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Karl Mandler

last name:
Mandler
first name:
Karl
born:
1905-01-01
affiliation:
NordtirolerIn
last change:
Wed Nov 04 13:58:24 UTC 2020
biography
Karl Mandler, son of the locomotive driver and the Christian worker Agnes Mandler, born 1905 in Graz, grew up in Tirol. At 16 he is already chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth Kufstein, later Social Democratic Party chairman and chairman of the Free Railway Union Kufstein, "Schutzbund" goes after the Civil War to the station, is released, joined the illegal Communist Party. He calls himself as feminists and recalls killed by the Nazis Adele Stürzl. He was arrested by police Schuschnigg and the Gestapo, Wehrmacht's 1942 and miss the "good soldier" of persecution. He falls into Russian captivity, he returned from the 1947th In 1989, he is expelled from the Communist Party. As Mandler 1997, his book on the history of the Austrian social democracy "lost years," writes that he is 91 years old. In an interview with Ruth Mann German 1999, he commented not only betrayed his political stance on the social democracy but warned to rethink, especially in terms of "debt policy.