Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger and Branko Lustig in Los Angeles (2009)

Andreas Maislinger (born February 26, 1955 in Sankt Georgen near Salzburg ) is an Austrian political scientist .

Live and act

Andreas Maislinger grew up in a country inn in Sankt Georgen near Salzburg. He was strongly influenced by his father Andreas Maislinger sen. as well as his neighbor, the writer Georg Rendl .

From 1982 to 1991 Maislinger worked at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck , at the University of New Orleans , at the Humboldt University in Berlin , at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Mayor Gerhard Skiba , Andreas Maislinger and memorial servants remember Righteous Among the Nations in front of the Adolf Hitler birthplace . (2002)

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Andreas Maislinger is the initiator of the Austrian memorial service . Since his studies he has campaigned for the legal anchoring of this type of military alternative service, which aims to educate people about the Holocaust . He was supported above all by Simon Wiesenthal , Teddy Kollek , Ari Rath , Herbert Rosenkranz , Gerhard Röthler and Karl Pfeifer . On October 10, 1980, at the invitation of Anton Pelinka, Maislinger had the opportunity to present "community service in Auschwitz" in the ORF program "Kreuzverhor" directed by Dolores Bauer . After the realization, the first memorial servant was able to take up his duties in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on September 1, 1992. However, in 1997 , Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl were voted out of office as chairmen of the Memorial Service Association . So, after a long discussion with the new board of the Memorial Service Association, they founded the Association for Services Abroad, renamed the Association of Austrian Foreign Service in 2005. The memorial service was expanded to include social service and peace service.

engagement

During his studies in Salzburg he was a member of the Austrian Student Union and tried to get Austrian participation in the international youth meeting place Auschwitz . However, Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger had refused to do so on the grounds that an Austrian had nothing to atone for in Auschwitz . Kirchschläger later recognized the positive result of the memorial service carried out by Maislinger . He spent the summer of 1978 in kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh near Nazareth . In 1980 he received his doctorate under Anton Pelinka Dr. phil. with a dissertation on problems of Austrian defense policy . The Auschwitz survivor Jerzy Adam Brandhuber was his confidante during this time. Hermann Langbein informed him about anti-Semitism at the Association of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy in Poland. At the suggestion of Jan Parcer, he called in Austria to support the construction of the Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oswiecim.

In 1986 he was a founding member of the Austrian-Israeli Society of Tyrol and in 1988 on behalf of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights in the GDR. This and previous GDR stays by Maislinger were observed by the Ministry for State Security . With Bishop Kurt Scharf , he campaigned for the release of political prisoners in the GDR. The trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, first organized by Maislinger in 1984, is still offered today by the Society for Political Enlightenment . Together with Yaacov Lozowick , he realized the first German-language seminar in Yad Vashem in 1992 .

From 1992 to 2012 Maislinger was the scientific director of the Braunau Contemporary History Days in Braunau am Inn . Mayor Gerhard Skiba had already made this conference proposed by Maislinger possible in 1987.

Until 1996 Andreas Maislinger published columns in the Jüdische Rundschau . After the FPÖ government participation in 2000, Maislinger suggested to the city of Braunau am Inn that they set up a “ House of Responsibility ” in the house where Adolf Hitler was born .

From 2006 Maislinger headed the in Bürmoos held Ignaz-Glaser-Symposium . In August 2006, at Maislinger's invitation , Gunter Demnig laid 13 stumbling blocks for victims of National Socialism in the Braunau am Inn district . As early as 1997, two stumbling blocks for the executed Jehovah's Witnesses Johann and Matthias Nobis were laid in Maislinger's home community.

As an animal rights activist , Andreas Maislinger and Johann Maier were involved in a Swiss cracker sales ban in 2007 .

Publications

• Social defense and Austrian international law . In: Austrian Journal for Political Science , main topic: Neutrality - Neutrality Policy . 1979/3.
• Peace movement in a neutral country. To the new peace movement in Austria. In: Media Power in the North-South Conflict. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-11166-3 .
• "New" Austrian peace movement. In: Austrian Yearbook for Politics 1983. Vienna 1984.
• The Catholic-Conservative Camp . In: Resistance and persecution in Tyrol 1934–1945. Volume 2. ÖBV, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-215-05368-3 .
• "Back to normal". For denazification in Tyrol . In: Repressed Guilt, Missed Atonement. Denazification in Austria 1945-1955. Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 1986.
• Anti-armed forces referendum: referendum or playground of scattered old 68ers? In: Anton Pelinka (ed.): Populism in Austria . Vienna 1987.
• Anti-Semitism without Jews - the example of Tyrol. In: Wolfgang Plat (ed.): This earth is full of life and full of death. Pictures from the history of the Jewish Austrians (1190 to 1945). Herold Verlag, Vienna 1988.
• “ Coming to terms with the past ” in the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR and Austria. Psychological-educational measures in comparison. In: Germany Archive , September 1990.
• The Franz Jägerstätter case . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . Yearbook. 1991, ISBN 3-901142-02-9 .
• "Driven into the hands of the National Socialists". On the history policy of the SPÖ from 1970 to 2000. In: Michael Wolffsohn / Thomas Brechenmacher (ed.): History as a trap. Germany and the Jewish world. ars una Verlagsgesellschaft, Neuried 2001. And: Europäische Rundschau , Issue 3/2001.

Editing

• Costa Rica . Politics, society and culture of a state with permanent active and unarmed neutrality . Inn-Verlag, Innsbruck 1986, ISBN 3-85123-091-4 .
• The Lamprechtshausen putsch . Witnesses from July 1934 report. Self-published, Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3-901201-00-9 .
• Handbook on the modern history of Tyrol. Volume 2: Contemporary History. (together with Anton Pelinka ), Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 1993.

Movies

• Lonely path - farmers against Hitler The oath refusal of the East Tyrolean farmer Vinzenz Schaller. Landeck film, 1986.
• No broken women. (Austria 1986; 50 min), script and direction: Andreas Riedler, idea and editing: Andreas Maislinger
• Republican Club - New Austria Vienna, November 21, 2012: Remembering for the future - 20 years of memorial service 1992 to 2012. - Rep.Cub December 20 , 2012 Peter Huemer with Andreas Maislinger, Eva Nowotny , Anton Pelinka . YouTube , 87 min.

Awards

• 2005: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and Medal of Merit of the State of Tyrol .
• In 2009 Andreas Maislinger received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the Weltmensch Prize from the Weltmenschverein.
• 2010: Great Merit of the State of Salzburg and Silver Merit of the State of Upper Austria. In November 2010 he received the John Rabe Peace Prize 2010 .
• In 2011, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde for Tyrol and Vorarlberg dedicated ten trees to Andreas Maislinger near Jerusalem. In November 2011 he was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize 2011 by the Wels Initiative against Fascism .
• 2012: On October 2, 2012, Maislinger received the French state's second highest award at the French Embassy in Vienna. He was named Knight of Honor of France by the French President Francoise Hollande: "Chevalier dans l` Ordre national du Mérite ". On 19 November 2012 he was awarded the Jewish Community Vienna , the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal .
• 2013: Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna with the Mauthausen Committee Austria and ORF journalist Irene Suchy.
• 2015: Leopold Kunschak Recognition Award
• 2018: The coat of arms of St. George of the municipality of St. Georgen near Salzburg
• 2018: Rector Tilmann Märk awarded Andreas Maislinger the Badge of Honor of the University of Innsbruck on October 19, 2018, in particular for "imparting knowledge about the Holocaust, which has received international recognition."

literature

• Joana Radzyner : Lonely among angels of peace: conscientious objector Andreas Maislinger exemplifies alternative peace service. In: Profil , July 12, 1982.
• Herbert Rosenkranz: An Austrian historian who swims against the current: Dr. Andreas Maislinger. In: Auseg - Jewish Journal for Enlightenment and Defense, June 1992.
• Thomas Trescher: The ungrateful Narcissus. In: Date 7–8 / 2008.
• Anton Legerer: Andreas Maislinger: Persuasion against the “victim myth”. In: Ders .: Tatort: ​​Reconciliation. Action atonement in the FRG and the GDR and memorial service in Austria. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02868-9 , pp. 421-440.
• Hans Kratzer: Visions of a host boy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 21./22. April 2012

Web links

Commons : Andreas Maislinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andreas Maislinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Andreas Maislinger
• Association for Services Abroad, Association of Austrian Foreign Service

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Maislinger about his father Andreas Maislinger sen. (2007)
2. ↑ Press archive and letter archive ( Memento of May 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) document commitment to the memorial service since 1977.
3. ^ "Civilian service in Holocaust memorials" : Peter Huemer and Andreas Maislinger, ORF Moment - Leben Heute, March 9, 1988
4. ↑ Teddy Kollek on the memorial service project (Tiroler Tageszeitung, January 12, 1993)
5. ↑ Interview with Dr. Andreas Maislinger, Die GEMEINDE, December 22, 1982 ( Memento of March 9, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Andreas Maislinger: "ZIVILDIENST" in Auschwitz ( Memento from March 9, 2001 in the Internet Archive ), Stattblatt - Linzer Programm- und Belangzeitschrift 22/1980
7. ^ Gerhard Marschall : "Keine Spielwiese", Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of June 18, 1997 ( Memento of April 23, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ "An umpire in memory", KURIER, Tyrol, December 5, 1997
9. ^ Letter from Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger to Dr. Andreas Maislinger, Vienna February 3, 1995
10. ^ Andreas Maislinger: "Kreiskys Interview und Israel" ( Memento of January 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Salzburger Nachrichten , October 24, 1978
11. ^ Letter from Hermann Langbein to Andreas Maislinger, Vienna December 20, 1980 ( Memento of July 7, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
12. ^ Church builders wanted for Auschwitz. Salzburger Nachrichten July 31, 1981 ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Letter from Andreas Maislinger to Bishop Kurt Scharf from January 21, 1981. ( Memento from July 2, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ http://www.uibk.ac.at/gfpa/ablage/dokumente/studienfahrt2010_1.pdf
15. ^ Herbert Rosenkranz : An Austrian historian who swims against the current. ( Memento of March 9, 2001 on the Internet Archive ), Israel News, April 10, 1992
16. ↑ Alfred Jungraithmayr : "Chance for Braunau" ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Braunauer Rundschau May 11, 1989. 
17. ^ Columns by Andreas Maislinger in the Jüdische Rundschau
18. ↑ House of Responsibility (HRB)
19. ↑ "Stumbling blocks" on admonishing memory (July 19, 1997) ( Memento of July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ Mail to the members of the Austrian National Council of December 24, 2007. ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ "The National Socialists in the Hands" n - On the historical policy of the SPÖ from 1970 to 2000 . In: Europäische Rundschau , issue 3/2001
22. ↑ Witnesses from July 1934 report on Maislinger.net
23. ^ Peasants against Hitler. A documentation by Andreas Maislinger. Information and press service of the Austrian Resistance Movement No. 1/199 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ Documentary “No Broken Women” (Austria 1986). ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ Maislinger: Award for life's work
26. ↑ Award from the Weltmenschverein
27. ↑ Awarding of the Great Merit Sign of the State of Salzburg ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 26 kB) on October 19, 2010 (salzburg.gv.at)  
28. ↑ John Rabe Prize for Andreas Maislinger , November 2, 2010 (salzburg.orf.at)
29. ↑ Certificate: 10 trees in the mountains of Jerusalem ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), IKG Innsbruck to Andreas Maislinger, January 2011
30. ↑ Welser Antifa awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize ( memento from October 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), antifa.at, November 2011
31. ↑ Memorial service: Maislinger Edelritter ORF Salzburg, October 3, 2012
32. ^ University of Innsbruck: honored distinguished personalities . Article dated October 19, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018.
33. ↑ Joana Radzyner: Lonely among angels of peace: conscientious objector Andreas Maislinger exemplifies alternative peace service. Profile , July 12, 1982.
34. ↑ Thomas Trescher: The ungrateful Narcissus. ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Date (journal), 7–8 / 2008