Charlotte Teuber

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Charlotte M. Teuber-Weckersdorf (* 1923 in Vienna ; † February 16, 1998 ) was an Austrian political scientist and art scholar. She was significantly involved in the girl scouting in Austria.

Life

Tomb of the Teuber family in the Dornbach cemetery

Charlotte Teuber came from a Catholic-Conservative family opposed to National Socialism . Her father, the officer Wilhelm Teuber-Weckersdorf , and her uncle Emmerich Teuber were pioneers of the scout movement in Austria. After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, Charlotte Teuber was discriminated against by the Nazi regime by being excluded from school, so that she was also denied a university degree. During the Second World War , she worked as a sister in the Red Cross , after the end of the war in 1945 she passed the vocational matriculation examination, which was specially introduced for the politically persecuted .

She studied archeology and art history in Innsbruck and received her doctorate in 1956 with a dissertation on the origins of the ancient diptych . She then went on to study political science at Harvard University . She acquired a Masters Degree there in 1960 and received her doctorate in 1978 under Stanley Hoffmann with a thesis on A pragmatic approach to world politics: the policies of nonalignment .

Due to good working contacts in Vienna, including Bruno Kreisky , in 1982 she accepted the invitation to an unlimited guest professorship at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna , where she worked as a university professor until her retirement in 1988. Although her last years of life were burdened by health problems, namely the consequences of malaria and severe cancer , she remained scientifically and politically active to the end.

Teuber combined her political science work with a political commitment that was shaped by her background and the experiences of the Nazi era, but also by American liberalism . Her criticism of Israel's Palestine policy was accompanied by a strict rejection of anti-Semitism . In the Waldheim affair , she took a stand against repression and oblivion in Austrian society, and in the fight against xenophobia she was one of the initiators of the “Platform against Xenophobia”. As a university teacher, she was characterized by a special personal commitment to the needs of her students, especially students from third world countries .

In 1985 Teuber took part in a meeting of the leadership of the Ugandan National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the Unterolberndorfer village inn "Zumgrün Jäger" . A conspiratorial meeting was held and a political program for liberated Uganda was drawn up. The aim was to overthrow the then incumbent President Milton Obote , who was overthrown by Army Chief Tito Okello at the end of June 1985 . The NRM is based on the "Unterolberndorfer Manifesto" on which the current constitution of Uganda is based.

Scouting activity

Her father Wilhelm Teuber-Weckersdorf was the first in Austria to work as a teacher at a military educational institution using the boy scout method developed by Robert Baden-Powell . Uncle Emmerich Teuber led one of the first scout troops in Vienna- Erdberg . After the Second World War, her father and Alexej Stachowitsch founded the Austrian Scouts in Salzburg .

Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf played a key role in shaping the history of the girl scouts in Austria. After 1945 she led the resurrection of the girl scouts in Salzburg, then throughout Austria. In August 1946 she organized the first female leader course and in April 1949 she became Austria’s chief training officer and international commissioner. From 1951 to 1957 she was the leader of the Austrian Girl Scouts. At the world conference on the occasion of the 7th World Jamborees in Bad Ischl in 1951 , she met Olave Baden-Powell in Salzburg . After the Hungarian uprising in 1956, she organized the aid work of the girl scouts in the Traiskirchen refugee camp .

literature

  • Michael Weinzierl: Teuber-Weckersdorff, Charlotte M. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (Ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 734-735.
  • Manfred Fux: History of the Austrian Scout Movement. From the beginning to the “Jamboree of Simplicity” (1912–1951). In: Franz Loidl (Ed.): Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. Wiener Dom Verlag, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-85351-037-X .
  • Kurt Pribich: Log of the scout associations in Austria. 2nd Edition. Self-published by the Austrian Scouts Guild, Vienna 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kreuttal.at ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2005 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreuttal.at
  2. ^ Albrecht Bossert, Christian Sager: Uganda's new constitution , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung - Auslandsinformationen, January 1, 1996, PDF version of October 16, 2002
  3. ^ Constitution of the Republic of Uganda
  4. ↑ a b Kurt Pribich: log of Scout associations in Austria. 2nd Edition. Self-published by the Austrian Scouts Guild, Vienna 2004.
  5. ↑ a b Monika Reichert: Obituary for Lotte Teuber: She has done her job and went home. PPÖ letter 1/1998.
  6. ↑ Manfred Fux: History of the Austrian scout movement. From the beginning to the “Jamboree of Simplicity” (1912–1951). In: Franz Loidl (Ed.): Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. Wiener Dom Verlag, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-85351-037-X , p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Teuber, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teuber-Weckersdorf, Charlotte M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1998