Maximilian Reich

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Maximilian Reich (born June 18, 1882 in Hungarian Wieselburg ; died March 26, 1952 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sports journalist .

Life

Maximilian Reich was born in 1882 as the son of a rabbi and came to Vienna with his family in 1890. Reich was a passionate soccer player and one of the first sports journalists in Austria. He worked u. a. for Das Kleine Blatt and for Football Sunday . He was also President of the Austrian Amateur Boxing Association.

As a Jew , he was arrested on March 15, 1938, shortly after Austria was " annexed " to Hitler's Germany , and taken to the Dachau concentration camp at the beginning of April 1938 on the so-called Prominent Transport. On September 23, 1938 he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was released on October 1, 1938. For this he was forced to emigrate in November 1938. He came to England via Belgium with his wife Emilie , his daughters Gertraude and Henriette followed in 1939 on a Kindertransport . There he wrote a report about his imprisonment in the concentration camp, but could not find a publisher for it. In 1940/41 he was interned on the Isle of Man . In 1942 he worked for the BBC 's German Service .

After the end of the war he returned to Vienna in 1946. He founded Wiener Montag and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Later he was a journalist for the world press .

The previously unprinted reports Die Mörderschule and PostScriptum zu Buchenwald were published in 2007 by his daughter Henriette Mandl, together with a report by his wife. His other daughter Gertraude also became an author and married the journalist Hugo Portisch .

Honors

  • In 1947, Reich was made an honorary member by the Austrian Professional Boxing Association.
  • In 2006, a Viennese council committee decided to designate a traffic area in Stammersdorf in Maximilian-Reich-Weg .

Published posthumously

  • Maximilian Reich, Emilie Reich, Henriette Mandl: Two witnesses mouth. Lost manuscripts from 1938 Vienna - Dachau - Buchenwald. Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-901602-30-6 .

literature

  • Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Rudolf Leo: “dachaureif” - The Austrian transport from Vienna to the Dachau concentration camp on April 1, 1938. Ed .: Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance and Central Austrian Research Center for Post-War Justice. Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-901142-75-8 , p. 221 f.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b list of estates - M. Reich. In: Directory of artistic, scientific and cultural-political legacies in Austria. Austrian National Library , March 2009, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b A manuscript from 1938 that was believed to be lost . In: oe1.orf.at. March 13, 2018, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ General assembly of the amateur boxing association. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , September 2, 1931, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst
  4. ^ Publication of Maximilian Reich's concentration camp memoirs. National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism , accessed on April 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb : Hugo Portisch's memoirs: Contemporary history worth reading: "It was always exciting" by Hugo Portisch. In: falter.at . 2015, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ General Assembly of the OeBV. In:  Austrian Volksstimme. Central organ of the Communist Party of Austria , January 30, 1947, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ovs
  7. ^ Maximilian-Reich-Weg in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungarian Wieselburg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1952
Place of death Vienna