Georg von Gaupp-Berghausen

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Georg Reichsritter von Gaupp-Berghausen (born January 12, 1918 in Vienna , † March 23, 1985 in Linz ) was an Austrian officer , most recently in the rank of major in the Wehrmacht , and a politician.

Activities in the military

Georg von Gaupp-Berghausen graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Vienna-Neustadt in 1939 and was drafted into military service as a commander . Wounded several times, Gaupp-Berghausen u. a. the German Cross in Gold on January 2, 1942 and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on September 30, 1944 . By 1945 he reached the rank of major. After the Second World War he was temporarily employed by the Salzburg state government as the state commissioner for the return of prisoners of war. After studying business administration, he worked as an authorized signatory in Düsseldorf from 1950 .

Activity in the Western Movement and in the CEDI

When he joined the Prince of Waldburg-Zeil's head office as a publishing director in 1952, a new chapter in Gaupp-Berghausen's life began. From the beginning, through his work for the Neues Abendland publishing house, he was involved in the institutionalization process of the Western Movement , which pursued the goal of a spiritual and moral renewal of Europe according to Christian principles. Although his work as Secretary General of the Occidental Academy and especially for the European Documentation and Information Center (CEDI) was officially only voluntary, it soon developed into a commitment that took up his full work force. Gaupp-Berghausen was a member of the Order of Malta and maintained close and friendly contacts in various European countries. Above all, he was able to use his excellent relations to Spain profitably for his work in the CEDI, as he gradually developed into the leading organizational and programmatic head. In this context, he was initially involved in the publication of the political information sheet Documentation of the Week . He later worked as editor of the Aconcagua magazine , which was dedicated to relations between Europe and Ibero America.

Activities outside of the CEDI

In 1968 Gaupp-Berghausen, who had made a name for himself as an important Austrian defense expert with several publications, founded the Society for Political-Strategic Studies (Strateg), of which he was to remain President until the early 1980s. He continued his commitment to relations between Europe and Ibero America in the 1970s and was involved in various projects for development aid and adult education in Central America and especially in Costa Rica . Due to his commitment to the protection of human rights in Central America and the improvement of living conditions for the Indians, he was considered a frontier worker who was able to successfully convey social-Catholic ideas between the aristocratic and Catholic-conservative milieu from which he came.

Gaupp-Berghausen died on March 23, 1985 at the age of 67 during a Central America conference in Linz.

Publications

• Development aid and development partnership through adult education in Costa Rica. In: Maislinger, Andreas (Ed.): Costa Rica. Politics, society and culture of a state with permanent active and unarmed neutrality. Innsbruck 1986, pp. 323-328.
• The prince and the "res publica". In: Zeiler aspects. Contributions to the 50th birthday of Georg Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg on June 5, 1978. Kempten 1980, pp. 108–115.
• Soldier in the shade. A study on national defense. Madrid 1966.
• (as ed.) Forms of defense in the atomic age. Vienna 1968.

literature

• Johannes Großmann: The International of Conservatives: Transnational Elite Covenants and Private Foreign Policy in Western Europe after 1945 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2014 ISBN 978-3-486-76507-6 google books preview
• Johannes Großmann: Escape to Europe. The Western Movement and the Transnationalization of Conservatism after World War II. In: Sebastian Liebold / Frank Schal (eds.): New foundation based on old values? Conservative intellectuals and politics in the Federal Republic , Baden-Baden (Nomos), 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 328.