| LC control no. | nb2015015122 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pohl, Otto, 1872-1940 |
| Associated country | Austria France Soviet Union |
| Associated place | Vienna (Austria) Moscow (Russia) |
| Birth date | 1872-03-28 |
| Death date | 1940-05-10 |
| Place of birth | Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Vaison-la-Romaine (France) |
| Field of activity | Law Journalism Political science Diplomacy |
| Affiliation | Austria. Ministerium des Àˆussern |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Editors Politicians Diplomats |
| Found in | Moskauer Rundschau, 11 May 1929: p.1 (editor: Otto Pohl) German Wikipedia, viewed 7 Aug. 2015 (Otto Pohl; born 28 March 1972 in Prague; died 10 May 1940 in Vaison-la-Romaine; an Austrian socialist journalist, publicist, politician and ambassador; doctor of law; studied law and political science at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague; member of the Social Democratic Party and the Association of Young Workers, Verband jugendlicher Arbeiter; correspondent for Victor Adler's Arbeiter-Zeitung in Prague from 1895, then, from 1897, the Czech-German monthly magazine The Academy, Die Akademie; settled in Vienna in 1898 as editor of Arbeiter-Zeitung until 1918; headed Public Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920; headed the Kriegsgefangenen- Repatrierungskommission for the repatriation of prisoners of war from 1920 to 1922; special envoy in Moscow from 1924 to 1927; returned to Vienna in 1929 and edited the German-language Moskauer Rundschau until 1934; lived in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France and Finland after the seizure of power by the Schuschnigg-Regime; joined Vladimir Poliakov's Pariser Tageblatt in 1937; fled to the unoccupied south of France after the German occupation of France in 1940; he committed suicide on 10 May 1940 with his partner Margaret Schwarz) |
| Associated language | ger |
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