Heinrich Neisser

Heinrich Neisser (* 19th March 1936 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jurist and former politician of the ÖVP . He was the second President of the National Council in the Austrian Parliament from 1994 to 1999.

Life

Heinrich Neisser studied law at the University of Vienna after graduating in 1954 . There he became a member of the Catholic student union K.Ö.St.V. Rudolfina Vienna in the ÖCV . In 1960 Neisser was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . After the judicial year he became a trainee judge and was secretary in the presidium of the Constitutional Court from 1961 to 1966 . In 1966 he became a civil servant in the Austrian Federal Chancellery (most recently in the constitutional service ). 1974 to 1981 Neisser was head of a staff department at the Association of Austrian Industrialists . 1981 to 1984 he was the federal manager of the management club. In 1989 Heinrich Neisser became honorary professor for political science at the University of Vienna.

Since he left active politics in 1999, he has been studying the history and politics of European integration, especially the European Union , at the University of Innsbruck . From the winter semester 1999/2000 until the end of 2007 he also held the Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck (the subject of research and teaching in this chair is the politics of European integration).

Heinrich Neisser is President of the Austrian Research Foundation (ÖFG), Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) and President of the Austrian-Korean Society. Neisser is also the chairman of the European Movement Austria (EBÖ) , the Austrian Council of the International European Movement (IEB) based in Brussels and chairman of the Association for the Initiative for Majority Suffrage and Democratic Reform .

In 2004 he was named an "honorary citizen" by the former private Austrian IMADEC University .

politics

Neisser's political career dates back to the late 1960s. From 1969 to 1970 he was State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery, from 1987 to 1989 Federal Minister for Federalism and Administrative Reform in the Federal Government of Vranitzky II . In the period immediately before and after his ministerial office, he was a member of the National Council (1975–1987 and 1989–1999), including club chairman of the ÖVP from 1990 to 1994 and second president of the National Council from 1994 to 1999.

Awards

• 1983: Large Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2008: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2008: Great Tyrolean Eagle Order
• Military Merit Mark

Works (selection)

• Heinrich Neisser, Hans Hafner: Lebenswelt Familie , Medien und Recht Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-900741-17-4
• Heinrich Neisser, Christian Brünner: Technology assessment. A Challenge for Parliament , Media and Law Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-900741-18-2
• Heinrich Neisser, Christian Brünner, Gerhard Schäffer: Career through teaching. Changed professional world: New tasks for our education system , media and law Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-900741-09-3
• Heinrich Neisser, Gerhard Hammerschmid: The innovative administration. Perspectives of New Public Management in Austria , Facultas 1998, ISBN 3-85114-607-7
• Heinrich Neisser, Bea Verschraegen : The European Union , Springer Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-211-83350-1
• Heinrich Neisser, Sonja Puntscher Riekmann: Europeanization of Austrian Politics? Consequences of EU membership , WUV-Universitätsverlag 2002, ISBN 3-85114-680-8
• Michael Ley, Heinrich Neisser, Gilbert Weiss: Political Religion? Politics, religion and anthropology in the work of Eric Voegelin , Fink 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3930-3
• Heinrich Neisser, Gerhard Loibelsberger, Helmut Strobl: Our republic at a glance. The reference work on Austria , Ueberreuter 2005, ISBN 3-8000-7086-3
• Katharina von Knop (editor), Heinrich Neisser, Martin van Creveld : Countering Modern Terrorism History, Current Issuses and Future Threats , Bertelsmann Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-7639-3309-3

literature

• Anton Pelinka , Fritz Plasser (ed.): European thinking and teaching. Festschrift for Heinrich Neisser . Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-902571-36-6 .

Web links

• Heinrich Neisser on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Literature by and about Heinrich Neisser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Heinrich Neisser in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Archive recordings with Heinrich Neisser in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (radio broadcasts)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)