Moriz Benedikt


Moriz Benedikt , was a long-time editor of Neue Freie Presse and a powerful figure in Austrian politics and society.
Raised in a Jewish family in Krasice, he was the magazine's subeditor from 1872 to 1880, then associate editor and editor-in-chief from 1908 to the day he died.
The satirist Karl Kraus was a persistent critic of Benedikt and his paper, i.a., for their aggressive militaristic stance in the wake of World War I.
He died in Vienna.