Karl Toman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karl Toman

Austrian politician

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1884

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1950

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Karl Toman

  • Karl Toman (2 January 1884 – 5 February 1950) was an Austrian politician and trade unionist.
  • Toman hailed from a working-class family.
  • He went on to become a metal industry worker.Toman joined the Social Democratic Labour Party of Austria in 1898.
  • In the run-up to the First World War, Toman served as secretary of the Goldsmiths' Trade Union.
  • He was taken as a prisoner of war in Russia, and went on to fight on the Soviet side in the Russian Civil War.
  • Toman becoming a leading figure in the Communist Party of Austria.
  • He served as general secretary of the party for a brief period in 1920.
  • He belonged to the party leadership until 1924.
  • Toman represented the Communist Party of Austria at the second (1920) and third congresses (1921) of the Communist International.
  • He took part in the fifth congress of the Communist International in 1924 as a non-voting delegate, representing of the inner-party minority in Austria.
  • He was expelled from the party on August 31, 1924.In August 1925 he was readmitted to the Communist Party as a member.
  • He worked with the Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern), having been appointed secretary of the Trade Union Sector of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1928.
  • At the Profintern congress of 1930, held in Moscow, Toman was elected to the central council of the international body.
  • He moved to Moscow, working as instructor at the Organizational Department of Profintern.
  • Toman relocation to the Soviet Union was seen as a way of resolving the fractional frictions inside the Austrian Communist Party.In the Soviet Union, Toman was accused of mismanagement of funds.
  • In September 1931 he was sacked from Profintern.
  • He was given a new employment at a sailor's club in Leningrad, politically demoted.
  • Having returned to Austria in 1932, Toman was finally stripped of his Communist Party membership.Toman joined the Revolutionary Socialists in 1934.
  • He was detained at the Wöllersdorf prison camp, but was released in 1935.
  • After Anschluss (German annexation of Austria in 1938) Toman was threatened with imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp.
  • He was however able to negotiate a release from captivity, citing his expulsion from the Communist Party.
  • He undertook a loyalty oath to the Third Reich.
  • In April 1938 German authorities appointed him as a member of the local administration of Eichgraben.
  • In January 1940 he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and SA.Toman was captured by Soviet troops in May 1945.
  • He died in a Soviet Gulag on February 5, 1950.
  • There are very few documented cases of former Austrian communists having joined the NSDAP, Toman being the most prominent amongst them.
  • There is little written about Toman's political journey, but speculation points towards blunt opportunism.

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