!!!Funder, Friedrich

Funder, Friedrich, b. Graz (Styria), Nov. 1, 1872, 
d. Vienna, May 19, 1959, Catholic publicist, 1896 editor, 1902 
editor-in-chief, 1905-1938 editor of a Christian Social daily 
newspaper in Vienna, the  "Reichspost". Belonged to a group of people 
around Franz Ferdinand, the successor to the throne  Franz Ferdinand, 
and was adviser to the Federal Chancellor I.  Seipel. From 1935-1938 
he was a member of the State Council and became chairman of the 
Austrian Society of Journalistic Studies. Arrested on March 13, 1938 
and detained in the Dachau concentration camp until Nov. 11, 1939. 
Later detained in Flossenbuerg, arrested several times during World 
War Two. In 1945 founded the Catholic weekly newspaper "  Furche, 
Die", which he published until 1959.

!Works
Vom Gestern ins Heute, 1952; Aufbruch zur christl. 
Sozialreform, 1953; Als Oe. den Sturm bestand, 1957.

!Literature
H. Pfarrhofer, F. F., ein Mann zw. Gestern und 
Morgen, 1978.



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