Josef Podlipnig
Josef Podlipnig (born June 21, 1902 in Klagenfurt ) worked as a party functionary of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in Carinthia after the First World War . After the party was banned in 1934, he followed his party friend Joseph Buttinger to Vienna . When he took over the leadership of the Revolutionary Socialists (RS) in 1935 , he became its deputy. Before the “ Anschluss ” of Austria, he fled abroad with Buttinger, where at the end of March 1938 the RS management committee was merged with the foreign office of the Austrian Social Democrats (ALÖS) to form the foreign representation of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). Podlipnig left AVOES in 1940 in a dispute with Otto Leichter and Oscar Pollak . He emigrated to the USA under the name of Josef Moll .
literature
- Werner Röder and Herbert A. Strauss (management and editing): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life . Saur, Munich 1980, ISBN 0-89664-101-5 .
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| SURNAME | Podlipnig, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moll, Josef (name from 1940) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian party functionary of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1971 |