Otto Pohl
Otto Pohl (born March 28, 1872 in Prague , † May 10, 1940 in Vaison-la-Romaine ) was an Austrian socialist journalist, publicist, politician and ambassador .
Life
Otto Pohl was the son of the Prague banker Wilhelm Pohl. He studied law and political science at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, was a member of the Social Democrats and the Association of Young Workers . He received his doctorate in law .
From 1895 he was a correspondent for Victor Adlers Arbeiter-Zeitung in Prague . From 1897 he published the German-Czech monthly magazine Die Akademie . In 1898 he settled in Vienna, where he was editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1898 to 1918 . In August 1900 he married the socialist and women's rights activist Lotte Glas , with whom he had a daughter. From 1918 to 1920 he was in charge of public relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
From 1920 to 1922 he headed the POW Repatriation Commission and was then at the request of Lenin Ministre plénipotentiaire of the Republic of Austria in Moscow . From 1924 to 1927 he was envoy extraordinary to Moscow.
In 1927, he was by internal political conflicts in Austria in the retirement staggered. From 1929 to 1934 he published the German-language Moscow Rundschau in Vienna . After the Schuschnigg regime came to power , he stayed in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France and Finland.
In 1937 he became an employee of Vladimir Poliakov's Pariser Tageblatt . After the German occupation of France in 1940, he fled to the unoccupied southern France . He committed suicide on 10 May 1940 with his partner Margaret Black suicide .
In 1927 Pohl received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria .
Fonts
- The worker in the capitalist state and in socialist society , Vienna: Wiener Volksbuchh. Fire, 1902
literature
- Theodor Venus: Pohl, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 585 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus, German biographical encyclopedia : (DBE) - 2007 - 924 pp., P. 5
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich von Szápáry |
Austrian ambassador in Moscow from 1924 to 1927 |
Karl Waldbrunner |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohl, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1940 |
| Place of death | Vaison-la-Romaine |