World Federation of Austrians Abroad
The World Federation of Austrians Abroad ( AÖWB ) is the Vienna- based global umbrella organization and represents the interests of all affiliated associations of Austrians abroad . Around 170 clubs on all continents belong to the World Federation.
organization
In 1952, the World Federation of Austrians Abroad was founded, which was also the umbrella organization. Independently of this, the Auslandsösterreicherwerk was founded a few years later , which saw its main task as a service facility for the Austrians abroad. It also published the information journal ROTWEISSROT .
In 2002, the year of the Austrians Abroad , both associations merged to form what is now the World Federation of Austrians Abroad (AÖWB) , which as the sole representative of Austrians abroad now has around 10,000 direct members. The AÖWB understands Austrians abroad to be “both Austrian passport holders and Austrians with their hearts”.
It is chaired by a presidium: the president is Gustav Chlestil , the vice-presidents are Jürgen Em and Werner Götz, all in Germany. The board members also elected for four years on September 6, 2014 are Margarete Bernava-Bambas in Italy, Juliana G. Belcsak in USA, Jürgen Bischof in Great Britain, Peter Ernst in France, Heidemarie Hirschbäck in Australia, Rudolf Neuhold and Thomas Payer in Germany as well Laszlo Schmidt in Hungary. Helga Martinelli (Switzerland) and Roland K. Pirker (Canada) were delegated to the board by umbrella organizations. The AÖWB has a general secretariat based in Vienna and receives annual subsidies from the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs in the amount of 200,000 euros. In addition, the AÖWB has a vote in the Auslandsösterreicher-Fonds (AÖF) , which distributes an annual tax budget of over 600,000 euros for needy Austrians abroad.
The association also publishes the quarterly journal ROTWEISSROT and has been in charge of the internet forum for Austrians abroad founded by Gerald Ganglbauer since 2004 . The association also presents the achievements of Austrians abroad within Austria, for example with the traveling exhibition “The 10th Federal State” or other campaigns with which it strives to maintain constant contact with the former homeland. Once a year, always in a different federal state, a meeting of Austrians abroad takes place in Austria, which is linked to the World Federation Conference or the AÖWB General Assembly and at which the award for Austrian Abroad of the Year is awarded.
Austrian Abroad of the Year
Similar to honoring Austria of the year in Germany, the AÖWB has been honoring outstanding Austrians as Austrians abroad every year since 1994 . These goods:
- 1994 - Ferdinand Piëch , entrepreneur
- 1995 - Helmut Sohmen , shipping company owner
- 1996 - Alois Wagner , Archbishop
- 1997 - Karlheinz Böhm , people for people
- 1998 - Helmut Thoma , managing director of RTL
- 2000 - Franz Fischler , EU Commissioner
- 2001 - Franz Welser-Möst , conductor
- 2002 - Maximilian Schell , actor
- 2003 - Juliana Genevieve Belcsak , Chair of the umbrella organization for all Austrian-American Councils in North America
- 2004 - Wolfgang Mayrhuber , CEO of Lufthansa
- 2005 - Antonia Rados , journalist
- 2006 - Friedrich von Thun , actor
- 2007 - Eugen Kedl , photographer
- 2008 - Bernhard Paul , circus director, director, clown and co-founder of Circus Roncalli
- 2009 - Dietmar Feichtinger , architect
- 2010 - Gottfried Schatz , biochemist
- 2011 - Peter Löscher , manager
- 2012 - Johann Lafer , cook
- 2013 - Paul Achleitner , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank
- 2014 - Norbert Bischofberger , biochemist and Vice President of Gilead Sciences
- 2015 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner
- 2016 - Stefan Sagmeister , graphic designer and typographer
- 2017 - Pascale Ehrenfreund , astrobiologist
- 2018 - Severin Schwan , manager
- 2019 - Markus Stephan Bugnyár , priest
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of AÖWB
- ↑ Ferrero-Waldner opens this year's meeting of Austrians abroad in the Vienna City Hall - 2002 as the year of Austrians abroad honors the achievements of the “representatives of Austria” Österreich Journal, 2002
- ↑ a b Statutes (PDF; 60 kB) World Federation of Austrians Abroad (AÖWB) ZVR XV - 644
- ^ Günter Düriegl: The World Federation met in Baden. (PDF; 3.0 MB) ROTWEISSROT No. 4, 2014, p.
- ↑ Foreign Policy Report 2009 (PDF; 4.5 MB): AÖWB 200,000 euros, 2008 (PDF; 1.3 MB) AÖWB 217,000 euros, 2007 (PDF; 2.0 MB) AÖWB 217,000 euros, 2006 (PDF; 3.6 MB) AÖWB 184,300 euros, 2005 (PDF; 4.1 MB) AÖWB 184,300 euros.
- ↑ Auslandsösterreicher-Fonds (PDF; 4.6 MB) Auslandsösterreicher Journal ROTWEISSROT 3/2009
- ↑ Austrians Abroad, from 2004 to 2011 at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/austriansabroad now http://www.austrians.org
- ^ The 10th Federal State - The Austrians Abroad All Over the World Literaturhaus Wien 2006; Exhibition "The 10th Federal State" AÖWB
- ↑ Paul Achleitner is the Austrian living abroad in 2013 . nachricht.at, September 6, 2013. Accessed September 10, 2013.
- ↑ Vorarlberger is Austrian Abroad of the Year September 4th, 2014
- ↑ orf.at - Sagmeister is “Austrian Abroad of the Year” . Article dated September 3, 2016, accessed September 3, 2016.
- ↑ Austrian Abroad of 2017 . Article dated September 11, 2017, accessed November 18, 2017.
- ^ Annual meeting 2018 of Austrians abroad in Innsbruck . Article dated September 7, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018.
- ^ Jerusalem Hospice Rector is "Austrian Abroad of the Year". In: Kathpress . September 5, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 .