Otto Molden

Otto Molden ( born March 13, 1918 in Vienna, † 15 June 2002, Paphos, Cyprus) was an Austrian resistance fighter and cultural politicians.

Life

Otto Molden is a son of Ernst Molden and Paula of Preradović. He studied in Vienna Political Sciences. In 1938 he founded the national leadership of the Grey Freikorps, a school and student body of which he was a member since the early 1930s and actively resisted Adolf Hitler.

However, he was drafted after a few arrests the Wehrmacht. In 1944 he defected and was actively involved in the establishment of the resistance group O5 and fled as his brother Fritz in Switzerland. Towards the end of the war he had also connect to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ).

In 1945 he founded the European Forum Alpbach under the name International University Weeks of the Austrian College together with the philosophy lecturer Simon Moser. In 1960 he founded the Austrian European Federalist Party, the 1963 former resistance fighters and retired Gendarmerie General Joseph Kimmel nominated as presidential candidate. On Kimmel accounted for in the presidential election four percent of the vote.

Otto Molden was married in first marriage to Laurence Dutoit ( soloist at the Vienna State Opera ). From this marriage two children come. Later he was married to the cultural journalist Koschka Hetzer. Otto Molden was buried in his parents' grave at Vienna's Central Cemetery.

Works

• Alpbach - the invisible generation
• The call of conscience. The Austrian War of Independence 1938-45, 1958.
• Odyssey of my life and the foundation of Europe in Alpbach, 2001.