Andreas Salcher

Andreas Salcher (2019)

Andreas Salcher (born December 18, 1960 in Vienna ) is a former politician of the ÖVP , co-founder of the Sir Karl Popper School , advisor and author .

biography

1986 Andreas Salcher received his doctorate in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business . His dissertation is entitled "Strategic Organizational Development: A System-Oriented Management Concept for Implementing Long-Term Change Strategies". In 1989 he completed the "Program for Senior Managers in Government" at Harvard University .

Salcher began his political career in 1985 as chairman of the young ÖVP Vienna. In 1987 he was elected the youngest member of the Vienna State Parliament, to which he was a member for a total of 12 years. From 1992 to 1996 Salcher was deputy state party leader of the ÖVP. Under City Councilor for Culture Peter Marboe , he was appointed chairman of the City of Vienna's Culture Committee. In 2005, Andreas Salcher left the Vienna City Council .

After a personal meeting with Karl Popper, the former state school spokesman and deputy national school spokesman founded the first Austrian school for gifted students together with Bernhard Görg in 1998. To this day, Salcher is the executive vice-president of the Association for the Promotion of the Sir Karl Popper School, which sees itself as a learning system that makes mistakes, admits them, reflects them and tries to improve them according to the principle of trial and error .

Andreas Salcher has been running a consulting company since 1997. In his projects he combines the ancient wisdom teachings of mankind with modern management concepts.

In 2004 he founded the Waldzell Institute together with Gundula Maria Schatz , which organized the Waldzell Meetings annually from 2004 to 2008 . In 2007 Salcher left the organization. In the same year he initiated the global education project "The Curriculum Project - Creating the Schools of Tomorrow" with the aim of reinventing the school of tomorrow with the best minds in the world. The focus is on the right to life of every child in the world to develop their talents. Salcher's first work on this subject, The Talented Student and His Enemies , was awarded the Golden Book of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade in September 2008 . 2009 Salcher was the book favorite for "Author of the Year" and "communicator of the year" of the Public Relations Association Austria selected. In 2012 two works by Andreas Salcher with the title My Last Hour and Never More School - More and More Joy were published . In the same year, both The Wounded Man and My Last Hour were awarded the platinum book by the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade for more than 50,000 copies sold in Vienna. In 2014 he was awarded the book favorite in the business category for Know yourself and not scare.

Works

Book publications

• The talented student and his eternal enemies , Ecowin, Salzburg / Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0241-9
• The whole life in one day , Ecowin, Salzburg / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7110-0164-1
• I am there for you: the art of friendship , Ecowin, Wals near Salzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7110-0105-4
• All or nothing. The great litter of the popes . 1st edition. Ecowin, Wals near Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7110-0083-5 (with Johannes Huber).
• Know yourself and don't be frightened . Ecowin, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7110-0050-7 .
• No more school - more and more joy . Ecowin, Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7110-0032-3 .
• I did not know . Ecowin, Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7110-0021-7 .
• My last hour . Ecowin, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-902404-96-1 .
• The injured person . Ecowin, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902404-69-5 .
• The talented student and his enemies . Ecowin, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902404-55-8 .
• The Sir Karl Popper School: A project to promote the gifted in an international comparison . In: Austrian Yearbook of Politics . Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7028-0335-1 .
• Oil the big wheel - Wienovationen . Hofstätter, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-900936-01-3 .

Press articles, online texts

• Andreas Salcher: Against indolence! , The Press , March 24, 2012

literature

• Author Salcher pleads for self-improvement ( memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , March 10, 2012
• Expert criticizes school debate , Ö1 , November 25, 2010
• Michaela Seiser: " Against the talent killers ", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 11 January 2009
• A survivor's high-altitude flight , courier , January 11, 2009 (PDF file; 846 kB)
• The enemies of dormant talents , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 13, 2008 (PDF file; 715 kB)
• Thinking schools globally into the future , Der Standard .at, February 18, 2008
• Cultural revolution for Viennese schools , Kurier , February 1, 2005
• Club Carriere - the encyclopedia of success 2000, Algoprint Verlag

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Andreas Salcher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of Andreas Salcher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Double platinum for Andreas Salcher. Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade , May 29, 2012, accessed on March 10, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Die Buchlieblinge 2014. (No longer available online.) In: “Buchliebling.com”. Karl Schwarzer publishing office, January 4, 2015, archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; accessed on May 21, 2015 .