Emil Löbl (February 5, 1863, in Vienna – August 26, 1942, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer and journalist.
Life
Born into a Jewish family, Löbl was the son of Isak Löbl (Herzl) and Rosalie Löbl (Neumann).
Like his older brother Leopold (1844-1907), he studied law at the University of Vienna and received his Dr. jur. degree in 1891. During his studies he was active as a journalist in the Reichsrätlichen Stenografenbüro from 1882.
From 1893 to 1898 he served in the k.k. Council of Ministers, and from 1895 as Ministerial Vice-Secretary.
He was deputy editor-in-chief at the ''Wiener Zeitung'' and from 1909 editor-in-chief. In 1917 Löbl became editor-in-chief of the NWT (''
Neues Wiener Tagblatt''), whose circulation he was able to increase substantially. In March 1938, as Austria prepared to merge with
Nazi Germany
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in the
Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, ), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "German Question, Greater Germany") arose after t ...
, he was fired.
Löbl was married to Gisela Gisa Basseches (June 10, 1870-1942). She was deported to the
Treblinka concentration camp
Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masov ...
and murdered by the Nazis in the
Holocaust
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.
Löbl died on August 26, 1942, at the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna,
which, under the Nazis, was the only hospital for Jews in Vienna.
Publications
* ''Kultur und Presse''. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903; Neuauflage 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-16030-3
** herausgegeben, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Wolfgang Duchkowitsch, Nomos-Verlag, Edition Reinhard Fischer, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3961-5
* ''Verlorenes Paradies. Erinnerungen eines alten Wieners''. Rikola, Wien 1924.
See also
*
The Holocaust in Austria
Jews were systematically persecuted, plundered, and killed by German and Austrian Nazis in the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945. Pervasive persecution of Jews was immediate after the German annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. An estimated 7 ...
*
Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, ), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "German Question, Greater Germany") arose after t ...
*
Austrian newspapers
*
Unser Wien
References
External links
Certified Award in re Accounts of Emil Löbl(PDF; 109 kB)
* Andreas Hepp
''Netzwerke der Medien: Medienkulturen und Globalisierung'' S. 34
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1863 births
1942 deaths
Austrian male writers
Austrian journalists
Austrian Jews
Writers from Austria-Hungary