Paul Friedländer (journalist)

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Paul Friedländer (born July 2, 1891 in Baden / Lower Austria ; † 1942 or 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German-Austrian politician ( KPÖ , KPD ) and journalist. He was a co-founder of the KPÖ and editor-in-chief of its first party newspaper.

Life

Paul Friedländer studied philosophy, sociology and art history at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1917. phil. received his doctorate. On July 10, 1915, he married Elfriede Friedländer (later Ruth Fischer ). The marriage was divorced in 1921.

At the end of 1918 he was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and, together with Franz Koritschoner, editor-in-chief of the party newspaper “Der Weckruf”, which was banned before the first edition was published. Friedländer then became the editor in charge of the successor organ “The Social Revolution”. He was elected a member of the KPÖ executive committee at three party congresses, initially from February to May 1919 and in March 1922 and March 1923 (until March 1924). In 1922 he was a delegate at the 4th World Congress of the Communist International . In 1926 he moved to Berlin, became a member of the KPD and, after being mediated by Ruth Fischer, became editor of Inprekorr . Later he also worked for “Welt am Abend”, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1933 at short notice.

After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Friedländer fled first to his home country Austria, then to Paris, where he worked in the KPD's foreign secretariat and was a member of the World Committee against War and Fascism . Internment followed in 1939, during which he distanced himself from the Hitler-Stalin Pact with a declaration of protest . In 1942 he was extradited and deported to Auschwitz, where he died.

On July 14, 1942, the Nazi administration revoked his doctorate. On May 15, 1955, the University of Vienna declared the withdrawal “null and void from the start”.

family

Paul and Elfriede Friedländer had a son, Friedrich Gerhart Friedländer (1917–2001). He emigrated to England and was - as FG Friedlander - mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Royal Society . His son, Paul Friedländer's grandson, the British artist Paul Friedlander, born in 1951, bears his name.

Paul Friedländer was married to Martha Jakob, with whom he had a son, for the second time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The details of the two biographical entries (see web links) differ from one another.
  2. ^ Paul Friedländer, entry in the memorial book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna
  3. ^ Art. Fischer, Ruth . In: Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten ( online in the biographical databases of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship , accessed on April 13, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian politician (KPÖ, KPD) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden / Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 1942 or 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp