Career
Julius Deutsch founded the "Schutzbund" in 1923 as an answer to the paramilitary organization "Heimwehr" (Home Guard), which was ideologically related to the Christian Social Party. He remained its leader until its destruction in 1934. Schutzbund members were primarily recruited out of the "Deutschösterreichische Volkswehr" (German-Austrian People"s Guard).
lieutenant had been organized by Deutsch himself as Under Secretary of State in the Department of Armed Forces (November 1918 until March 1919) and as Secretary of State in the Department of Armed Forces (March 1919 until October 1920).
After the defeat of the Republican Guard during the Austrian Civil War of 1934 and the following ban on the Social Democrats, he fled to the city of Brünn in Czechoslovakia. From 1936 until 1939 Deutsch fought as General of the Republican troops in the Spanish Civil War.
1939 he moved to Paris and worked for the foreign representation of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). He returned to Austria in 1946.
Since 1951 Deutsch was married to Adrienne Thomas, a writer
After his death, a Vienna apartment complex "Julius-Deutsch-Hof" was named in his honor. Julius Deutsch was also an uncle of Karl Deutsch, a renowned German-American social and political scientist
