Otto Friedländer

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Otto Friedländer (born March 31, 1889 in Vienna , † July 20, 1963 in Waidhofen an der Thaya , Austria ) was an Austrian writer and pacifist .

Life

Otto Friedlander first attended the Vienna Schottengymnasium and then studied in Vienna law . He then completed an art and literature degree in Grenoble and Oxford . In 1913 he returned to Vienna and had to serve as an officer in the Kaiserjäger in the Dolomites during the First World War . He then worked as a civil servant (among other things, he was secretary of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce ) and writer in Vienna.

pacifism

Otto Friedländer was a staunch pacifist and founded the Austrian League of Nations and later the Austrian League for the United Nations . He was also instrumental in founding the Austrian Peace Society (which was founded in 1890 by Bertha von Suttner ).

Publications

  • Graduation from 1907 . Ed. Styria, 1963
  • Clouds threaten over Vienna. Life and morals from the years before the First World War. Ring Verlag, 1949
  • The last splendor of the fairytale city - Vienna around 1900 . Molden, Vienna 1948, ISBN 385485076X

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