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Austrian Mauthausen Committee
The Austrian Mauthausen Committee is responsible for scientific and educational work concerning the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and its satellite camps in Austria. This association was founded in 1997 and is the subsequent organisation of the Austrian Concentration Camp Community Mauthausen. Definition The Mauthausen Committee defines itself as follows: :''"Our association is nonpartisan and nonreligious. We stand for a free and democratic society and for the protection of human rights for everybody, without regarding their nationality, political views or religious views. We are working to prevent every form of fascism, racism, Neo-Nazism, chauvinism and antisemitism."'' : Work With these sorts of standards, the Committee does work concerning the memorial of NS-dictatorship and the reprocessing of it. It focuses on work with young people and cares about educational and scientific maintenance of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its satellite camps. A European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 further Subcamp (SS), subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, St Georgen/Gusen, just a few kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp. The Mauthausen main camp operated from 8 August 1938, several months after the German annexation of Austria, to 5 May 1945, when it was liberated by the United States Army. Starting with the camp at Mauthausen, the number of subcamps expanded over time. In January 1945, the camps contained roughly 85,000 inmates. As at other Nazi concentration camps, the inmates at Mauthausen and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Hundstorfer
Rudolf Hundstorfer (19 September 1951 – 20 August 2019) was an Austrian Social Democratic Party of Austria, social democratic politician who served as president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB). Hundstorfer was from December 2008 to January 2016 the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (Austria), Federal Minister for Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection. Since 1966 Hundstorfer worked as civil servant for the City of Vienna (''Magistrat''). He graduated from the ''Bundesgymnasium'' for professionals in 1976 (''Matura''). The following year he graduated as an administration official (''Beamtenaufstiegsprüfung''). From the early 1970s he was active in the Union of Municipal Employees (GDG), of which he was chairman from May 2003 on. From 1990 he was a member of the Vienna City Council and the State Parliament, from 1995 also chairman of the local council. After Hundstorfer had been elected President of the ÖGB, he resigned from the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service and the Austrian Peace Service. He also is the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award, the Braunau Contemporary History Days and the inventor of the idea of the House of Responsibility regarding the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Studying and learning Maislinger studied law and political science in Salzburg and political science and eastern-European history in Vienna, with study visits in, amongst others, Frankfurt am Main and Innsbruck. During his studies in Salzburg, Maislinger advocated for Austrian participation in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz; Austrian president Rudolf Kirchschläger declined. Kirchschläger later acknowledged the value of Maislinger's proposal of civilian service for reconcili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Service Abroad
The Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit organization founded by Andreas Hörtnagl, Andreas Maislinger and Michael Prochazka in 1998, which sends young Austrians to work in partner institutions worldwide serving Holocaust commemoration in form of the Gedenkdienst, supporting vulnerable social groups and sustainability initiatives in form of the Austrian Social Service and realizing projects of peace within the framework of the Austrian Peace Service. Its services aim at the permanence of life on earth. The Austrian Service Abroad carries and promotes the idea of the House of Responsibility for the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in Braunau am Inn. The Austrian Service Abroad is the issuer of the annually conferred Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award. The program is funded by the Austrian government. Origin The Austrian Service Abroad has its origin in the acknowledgement of the Austrian government, in particular by chancellor Franz Vranitzky in 1991, regarding the Austrian peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Weinzierl
Erika Weinzierl (6 June 1925 – 28 October 2014) was an Austrian historian, gender researcher, and historian of Nazism. A member of the Austrian People's Party and the Curatorium of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, she was the second director of the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, succeeding Ludwig Jedlicka.Friedrich Stadler"40 Jahre Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien" (2006). Retrieved 2012-12-18 (in German). Weinzierl was a recipient of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, the Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften, the Benemerenti medal, and the Theodor Körner Prize. Biography Erika Fischer was born on 6 June 1925 in Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the University of Vienna. She headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of Social Sciences and was a full professor at the University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Busek
Erhard Busek (25 March 1941 – 13 March 2022) was an Austrian politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party (ÖVP). Throughout his political career, he was widely regarded as one of the leaders of the party's liberal wing. He was coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative (SECI) and chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. Busek was chief of the party and Vice-Chancellor of Austria in the coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Austria with the People's Party between 1991 and 1995 and was an important reformer of the Austrian universities. From January 2002 until June 2008 Busek served as Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, the final person to hold the position. Early life and education Busek earned his Doctor of Laws at the University of Vienna in 1963. During his studies, he also served as Chairman of the Austrian Youth Council. He was a Roman Catholic. He was a Boy Scout in his youth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Vranitzky
Franz Vranitzky (; born 4 October 1937) is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1997. Early life and career As the son of a foundryman, Vranitzky was born into humble circumstances in Vienna's 17th district. He attended the Realgymnasium Geblergasse and studied economics, graduating in 1960. He financed his studies teaching Latin and English and as a construction worker. As a young man, Vranitzky played basketball and was a member of Austria's national team, which in 1960 unsuccessfully tried to qualify for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In 1962 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 1962, Vranitzky married Christine Christen, with whom he fathered two children. Vranitzky began his career in 1961 at Siemens-Schuckert, but within the year switched to Austria’s central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank. In 1969, he received a doctorate in International business stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Sturm-Schnabl
Katja (Stanislawa Katharina) Sturm-Schnabl (born 17 February 1936 in Zinsdorf, municipality of Magdalensberg) is a Carinthian Slovenes, Carinthian-Slovene linguist and literary historian known for her research and contemporary eyewitness accounts of the 20th century in central Europe. Life and work Katja Sturm-Schnabl was born into a politically active Slovenian family on a farm in Carinthia, Austria, northeast of Klagenfurt. Her first decisive life experience was the family's deportation in April 1942. Sturm-Schnabl described it this way, "They stormed into the house, shouted incomprehensible things in abrupt sentences (when I was a child I didn't understand German) and there was immediately indescribable chaos in the house... ''Nemci'' (Germans) to the left and right and us in the middle, that is how we were taken away, we had to walk through the village." Three and a half years of imprisonment in two camps followed, during which time her ailing older sister Veronika died after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Sarközi
Rudolf Sarközi (11 November 1944 – 12 March 2016) was the chairman of the Austrian Romani association ''Kulturverein''. Sarközi was born in the Lackenbach concentration camp in Burgenland, Austria. After the liberation of the camp, he returned with his mother to her home in Burgenland. At the age of 14 he started working, and in 1964 married Helga, moving with her to her home town of Vienna. After a career in electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ..., Sarközi founded the Austrian Romani Cultural Society and achieved legal recognition for the Romani minority in Austria. He retired in 1997 to concentrate on his work for the Society and died in 2016 at the age of 71. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Pühringer
Josef Pühringer (; born 30 October 1949 in Traun) is a former Austrian politician. From 2 March 1995 to 6 April 2017 he was the governor ( Landeshauptmann) of Upper Austria. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He is a member of several Roman Catholic student fraternities that belong to the ÖCV and the MKV. Pühringer is imperial Knight of Honor of the Order of St. George The Order of Saint George (russian: Орден Святого Георгия, Orden Svyatogo Georgiya) is the highest military decoration of the Russian Federation. Originally established on 26 November 1769 Julian (7 December 1769 Gregorian) a .... References 1949 births Living people People from Linz-Land District Governors of Upper Austria Austrian Roman Catholics {{Austria-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Häupl
Michael Häupl (born 14 September 1949) is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, he served as mayor and governor of Vienna from 7 November 1994 until 24 May 2018. Early life and education Häupl was born in Altlengbach, Lower Austria. He studied Biology and Zoology at the University of Vienna and was an academic assistant at the Vienna Natural History Museum from 1975 to 1983. Political career He was the State Chairman of the Socialist Students of Austria, the student organisation of the SPÖ from 1975 to 1978, a member of the Viennese Municipal Council from 1983 to 1988, and from 1988 until 1994, Executive City Councillor for Environment and Sport. Häupl followed Helmut Zilk in 1993 as a state party chairman of the SPÖ in Vienna and on 7 November 1994, he became the mayor of Vienna. Häupl has won three elections since his appointment as mayor; each of them has led to increased majorities for the SPÖ. In the 1996 City Council election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenios Kardamakis
Arsenius (Latinized form) and Arsenios (Greek form) is a male first name. It is derived from the Greek word ''arsenikos'' (ἀρσενικός), meaning "male", "virile". in ''Online Etymological Dictionary'' It may refer to: * Saint Arsenius the Great (c. 350 – 445), also known as Arsenius the Deacon, Arsenius of Scetis and Turah, and Arsenius the Roman * Saint , first bishop of Corfu, (d. 800 AD or perhaps 959 AD) one of the principal patron saints of Corfu * Patriarch Arsenius of Alexan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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