Vincenz Ludwig Ostry

Vincenz Ludwig Ostry 1954

Vincenz Ludwig Ostry (born July 19, 1897 in Vienna ; † November 28, 1977 there ) was an Austrian journalist .

Life

Ostry, who came from a monarchist family , was determined by the activity and the will of his father, a civil servant in the Austro-Hungarian Bank , in his immediate career choice: After leaving school, he began an apprenticeship as a banker and worked after the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , from 1919 to 1923 as a bank clerk. In parallel to his banking career, Ostry studied law and political science at the University of Vienna , took subjects at the Export Academy , today's business university , and worked as a schoolboy and student for various newspapers and magazines.

From 1923 he was initially employed by the newspaper Die neue Wirtschaft . He then made his journalistic career leap at the Wiener Montagblatt Der Morgen , where he worked as an editor from 1924 to 1934. In accordance with his experience and training, he initially took care of the financial and commercial part, and over time Ostry came to the political part of the newspaper. By then he was part of the team at Der Wiener Tag , whose chief editor of the political section he was from 1934 to 1938. In March 1938 he was by the Nazi rulers dismissed and immediately to the Gestapo Vienna in protective custody taken. He remained in protective custody until September 1938, after which he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp , from where he returned to Vienna in April 1939. Until the end of the war, Ostry earned his living as a representative and researcher at a commercial information agency and then as an employee at Compass Verlag .

From May 1945 he was head of the news department of Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG), and in July of the same year he was also editor of foreign policy for the daily newspaper Neues Österreich . In 1945 he became press officer in the Ministry of Education at Federal Minister Ernst Fischer . Ostry climbed the next rung on the career ladder in September 1946 when he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Austria Press Agency (APA), a position he held until 1950.

From 1950 to 1954, Ostry was political director of the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting group , to whose program he contributed the series Prof. Vincenz Ludwig Ostry speaks about the world . From 1957 he was a consultant in the federal press service , in 1959 he became head of the press and information service in the presidential office under Federal President Adolf Schärf and, from 1965 until his retirement in 1966, Franz Jonas .

On December 3, 1965, Vincenz Ludwig Ostry, president of the journalists' union from 1946 to 1959 and first general secretary of the Concordia press club from November 16, 1958 , received the “optik-orbis” ring of honor (established in 1962).

Ostry was buried in an honorary grave at the Grinzinger Friedhof (grave site: group 20, row 4, number 11).

Works

• Commemorative mark of Federal President D. Adolf Schärf. Austrian State printing office, Vienna 1965, OBV .
• The most powerful man on earth. The US elects its President on November 5, 1968 . Europa-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 1968, OBV .

Awards, honors, prizes

• 1947 professional title professor
• 1950 Silver Medal of Honor from the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions
• 1960 Knight of the Royal Swedish Order of the North Star
• 1960 Commander of the Finnish Order of Lions
• 1961 Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
• 1961 Commander of the Royal Swedish North Star Order
• 1962 Grand Cross of Merit of the German Order of Merit
• 1963 professional title Hofrat
• 1963 Commander of the Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog
• 1963 Golden Badge of Honor of the Austrian League for the United Nations
• 1964 Austrian Olympic medal
• 1964 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav
• 1965 Grand Officer of the Thai Crown Order
• 1965 WIPA gold medal "Pro Merito"
• Commander of the Liberian Star of Africa
• Commander of the Iranian Tadj Order

literature

• Ostry, Vincenz Ludwig . Tagblattarchiv. Press review 1928–1997, OBV .
• Peter Sonnenberg: Media control during the Nazi era. A collective biographical analysis of selected journalists from the Viennese daily newspapers “Wiener Tag” and “Telegraf”, which were banned in 1938. Master thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2009. - Full text online (PDF; 793 kB) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sonnenberg: Media Control , p. 110.
2. ↑ ZDB -ID 2377692-4 .
3. ↑ OBV .
4. ↑ ZDB -ID 1122518-x .
5. ↑ Sonnenberg: Media Control , p. 71.
6. ↑ See work book Vincenz Ostry, Compass archive.
7. ↑ OBV .
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sonnenberg: Media Control , p. 72.
9. ^ Wolf Harranth: Broadcasting in Austria 1945-1955. (...) Farewell program red-white-red . In: dokufunk.org , Funk documentation archive , accessed on August 22, 2011.
10. ↑ November 16 . In: derstandard.at , November 16, 2008, accessed on August 22, 2011.
11. ^ Vienna 1965: Reports from December 1965. (…) December 3, 1965: Vienna's press photographers honored their friends (…) . In: wien.gv.at , Rathauskorrespondenz (Magistratsabteilung 53), accessed on August 21, 2011.
12. ↑ Grave sites dedicated to honor or taken into custody in the Grinzing cemetery. Status: July 19, 2011. - PDF online ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 22, 2011. 
13. ^ Vienna 1950: reports from January 1950 (…) 4.1.1950: Union jubilees of journalists . In: wien.gv.at , Rathauskorrespondenz (Magistratsabteilung 53), accessed on August 22, 2011.
14. ↑ Prize winners - Prizes of the City of Vienna (accessed on February 9, 2017)

Web links

Commons : Vincenz Ludwig Ostry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franz Schuh : “Boys, it must have features!” Franz Schuh's experience with the radio medium. In: oe1.orf.at , August 13, 2004, accessed on August 22, 2011.

Remarks

1. ↑ The editor-in-chief of the apolitical section was Dr. Rudolf Kalmar junior (1900–1974).
2. ↑ Ostry was acquitted in the same year by an honorary councilor of the journalists' union from the accusation that emerged in 1953 that he had reported colleagues at the Gestapo interrogation in June 1938 and thus exposed them to persecution . - Sonnenberg: Medienprüfung , p. 71. The Gau-Akt created about Ostry , which could have brought clarification, was declared to have disappeared at the end of Ostry's career. According to the head of the section responsible for the matter , most of the essential (and possibly damaging) enclosures belonging to a copy of the file made in 1954 would have been requested by the Minister for the most part, but could not be found . - Sonnenberg: Medienkontrolle , p. 72. According to Sonnenberg, Medienkontrolle , p. 110, the question always remains, to what extent Ostry saved his head by betraying other journalists. Because it seems a little contradictory that the first editor-in-chief Rudolf Kalmar was interned in the concentration camp for so long and that his deputy, who was actually equal on the “Vienna Day”, was able to reintegrate into Nazi society so quickly .