Julius Braunthal
Julius Braunthal ( born May 5, 1891 in Vienna, † April 28, 1972 in Teddington, England) was during the period between the First and Second World War, a social democratic journalist and Austria after 1945 and an official witness to the labor movement.
Life
Braunthal that was active before 1914 in the Social Democratic Workers' Party ( SDAP ), was founded in 1924 editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, served from 1927 to 1934 as editor of the popular daily newspaper The Little Leaf and since 1929 as editor of the picture magazines The cuckoo.
Braunthal was arrested in February 1934 and imprisoned for a year in detention camp Wollersdorf. After his release he left Austria and lived first in Belgium and from 1938 in England.
After 1945 was Braunthal Secretary of the Committee of the International Socialist Conference ( Comisco, 1949-1951 ) and 1951 to 1956 he served as secretary of the Socialist International, he co-founded. Even in his later years Braunthal was active as a writer. Among others, he dedicated the quasi-religious aspects of Red Vienna during the interwar period his attention.
Works
- The workers' councils in German Austria. Vienna 1919.
- The Vienna July Days 1927.Wien 1927.
- 40 years May 1 Vienna 1929.
- Festschrift for the second Workers' Olympiad. Vienna 1931.
- Need Germany survive? . London 1943.
- In Search of the Millennium. Gollancz, London, 1945. German Franziska Schulz: In Search of the Millennium, Nest- Verlag, Nuremberg 1948.