Ernst Kirchweger was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria but turned Communist by 1934 where he risked his life as an activist in illegal trade unions during the reigns of the Fatherland Front (the far-right nationalist and corporatist ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria) and the Nazi Party.
Ernst Kirchweger was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria but turned Communist by 1934 where he risked his life as an activist in illegal trade unions during the reigns of the Fatherland Front (the far-right nationalist and corporatist ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria) and the Nazi Party.