Karl Tschuppik (26 June 1876 - 22 July 1937 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist, feuilleton, publicist and writer.
Born in Melnik, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic...ver maisKarl Tschuppik (26 June 1876 - 22 July 1937 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist, feuilleton, publicist and writer.
Born in Melnik, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic), he studied technical sciences at the Technical Universities of Zurich and Vienna. He worked as an editor for the Prague Tagblatt from 1898-1917 and published in numerous newspapers and magazines in Vienna and Berlin. His publications received great acclaim and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential Austrian publicists.
Tschuppik rejected national socialism, German nationalism as well as Austro-Fascism and was a frequent target for national-socialist propaganda. His name appeared on the first “Black List” published in 1933.
His other biographies include The Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1930) and Ludendorff: The Tragedy of a Military Mind (1932). He published a novel, Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause (A Son from a Good Home) in 1937, which was made into a film by the same name in 1989.
Tschuppik died in Vienna in 1937 aged 61.
CECIL JACKSON SQUIRE SPRIGGE (1896-1959), son of Sir Squire Sprigge, was born in London in 1896 and educated at Eton and Kings College Cambridge. In 1923 he joined the Manchester Guardian as Italian correspondent based in Rome. He left Italy for Berlin in 1929 but was recalled to England in the same year to take up the post of city editor, a role he was to remain in until 1939. He returned to the Guardian in 1953 as lead writer on foreign affairs. He died in London on 22 December 1959.ver menos