Friedrich Romig

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Friedrich Romig (born September 21, 1926 in Königsberg ) is an Austrian economist and Christian - conservative publicist .

biography

Romig studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1950 on "Economic research as the basis of economic policy" and completed his habilitation in 1965 with the Spann student Walter Heinrich . That is why he sees himself as Othmar Spann's grandchildren . In 1966 he was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for his habilitation thesis . He taught as a lecturer and guest lecturer in 1967 at the University of World Trade, 1967/68 at RWTH Aachen University and 1969/70 at the University of Graz . From 1969 to 1986 he worked full-time as planning director of the Austrian oil and chemical company OMV . Here he gave sustainable support to Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer , whose doctoral thesis he had also supervised in 1976.

As a fundamental opponent of the EU , Romig acted between 1992 and 1994 during the debates about Austria 's accession to the EU as the European Commissioner of the Diocese of St. Pölten and its local bishop Kurt Krenn and was also a member of the European Commission of the Catholic Austrian Bishops' Conference .

Publication activity

Romig worked on the Lexicon of Conservatism edited by Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing and publishes regularly in a number of right-wing extremist and new -right magazines such as Die Aula , Junge Freiheit , Zur Zeit , Die Weiße Rose and Criticón and in relevant publishers such as Leopold Stocker Verlag and the Regin publishing house . He also worked as an author for the right-wing extremist blog kreuz.net , which was closed on December 2, 2012. With his appearances at various FPÖ events and participation in magazines published by the FPÖ MEP Andreas Mölzer , he is considered a link between the FPÖ and ultra-conservative Catholics in Austria.

Romig represents an approach that seeks to link natural law , Platonic state theory , Spann's holistic theory and Catholic social theory . He rejects a separation of society and community , as it goes back to Ferdinand Tönnies in sociology and instead advocates the "penetration" of all areas of social life in the Catholic sense of evangelization . Romig pleaded in the right-wing conservative journal Criticón for a redefinition of conservatism in the light of Catholic social teaching, although he criticizes its current form. He positions himself as an opponent of the market economy , the Enlightenment , the separation of church and state and the values ​​of the democratic constitutional state .

Romig is also attested to a "transformed anti-Semitism ", which is made up of set pieces of left anti-imperialism and right-wing anti-Semitism and is not only directed against Israeli politics and the state of Israel , but also asserts a “ world Jewry ” that includes all of US politics in the vicinity East determine. Citing Léon Bloy , whose anti- Judaistic theses he circulated approvingly from the book Le Salut par les Juifs (1892), Romig reiterated the accusation of the murder of God against the Jewish people and considers the death of Jesus of Nazareth to be a “murder of the Jews to this day not regret it and would repeat it at any time. ”In addition, Romig spoke of a“ Judaization ”and“ Zionization of the world ”. He identified the Enlightenment and Jews with the " Antichrist " in his book The Meaning of History (2011) ; they represented liberal capitalism , whose peculiarities include "rational, arithmetic thinking, high esteem for making money, speculation, the homelessness of capital". Romig repeatedly compared abortions with the Holocaust with the tenor that many more innocent people legally fell victim to the former.

Manfred Gerstenfeld assesses Romig as a "link between Catholic fundamentalists and right-wing extremist circles".

Disputes with the DÖW

Romig attracted particular attention through his repeated arguments with the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). Under the title “The Last Stalin Organ” he published an article on the DÖW in the right-wing extremist magazine Die Aula , in which he wrote, among other things, that the DÖW was a “ communist cover organization”. The then scientific director of the DÖW, Wolfgang Neugebauer , whom Romig had described as a " denouncer ", sued him for defamation. Romig was found partially guilty and sentenced to a conditional fine. Other polemic and defamatory passages of Romigs items left the courts dealing with the case, most recently, the Higher Regional Court of Vienna in 1998 as a court of appeal than by the freedom of expression covered value judgments with impunity; these were taken up again and again in right-wing extremist periodicals and by MPs of the FPÖ and presented as facts authenticated by a court judgment. Since mid-July 1998 , FPÖ members around Ewald Stadler have directed several parliamentary questions to the Federal Ministers for Education , the Interior , Justice and Finance regarding state support for the DÖW.

After Romig had renewed his attacks against the DÖW as a “temple of lies” in the weekly newspaper Zur Zeit in 2007 under the title “You lie diligently!”, Which had represented a “historical lie” for decades, the DÖW again filed a lawsuit. Romig and the W3 publishing company as the media owner were sentenced on August 3, 2009 by the Vienna Commercial Court to cease and desist and to publicly revoke it. The appeal was rejected on November 30, 2009 by the Vienna Higher Regional Court.

Honors

Publications

  • Middle economy. An introduction to "Economic Policy" by Walter Heinrich. Donors library, Salzburg 1955.
  • Economic cooperation theory. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966.
  • The ideological elements in neoclassical theory. A critical examination of Paul A. Samuelson . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1971.
  • About the kingdom of God. Four Treatises on Conservatism , In: The White Rose. Journal against the Zeitgeist 1/6. (1988/1993).
  • The Christian doctrine of the state of Leo XIII. A consideration on the occasion of 100 years of "Rerum Novarum". In: Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsforschung NF35 (1991,4), pp. 187-202
  • "Omnia instaurare in Christo" Holistic aspects of the Catholic social understanding . In: Erwin Schadel (ed.): Holistic thinking. Festschrift for Arnulf Rieber on his 60th birthday . Lang, Frankfurt 1996, pp. 409ff.
  • Justice for the Common Good - Illusion or Reality? In: Rudolf Weiler u. Akira Mizunami (ed.): Justice in the social order. The virtue of justice in the age of globalization. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, p. 35ff.
  • Domination and sacrifice. About a central thesis of Leopold Ziegler. In: Paulus Wall (ed.): Leopold Ziegler . World Decay and Incarnation Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2001, p. 105ff.
  • The rights of the nation. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 2002
  • The unity of being, man and state in Plato . In: Courage for Ethics. What does it take for more peace in the world? XIII. Congress from September 2nd to 4th, 2005 in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg) . Zurich 2006, p. 139ff.
  • 1848 - 2008. The long road to bondage . In: Andreas Mölzer (Ed.): Freedom writes on your flags! 1848 - 2008. The Third Camp: Legacy and Mission. W3-Verl.-Ges., Vienna 2008, p. 67ff.
  • The sense of history , Regin, Preetz 2011. Foreword Ernst Nolte
  • ESM - Constitutional Putsch in Europe , Edition Antaios, 2012
  • Political Correctness - The way into political and spiritual chaos. Lühe-Verlag , Süderbrarup 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar ; September 23, 1929 according to the judgment of the LG f. Criminal cases Vienna, Hv 7.899 / 92/95 of April 29, 1997.
  2. ↑ Thomas Seifert: Springboards to Power. Management training centers in Austria . Munich 1998, p. 124.
  3. ^ Peter Wensierski : New home . In: Der Spiegel , December 10, 2012.
  4. ^ Foundation Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism. Vienna 1994, p. 398; Lucian O. Meysels: Unholy Alliances. Who paves the way for Jörg Haider? Klosterneuburg 1995, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Erwin Fröhlich u. Friedrich Romig: Holistic teaching and Catholic social teaching. In: Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsforschung , NF 44 (2000), pp. 129–142, here: p. 133.
  6. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Conservative Revolution and New Right. Opladen 1998, p. 205; Stefan Kubon: The German newspaper "Junge Freiheit" and the legacy of the "conservative revolution" of the Weimar Republic. An investigation to capture the continuity of “conservative-revolutionary” political ideas. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2006, pp. 67f, 149.
  7. ↑ Florian Finkbeiner: National Hope and Conservative Disappointment. On the change in the conservative understanding of nations after German unification. transcript, Bielefeld 2020, p. 315
  8. ↑ Klaus Hödl u. Gerald Lamprecht: Between Continuity and Transformation - Anti-Semitism in the Current Media Discourse in Austria. In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History 2005, pp. 150f.
  9. ↑ Friedrich Romig: "Consummatum est" - Léon Bloy: Salvation through the Jews. In: kathisches.info , April 29, 2017; Critically reviewed by Felizitas Küble: Are wrong judgments against Jews ineradicable? In: dies .: Christian Forum , June 6, 2018; both accessed on May 12, 2019.
  10. ↑ Elke Rajal: Open, coded, structural. Anti-Semitism among the 'identitarians'. In: Judith Goetz, Joseph Maria Sedlacek, Alexander Winkler (Ed.): Untergangster des Abendlandes. Ideology and reception of the right-wing extremist 'identitarians'. Marta Press, Hamburg 2018 (2nd edition), p. 328f.
  11. ^ Wolfgang Purtscheller, Markus Kemmerling, Václav Kopecký: Delikt: Antifaschismus. Letter bomb terror in Austria and criminalization campaigns from the right. Berlin 1998, p. 115.
  12. ↑ Manfred Gerstenfeld (Ed.): Academics against Israel and the Jews . Jerusalem 2007, p. 193.
  13. ↑ DÖW: Gudenus' "incorrect reading" of an appeal decision www.derstandard.at, May 24, 2004
  14. ^ Friedrich Romig and W3-Verlagsgesellschaft condemned www.doew.at, March 2010
  15. ^ DÖW communications. Episode 196 (May 2010), p. 9f.
  16. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Romig, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg