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Marie Jahoda über ihre Verhaftung Wien, 27. November 1936 On a November morning, five officers of the State Police entered my office. I discovered much later that they had acted on an anonymous denunciation that the Forschungsstelle was a cover organisation for receipt of money from abroad for the underground movement. It was al most awkward day for being arrested. About 20 interviewers showed up during the day; also two active members of the movement [i.e. Revolutionäre Sozialisten Österreichs], Marie Schneider to deliver the Arbeiterzeitung and Fritz Jahnel to pass on information. Everybody was arrested, even Karl Bühler1 at his home. In addition, I was supposed to meet my mother [i.e. Betty Jahoda, née Propst] for an evening performance by Josephine Baker2 or was it Marian Anderson?3 I was not allowed to telephone though I pleaded because of my 4 pm arrangement to pick up Lotte [Lazarsfeld, married Bailyn]. Almost everybody was released after 3 days, Marie Schneider after 6 months, Jahnel after several months. We were all taken to the State Police Headquarters. I was isolated from the others and made to wait in a corridor. A man at the end of the corridor was released by a policeman; he came grinning toward me and said: I am free. I quickly whispered Edi [Jahoda]’s work address and said tell him where you saw me. It turned out he was a burglar [i.e. Johann Blažek], but he did what I told him. I could then only hope that he would and that Edi would take care of Lotte. In 1938, the chap was once more in prison. He wrote to me at Edi’s address telling me his pitiful life story.4Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 52.
1 Hier
irrte Marie Jahoda. Karl Bühler wurde nicht verhaftet, im
Gegenteil: Am 2. Juli 1937, dem Tag von Jahodas Verurteilung, wurde
Karl Bühler per Dekret des Bundesministeriums für
Unterricht »mit
der ehrenamtlichen Führung der österreichischen
Delegation«
am Internationalen Kongress für Philosophie in Paris betraut,
um »bei
den Verhandlungen dieses Kongresses die Interessen der
Unterrichtsverwaltung zu vertreten«.
Allerdings wurde Bühler im März 1938 durch das
nationalsozialistische Regime sechseinhalb Wochen in so genannte
Schutzhaft genommen.
Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
2 Joséphine
Baker (Saint Louis, Missouri 1906 –
Paris 1975):
Tänzerin und Sängerin; als Revuestar Sinnbild für die
»Wilden
Zwanzigerjahre«.
Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
3 Marian
Anderson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1897 – Portland, Oregon
1993): Sängerin. Anmerkung
Reinhard
Müller.
4 Johann
Blažek
schrieb Marie Jahoda mehrere Briefe, von denen der erste erhalten
gebliebene vom 10.
September
1949
stammt.
Der
Brief bezeugt auch, dass Marie Jahoda den Kontakt zu keiner sozialen
Gruppe scheute. Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
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