Heinz Kienzl

Heinz Kienzl (born October 8, 1922 in Vienna ; † January 29, 2020 ) was an Austrian trade unionist and bank manager.

Life

Kienzl grew up as the son of a chemist in Vienna. Persecuted under the Nazi regime for "racial" reasons because of his mother's Jewish origins, he worked as an overhead electrician for technical emergency aid . During the war he sympathized with the Fourth International ( Trotskyists ), but joined the SPÖ in 1945 .

Kienzl studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna and graduated with a doctorate (dissertation topic: The currency measures of the 2nd republic ). From 1947 he worked in the ÖGB . 1950 to 1968 he acted as head of the economic department. 1954 to 1969 he was elected councilor of the Chamber of Labor. Kienzl was also a co-founder of the Social Science Study Society, which has been conducting and publishing opinion polls on socially relevant topics since 1961.

From 1973 to 1988 he acted as General Director and from 1988 to 1993 as 1st Vice President for the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . Together with the then Finance Minister Hannes Androsch and the President of the National Bank Stephan Koren , he played a key role in the implementation of Austria's hard currency policy. Kienzl appeared as a committed advocate of the peaceful use of nuclear energy and as an early advocate of a common European currency.

He oversaw four non-university research institutes.

Kienzl died on January 29, 2020 at the age of 98.

Works (excerpt)

Economy and Ideology, 1971
Antisemitism Research in Austria, 1987
40 years of stability. The turn of the millennium in red-white-red, 1991
We affirmed progress, 1991
A new spring will bloom in the homeland, 2002
The time of Anton Benya, 2007
Anton Benya and Austro-Socialism , 2012

literature

Michaela Hudler, Susanne Kirchner, Claudia Palt (eds.): Insights into the life of Heinz Kienzl , Vienna 1998
Patrick Horvath, Herbert Skarke, Rupert Weinzierl (eds.): The “Vision of Central Europe” in the 21st century. Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Heinz Kienzl , Vienna 2012.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinz Kienzl in the catalog of the German National Library
Heinz Kienzl. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
Entry on Heinz Kienzl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ Eric Frey: Heinz Kienzl, architect of Austria's economic policy, has died. In: derstandard.at . January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.
↑ OeNB mourns the loss of its long-standing Director General Dr. Heinz Kienzl. In: ots.at . Oesterreichische Nationalbank, January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Kienzl, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian trade unionist and bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 2020

[1] Eric Frey: Heinz Kienzl, architect of Austria's economic policy, has died. In: derstandard.at . January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.

[2] OeNB mourns the loss of its long-standing Director General Dr. Heinz Kienzl. In: ots.at . Oesterreichische Nationalbank, January 29, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020.