Richard Riedl

Richard Riedl (born December 8, 1865 in Vienna ; † March 9, 1944 there ) was an Austrian economic politician and diplomat .

As the son of an official of the tobacco monopoly, studied Riedl after attending high school in Vienna where law . During his studies, he became in 1886 a member of the Viennese academic fraternity Albia , 1936 honorary member of the fraternity Arminia Graz and the fraternity Teutonia Prague .

Riedl initially worked in the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce. In 1908 he founded the German Club . In the Austro-Hungarian monarchy he was section head in the Ministry of Commerce from 1909 . In the Renner I state government , he was Undersecretary of State in the State Office for Trade, Industry and Commerce and State Office for War and Transitional Economics. From 1921 to 1925 he was envoy of the First Republic of Austria in the Weimar Republic ; 1924 to 1925, from Berlin , also Austrian envoy to Finland . In 1924 he founded the Central European Business Association. He was considered an expert for regional economic unions and for economic questions in Southeast Europe.

From 1921 to 1925 he was the Austrian envoy in Berlin . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, Riedl was appointed acting head of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce for a short time and then on the advisory board of the Reich Chamber of Commerce .

The mayor of Vienna at the time, Hanns Blaschke , gave his funeral speech .

Fonts

• Possible ways to a European economic community. in: Hanns Heimann (Ed.): European Customs Union. Contributions to problem and solution. Berlin, 1926. pp. 181-187.
• The United States of Europe as a constructive problem. in: Karl Christian von Loesch (Hrsg.): Bücher des Deutschtums. Vol. 2: State and Volkstum. Berlin, 1926. pp. 51-86.
• The most favored nation treatment in European trade agreements. Memorandum, the Economic Exclusion of the League of Nations and the International Chamber of Commerce presented by the Austrian Group of the International Chamber of Commerce. Vienna, 1928.
• The classification of the whole of Germany in international trade policy. in: The follow-up question in its cultural, political and economic significance. Vienna u. Leipzig, 1930.
• The main questions of the planned German-Austrian customs union. Berlin, 1931.
• The organization of the markets. in: Europäische Revue 8 (1932) , Vol. 2, pp. 389-411.
• Way to Europe. Thoughts on an economic alliance of European states. Memorandum 1944.

literature

• W. Filek-Wittinghausen:  Riedl, Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 143 f. (Direct links on p. 143 , p. 144 ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 73-74
• Gerald Brettner-Messler: Richard Riedl - a liberal imperialist. Biographical study of trade policy and Central European ideas in the monarchy and the First Republic. Diss., Vienna, 1998.
• Dietrich Eichholtz: "Ways to Debolschewisierung and enrussung des Ostraumes." Recommendations of the IG-Farben concern for Hitler in spring 1943. in: Yearbook for Economic History 1970.
• Otilia Simkova: Central Europe. Forging a Concept in Time and Space. Diss., London, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/1a1/adr/adrmr/kap1_6/para2_107.html
2. ↑ http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/oebl/oebl_R/Riedl_Richard_1865_1944.xml
3. ↑ Gerald Brettner-Messler : Richard Riedl - a liberal imperialist . Dissertation, Vienna, 1999

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludwig Moritz Hartmann	Austrian ambassador to Germany 1921–1925	Felix Frank