Titel	detailed insights into Viennese life through his Viennese wife
Labels
ID	5234
Type	None

Collection(s)	manually created entity
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/5234/
Notes	Shirer married a Viennese lady, Theresia Stiberitz, on 31 January 1931. Shirer was integrated into Viennese life through his spouse, the daughter of a low-level official in the Austrian civil service, who was intimately familiar with the milieu. That Shirer was able to render so many particularities of the Viennese social scene in the early thirties and his encounters was also a consequence of this relationship. His report on the achievements of the Social Democrats in Vienna by providing housing for the poor and their success in municipal elections in 1932 (23 April 1932 in the Chicago Tribune) prompted a rebuff by Robert McCormick, the conservative owner of the Chicago paper, and two blunders in Shirer’s reports for the paper accelerated the erosion of his position, eventually leading to the abrupt discontinuation of his contract in October 1932.