Viktor Reimann

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Viktor Reimann (born January 25, 1915 in Vienna ; † October 7, 1996 there ) was an Austrian journalist, writer and politician ( VdU ).

Life

After attending grammar school, Reimann studied history and German language and literature and received his doctorate in 1939. While he was initially involved in the then illegal NSDAP , he later turned to the resistance . Together with the Augustinian canon Roman Karl Scholz , Reimann founded a resistance group in autumn 1938, which mainly consisted of members of the Catholic-Conservative camp and Scholz's students. Said the group initially German freedom movement , it was in September 1939 in Austrian Freedom Movement and in 1940 freedom movement Austria renamed. It had up to 300 members, cooperated with other resistance groups and Western Allied agencies, and focused on nonviolent, propaganda resistance. The group was broken up due to a complaint from the spy and Burgtheater actor Otto Hartmann to the Secret State Police . In 1940 or 1941 he was arrested and sentenced to prison after two years of pre- trial detention. Reimann then sat in Straubing prison until 1945 .

After the end of National Socialist rule, Reimann became editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten in July 1945 and deputy editor-in-chief that same year. He held this position until 1948. In addition, Reimann became politically active again and was a co-founder of the Association of Independents (VdU). From its establishment on September 1, 1949, he was chairman of the Salzburg regional group, head of the press department and from 1949 to 1956 a member of the National Council .

In the course of the Vienna Brecht boycott , Reimann agitated against Bertolt Brecht and his plays and headlined in "Die Neue Front": "Who smuggled the communist horse into German Rome?" He wrote: "Bert Brecht's naturalization shows how the overzealousness of individual intellectual socialists and the ignorance and weakness of the cultural rulers of the People's Party are undermining our country communistically and how the Americans are still financing the spiritual Bolshevization of Austria." ("Die Neue Front") , October 13, 1951)

In addition, Reimann remained active as a journalist: He was editor-in-chief of the VdU daily newspaper, the Österreichische Allgemeine Zeitung , which appeared from December 1, 1949 and which was discontinued in April 1950 for cost reasons. From its founding on February 25, 1949 to 1956, he was also editor-in-chief of the VdU weekly newspaper Neue Front . In the Neue Front there were regular articles that criticized and defamed the work of the people's courts in the prosecution of Nazi crimes, including by Reimann himself. The Neue Front was confiscated on January 9, 1953 by court order for incitement, because the VdU- National Council member Helfried Pfeifer reacted sharply in an article to the rejection of a pardon for convicted Nazi victims.

From 1956 to 1960 Reimann was press chief of the federal theater administration . From 1970 he was a columnist at the Kronen Zeitung , from 1972 to 1974 editor-in-chief of the Upper Austrian edition and from 1974 to 1987 head of the culture department in Vienna.

Reimann's honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Reimann's writings, especially his series Die Juden in Österreich in the Kronen-Zeitung in 1974, were the subject of anti-Semitism research.

In 1980 Reimann published a history of the Third Camp in the Second Republic under the title The Third Force in Austria . Wolfgang Purtscheller calls it an "extremely apologetic and precisely because of that very interesting book about the reconstruction of the 'national camp'".

Viktor Reimann was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 178).

Works (selection)

  • Innitzer. Cardinal between Hitler and Rome . New edition. Amalthea, Vienna, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-85002-268-4
  • Too big for Austria. Seipel and Bauer in the fight for the First Republic . Molden , Vienna et al. 1968
  • Dr. Joseph Goebbels . Molden, Wien et al. 1971. New edition 1976 ISBN 3-217-05018-5 , French translation published by Flammarion- Verlag, Paris 1973
  • Bruno Kreisky. The portrait of a statesman . Molden, Vienna et al. 1972, ISBN 3-217-00300-4
  • The third force in Austria . Molden, Vienna et al. 1980
  • Five unusual conversations . Verlag Carl Ueberreuter , Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-8000-3380-1
  • Conductors, stars and bureaucrats - the glory and decline of the Viennese opera ensemble . Hans Deutsch Verlag, Vienna 1961.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 : Scholz Roman (Karl) , Online Edition, ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4
  2. Viktor Reimann , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1951 from October 22, 1951 Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 42/1996, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 30, 2012 ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. Entry on Viktor Reimann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  4. ^ Profile , August 1, 2011
  5. Salzburg online - city history: December 1949  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-salzburg.at  
  6. Salzburg online - city history: February 1949  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-salzburg.at  
  7. www.nachkriegsjustiz.at: Discussions about people's jurisdiction. Part 1: 1945 to 1949
  8. Salzburg online - city history: January 1953  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-salzburg.at  
  9. z. B .: Heinz Wassermann: Spit on? Some remarks on the media culture of remembrance (PDF; 187 kB) Information from the Society for Political Enlightenment No. 63, December 1999
  10. Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 418