Georg Scheuer Collection

Period (1937-) 1940-1949 (-1954)
Total size  30.95 m.
ConsultationNot restricted
User restriction A part of these papers is temporarily not available for consultation until February 2012

Biography

Real name: Georg Scheuer, called himself also Georges Scheuer; born in Vienna 1915, died in Vienna 1996; publicist; member of the Verband der Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend Deutschösterreichs (SAJDÖ); member of the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Österreichs (KJVÖ) 1931; one of the leading founders of the left oppositional Revolutionären Kommunisten Österreichs (RKÖ) 1935; imprisoned for his political activities in 1935; fled to Prague in 1936, maintained contacts with the Trotskyist Jiskra group; one of the defendants during the Vienna Trotskyist trial in 1937, convicted but received amnesty in 1938; emigrated to France; Austrian delegate at the foundation of the Fourth International in 1938; contributed to the Bulletin Oppositionnel; fled to Southern France in 1940; with members of Revolutionäre Kommunisten Deutschlands (RKD) he participated in the French resistance; contributed to Der Marxist and Spartakus 1943-1944; after the war he abandonned militant political activity, but closely monitored anti-Stalinist communist groups; became a journalist in Paris, contributed to several newspapers in France, Germany and Austria; married with Christa Scheuer-Weyl (1941-2006); returned to Austria at the end of his life.

Content

Documents, many of which appeared illegally, collected by Georg Scheuer and originating with the Fourth International and related groups, revolutionary communist groups and anarchist circles, mainly in Western Europe. Files consisting of correspondence (often anonymous or pseudonymous), manuscripts, typescripts, proceedings, reports, drafts, circulars, pamphlets, periodicals and press clippings, on the Karl Fischer Case 1945-1947, Bordigism 1943-1946, Carl Langer 1945, 1948-1949, the `Antoine' group 1942-1945, the RKD and the Communistes Révolutionnaires (CR) 1942-1946, the Organisation Communiste Révolutionnaire (OCR) 1941-1946, the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (PCI) 1943-1947 and the Revolutionair Communistische Partij (RCP) 1945-1954.

Historical documents, manuscripts, articles, texts which were earmarked for publication; files on the resistance group called 'Gruppe RK'; collection on the USSR and the Komintern.

Processing information

Inventory made by C. Hoskens of the first part (1.4 m)