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Austrian social democratic politician and founder of the anti-fascist Austrian Schutzbund

Dr.Julius Deutsch
Born (1884-02-02)February 2, 1884Lackenbach, Austria-Hungary
Died January 17, 1968(1968-01-17) (aged 83)Vienna, Austria
Resting place Grinzing Cemetery
Education Law
Alma mater University of Vienna
Occupation Printer
Employer Arbeiter-Zeitung
Organization Republikanischer Schutzbund
Known for Promoting working-class culture through sports
Notable work Sport und Politik
Political party Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria
Movement Socialism
Board member of Socialist Workers' Sport International
Spouses Josefine Schall Maria Herzmansky Adrienne Thomas

Julius Deutsch (February 2, 1884, Lackenbach, Austria-Hungary – January 17, 1968, Vienna, Austria) was a politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, member of Parliament between 1920 and 1933, and co-founder and leader of the Social Democrat militia Republikanischer Schutzbund ("Republican Defense Association").

Leader of the Schutzbund

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Julius Deutsch founded the Schutzbund in 1923 as an answer to the paramilitary organization Heimwehr ("Home Guard"), which was ideologically related to the Christian Social Party. He remained its leader until its destruction in 1934.

Schutzbund members were primarily recruited out of the Deutschösterreichische Volkswehr ("German-Austrian People's Guard").[1] It had been organized by Deutsch himself as Under Secretary of State in the Department of Armed Forces (November 1918 until March 1919) and as Secretary of State in the Department of Armed Forces (March 1919 until October 1920).

After the defeat of the Republican Guard during the Austrian Civil War of 1934 and the following ban on the Social Democrats, he fled to the city of Brno in Czechoslovakia.

From 1936 until 1939, Deutsch fought as a general of the Republican troops in the Spanish Civil War.

1939 he moved to Paris and worked for the foreign representation of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). After the occupation of France by National Socialist Germany, Deutsch, who was of Jewish descent, had to emigrate again, this time to the United States of America. He returned to Austria in 1946. Deutsch was also the President of the Socialist Workers' Sport International.[2]

Deutsch was married three times: to Josefine Schall, the mother of Grethe/Gretl Deutsch, to Maria Herzmansky, mother of Hedwig (Hexi) Kramer, and to the novelist Adrienne Thomas.

Julius-Deutsch-Hof in Döbling

After his death, a Vienna apartment complex Julius-Deutsch-Hof was named in his honor.

Julius Deutsch was also an uncle of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a renowned German-American social and political scientist; the grandfather of Canadian economist Gerald Karl Helleiner;[3] and great-grandfather of Canadian political scientist Eric Helleiner.

Cover of Der Bürgerkrieg in Österreich by Deutsch, 1934

  1. ^ Yidishe Bilder no. 13 (1937), cited in the Ghetto Fighters' House archives
  2. ^ Wheeler, Robert F. Organized Sport and Organized Labour: The Workers' Sports Movement, in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 13, No. 2, Special Issue: Workers' Culture (Apr., 1978), pp. 191-210
  3. ^ Pratt, Cranford; Culpeper, Roy (2016). "Gerald K. Helleiner: a global citizen" in Global Development Fifty Years after Bretton Woods: Essays in Honour of Gerald K. Helleiner, ed. Albert Berry, Roy Culpeper, and Frances Stewart. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 9. ISBN 9781349255702.