Otto Schulmeister

Otto Schulmeister (born 1 April 1916 in Vienna, died 10 August 2001 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist, who was described as the doyen of Austrian journalism.^[1] He was editor-in-chief of Die Presse from 1961 to 1976 and its publisher from 1976 to 1989.^[2] He was the father of former ORF correspondent Paul Schulmeister. It was revealed in 2009 that he worked for the CIA from the 1960s.^[1]

Awards

• 1979: Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik
• 1989: Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize

Works

• Die Zukunft Österreichs, 1967
• Die Welt, die wir verlassen, 1970
• Die erschöpfte Revolution, 1978
• Der zweite Anschluß, 1979
• Ernstfall Österreich, 1995

Literature

• Theodor Venus (2007), "Schulmeister, Otto", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German) 23, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 685–686 , (full text online)

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.profil.at/articles/0916/560/239634/ex-presse-chef-dienste-cia-otto-schulmeister-geheimdienst
2. ↑ http://www.styria.com/de/styria/person_schulmeister.php

External links

• Literature by and about Otto Schulmeister in the German National Library catalogue
• Link to Otto Schulmeister in: Austria-Forum, the Austrian knowledge network – online  (at AEIOU)