August Maria Knoll

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August Maria Knoll (born September 5, 1900 in Vienna ; † December 24, 1963 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer, sociologist and Catholic social reformer.

Life

August Maria Knoll studied in Vienna and became a member of Maximiliana Vienna in the KÖL and the KÖStV Nibelungia Vienna in the ÖCV . Knoll was founded in 1931 with the state-scientific work Karl Vogelsang and Estates thought at Vienna University doctorate . In 1932 he became Ignaz Seipel's private secretary . In 1934 he completed his habilitation with Othmar Spann with the work Der Zins in der Scholastik . Knoll initially worked as a private lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and as editor-in-chief of the weekly Arbeiter-Sonntag . From 1934 to 1938 he was editor-in-chief of the Viennese daily newspaper Das Kleine Blatt .

During the Nazi era, he was banned from practicing his profession from 1938 to 1945 and was private librarian from 1940 to 1943.

After the end of World War II in 1946 August Maria Knoll received a reputation as an extraordinary Professor of Religion sociologist at the University of Vienna and from 1950 as Professor of Sociology , where the later social philosopher Norbert Leser was one of his students. In 1953 he and Karl Kummer founded the Institute for Social Policy and Social Reform, which is now called Dr. Karl Kummer Institute for Social Reform, Economic and Social Policy carries.

August Maria Knoll was together with Ernst Karl Winter , Alfred Missong , Hans Karl von Zessner-Spitzenberg and Wilhelm Schmidt , who were all part of various Catholic associations, but together were members of the Landsmannschaft Maximiliana, in the 1920s the founder of the Austrian Action , which dealt with pan-European theories.

On February 11, 1963, August Maria Knoll was together with Ludwig Jedlicka , Paul Schärf and Herbert Steiner co-founder of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and its president.

Quotes

  • "National Socialism is the movement that made the Prussian sword available to Austrian folly."

Fonts (selection)

  • The social thought in modern Catholicism . Rheinhold-Verlag, Leipzig.
  • Series of publications by the Institute for Social Policy and Social Reform . Association for Social and Economic Policy Vienna.
  • The Austrian action. Programmatic studies . Vienna 1927.
  • Cardinal Fr. G. Piffl and the Austrian Episcopate on Social and Cultural Issues, 1913–1932. Source collection . Rheinhold-Verlag, Leipzig 1932.
  • The struggle for the professional order in Austria . Austrian Homeland Service, 1933.
  • Interest in scholasticism . Tyrolia, Munich 1933.
  • From Seipel to Dollfuss . Manz, Vienna 1934.
  • Goal and belief. The way of a generation . Vienna 1936.
  • The capitalism problem in modern sociology . Herold, Vienna 1953.
  • Catholic social teaching. Between belief and science . Europa Verlag, Zurich 1966.
  • Catholic Church and scholastic natural law. On the question of freedom . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1968.
  • Faith between the order of rule and the expectation of salvation. Studies in political theology and sociology of religion . Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-205-98605-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See his dedication in the book Sozialphilosophie , 2nd ed., Vienna (among others): 1997
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, August Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, sociologist and Catholic social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1963
Place of death Vienna