Ludwig Bruegel

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Ludwig Brügel (born February 6, 1866 in Großmeseritsch , Austrian Empire ; died August 30, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was an Austrian journalist and historian of the Austrian labor movement.

Life

Ludwig Brügel came from a small family. He attended grammar school in Brno and joined the Austrian Social Democrats there in 1884. He began studying medicine in Vienna, which he broke off. He taught at various evening schools in Vienna, and his students included Franz Schuhmeier and Leopold Winarsky . Brügel became parliamentary correspondent for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and then worked for the Wiener Morgenzeitung.

When, after the end of the First World War, the Provisional National Assembly proclaimed the republic on November 12, 1918, Brügel was injured in the bombardment of parliament and lost an eye. Brügel was appointed press chief of the German-Austrian State Chancellery by the first Renner government at the end of 1918 , after which he became press chief in the Federal Chancellery . Its activity ended in 1920 when the Social Democrats left the government . He then worked again as a journalist.

Between 1922 and 1925 Brügel published a five-volume “History of Austrian Social Democracy”.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, Brügel was imprisoned as a social democrat for a period by the National Socialists. On August 13, 1942, he was deported as a Jew to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he died shortly afterwards of the conditions of detention.

His son Fritz Brügel escaped persecution by the National Socialists by fleeing to England.

History of the Austrian Social Democracy. Volume 5 (1925)

Fonts (selection)

  • From yesterday and today: social poems . Vienna: Self-published by the author, 1894.
  • Social legislation in Austria from 1848 to 1918: a historical Representation . Vienna: Deuticke, 1919
  • History of the Austrian Social Democracy. 1. From the Vormärz to the High Treason Trial in Vienna, July 1870 . Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1922
  • History of the Austrian Social Democracy. 2. The struggle against the International: attempts at organization (1870-1878) . Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1922
  • History of the Austrian Social Democracy. 3rd party quarrel, propaganda deed, agreement: (1878 to 1889) . Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1922
  • History of the Austrian Social Democracy. 4. Consolidation of the organization; from the privilege parliament to the Volkshaus: (1889 to 1907) . Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1923
  • History of the Austrian Social Democracy. 5. Hostility to Parliament and obstruction; World war; Disintegration of the monarchy: (1907-1918) . Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1925
  • Documents of the 1848 reaction . Vienna: Publ. Of the Wiener Volksbuchh., 1922.

literature

  • Brügel, Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 201-203.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 179f. (Entry 1344).
  • Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. KGSaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 143

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Activities in the press according to Bruno Jahn: The German-language press , although it is unclear which “Wiener Morgenzeitung” is meant.
personal data
SURNAME Brügel, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and historian of the Austrian labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Großmeseritsch , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto