Harald Walser

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Harald Walser (2013)

Harald Walser (born April 18, 1953 in Hohenems ) is an Austrian politician ( Die Grünen ) and historian. Walser was director of the Bundesgymnasium Feldkirch and from 2008 to 2017 a member of the Austrian National Council . He was the top candidate of the Vorarlberg Greens in the National Council elections in 2008 and 2013 . Walser lives in Altach , is married and has two sons.

job

In 1978, Harald Walser completed his studies in German and history at the University of Innsbruck , was a member of the Trotskyist group Revolutionary Marxists (GRM) and in 1979 co-founder of the Vorarlberg Teachers' Initiative (VLI). He received his doctorate in history in 1982 with a dissertation on "The illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1933-1938". His father was a member of the NSDAP himself. In 1978 Walser began teaching at the Bundesgymnasium Feldkirch , which he was director from 2003 to 2008.

As a historian , he is a co-founder and is still a board member of the Johann August Malin Society . In numerous publications he dealt in particular with the history of Vorarlberg and Tyrol in the first half of the 20th century. His main research interests included the history of the illegal NSDAP in Vorarlberg and Tyrol as well as the development of Vorarlberg's economy during National Socialism .

Between 2001 and 2008 Harald Walser wrote a weekly column in the daily newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten . Walser held various functions between 1991 and January 2006, most recently as chairman and functionary of the Vorarlberg football club SCR Altach . During his tenure, the club managed, among other things, to move up to the second highest Austrian league. During his active career as a football player, Walser played for SCR Altach and VfB Hohenems .

politics

In 2000, Walser began his commitment to the Vorarlberg Greens as a board member at the Green Education Workshop . Since spring 2008 he has been a member of the state board of the Greens in Vorarlberg . Politically, he is particularly concerned with issues of education, the past and sociopolitical issues. With the National Council election on September 28, 2008 , Walser became a member of the Austrian National Council for the first time and was the speaker of the Green Parliamentary Club on education and past policy.

In the field of educational policy, one of the main focuses of Walser's political work is the commitment to a modern, differentiated common school for all children up to the age of 14. A first major success in this regard was the change in mood in favor of a corresponding reform in his home state Vorarlberg and the decision of the black and green Vorarlberg state government in 2015 to apply to the federal government for a “model region for joint schools”.

In December 2009, after years of negotiations, the repeal and rehabilitation law for the victims of Nazi military justice was passed by the Austrian National Council. In January 2012, after many years of negotiations with the governing parties, a resolution was passed for the law on the rehabilitation of the victims of Austrofascism. During the negotiations for both laws, Harald Walser and his party colleague Albert Steinhauser were negotiators for the Greens. Finally, on October 24, 2014, the memorial for those persecuted by the Nazi military justice was inaugurated in Vienna, for which Walser had also strongly advocated.

Walser was just as involved in bringing about the amendment of the “Israelite Law” from 1890 as well as in preparing the new codification of the Islamic Law in 2015, which was ultimately rejected by the Greens despite some concessions from the governing parties.

Publications (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Harald Walser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Walser: The illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1933-1938 . In: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement: Materials on the Labor Movement No. 28 . Vienna, Europa Verlag 1983, ISBN 978-3-203-50846-7 ( online )
  2. ^ Office of the Vorarlberg state government: School for 10 to 14 year olds in Vorarlberg . Project plan from January 21, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ Harald Walser: A historic step . Article in the context of the Commentary of the Others section on derStandard.at from January 16, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ Marc Bittner, Reinhold Gutschik: The discourse about Wehrmacht deserters on the occasion of the implementation of the deserters monument in Vienna (2010-2013) . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Feindbilder . Vienna 2015 (= yearbook 2015), accessed on February 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Agreement on the Israelite Law . Article in the Wiener Zeitung (online edition) on April 19, 2012, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  6. ↑ Harald Walser: Why we Greens reject the Islam law! . Blog post on Harald Walsesr's political blog on February 25, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ National Council President Sobotka presented decorations to former members of parliament . OTS notification dated June 3, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Walser, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian educator, historian and politician (GRÜNE), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenems