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
The Neues Wiener Tagblatt was a daily newspaper published in Vienna from 1867 to 1945. It was one of the highest-circulation newspapers in Austria before 1938.
History
The newspaper was founded by Eduard Mayer as a successor to the Wiener Journ ...
''), whose circulation he was able to increase substantially. In March 1938, as Austria prepared to merge with
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
in the
Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.
The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
, he was fired.
Löbl was married to Gisela Gisa Basseches (June 10, 1870-1942). She was deported to the
Treblinka concentration camp
Treblinka () was an extermination camp, 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 Masovian Voivodeship. The camp ...
and murdered by the Nazis in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
.
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 The Holocaust in Austria was the systematic persecution, plunder and extermination of Jews by German and Austrian Nazis from 1938 to 1945. An estimated 65,000 Jews were murdered and 125,000 forced to flee Austria as refugees.
Jews in Austria befor ...
*
Anschluss
The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.
The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
*
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