Richard Elector

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Richard Kurfürst (born December 17, 1909 in Vienna , † April 25, 1991 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist. He also published under the pseudonym Richard West .

Life

From April 3 to 30, 1960, the Arbeiter-Zeitung , the central organ of Austrian Social Democracy, published its report on the days of the struggle for Vienna in April 1945 and the efforts of the ... resistance movement every day except Mondays under the title Als Wien in Flammen To save Vienna from destruction.

In the fall of 1960, Kurfürst summarized the series in an 80-page brochure that was published by the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions under the same title . The brochure's subtitle was The Great Remembrance Report of the April Days of 1945 .

In the brochure were u. a. Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach during the shooting training of Buben (p. 17), Albertinaplatz and the Schottentor after the bombing (p. 17), the lines of attack in the Battle of Vienna (p. 25 and 57), the damaged Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke (p. 29 ), the resistance officers Carl Szokoll and Ferdinand Käs (p. 33), the plan of the Vienna fortress (p. 41), the burning Vienna State Opera (p. 45) and the burning St. Stephen's Cathedral (p. 53), which were used by Nazi Executed officers Karl Biedermann , Alfred Huth and Rudolf Raschke , killed for Austria on April 8, 1945 (p. 61), as well as State Chancellor Karl Renner ( Provisional State Government Renner 1945 ) and Mayor Theodor Körner ( City Senate Körner I ) on April 29, 1945 pictured on their way to the takeover of the parliament building by the Red Army (p. 69). Additional historical images were used in newspaper articles in April 1960.

According to the Vienna History Wiki, the Elector was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1970, the City of Vienna Prize for Journalism in 1973 and in 1984 (presented in 1985) the Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna .

Elector was buried on May 7, 1991 in the Ottakringer Friedhof in a grave dedicated to the duration of the cemetery.

Own works

  • When Vienna was on fire. The great memory report about the April days of 1945 ( Current Problems of Our Time , No. 7/8), Verlag des Österreichischer Arbeiterunionsbundes, Vienna 1960, 82 pp.
  • With Helmut Krebs (text) and Franz Stadlmann (photos): The new Vienna. A city with a conscience. Illustrated by Rudolf Angerer . Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1960, 1962, 170 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Kurfürst in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Elector, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES West, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1991
Place of death Vienna