Johann August Malin Society
The Johann August Malin Society is an association in Bregenz . He is dedicated to researching contemporary Vorarlberg history, and especially its long-neglected topics such as anti-Semitism , Austrofascism and National Socialism . She also participates in public debates on these issues.
The company was named after Johann August Malin from Satteins , who was executed in 1942 for resisting the Nazi regime. On the 40th anniversary of his death in 1982, the Johann August Malin Society, the historical association for Vorarlberg, was founded.
The society currently has around 200 members. The current chairman of the Johann August Malin Society is the Dornbirn historian Werner Bundschuh .
The publications of the Malin Society appear primarily in the publishing house of the Vorarlberger Authors Society .
With the Lexicon Persecution and Resistance in Vorarlberg 1933-1945 , from a book publication by the Malin Society from 1985 that has since been out of print, essential documentation on Vorarlberg contemporary history is now available again. The company's website documents its ongoing activities; Participations in public debates, earlier projects or texts accompanying social history exhibitions are documented in the website's archive. Scientific texts that are no longer easily accessible are also made available online for the company's work areas.