Richard Schüller (KPÖ)

Richard Schüller (born April 30, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 5, 1957 in Linz ) was an Austrian journalist and party functionary of the KPÖ.

Life

In 1916/17 Richard Schüller was part of an illegal middle school student movement against the war policy of the Austro-Hungarian government. On November 3, 1918, he took part in the founding of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), a few months later he was elected secretary of the newly founded Communist Youth Association KJVÖ . In 1919 he was a delegate at the founding congress of the Communist Youth International (KJI) in Berlin and first worked as head of the KJI's south-east office, which was based in Vienna, then as a member of the executive and as secretary of the KJI. He worked for the organization in various European countries. In addition to Willi Munzenberg , he initially represented an autonomous course of the KJI vis-à-vis the Comintern , then swung to the course of the Comintern at the 2nd KJI Congress in Moscow. He then became a member of the Secretariat and the Executive Committee of the KJI. From 1921 to 1928, Schüller took part in the meetings of the EKKI alternating with the chairman of the youth association from the Soviet Union . At the EKKI plenum in 1928 he was even a member of the Presidium.

Schüller then left youth work and in 1928 became editor-in-chief of the central organ of the KPÖ, Die Rote Fahne . After the party was banned, he fled to Czechoslovakia in Prague in 1934 . There he edited the “Green Book” - a compilation of charges against the “green fascist dictatorship” of the February putsch . Schüller was arrested and expelled in the CSR; he then went to Moscow, where he worked as a journalist. After 1941 he became an editor alongside Walter Fischer at the propaganda broadcaster “ Radio Moscow for Austria”.

Schüller returned to Austria after the end of the war in November 1945 and worked in the editorial office of the party newspaper Volksstimme . He was appointed editor-in-chief of the KPÖ organ “Neue Zeit” for Upper Austria and a member of the secretariat of the Upper Austrian KPÖ provincial management. From 1949 Schüller was a member of the Central Committee of the KPÖ.

Fonts (selection)

• Economic situation and economic struggle of the young workers . Berlin: Verlag der Jugendinternationale, 1923
• Communist youth and war . Berlin: Verlag der Jugendinternationale, 1923
• World program of the revolutionary working-class youth in the struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat , in: The program of the Communist Youth International of 1928 . Facsimile reprint. Frankfurt am Main: Red Star, 1971
• History of the Communist Youth International, Volume 1: Richard Schüller, From the Beginnings of the Proletarian Youth Movement to the Foundation of the KJI . Berlin: Verlag der Jugendinternationale, 1929/31
• with Heinz Willmann : Austria. European fire source . ("Green Paper"). Zurich, 1934

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 671

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Schüller in the catalog of the German National Library As of 2019, the collection of publications in the German National Library is unadjusted.
• Literature by and about Richard Schüller (KPÖ) in the bibliographic database WorldCat , unadjusted
• Richard Schüller (1901-1957) , short biography at KPÖ (2007).