Kurt Scholz
Kurt Scholz (born August 19, 1948 in Ernstbrunn , Lower Austria ) is chairman of the future fund of the Republic of Austria. He was the special commissioner of the city of Vienna for restitution and forced labor issues and the executive president of the city school council. He is a columnist for the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse .
Live and act
Kurt Scholz studied German and history at the University of Vienna and then worked as a teacher. In 1975 he became an employee of the Ministry of Education . There he was noticed by Helmut Zilk , who acted as minister from 1983 to 1984 , who brought him to the town hall after his move to the office of mayor of Vienna and appointed him to his personal staff (“presidential office”). Even at this time, Scholz, who was promoted to the Senate Council, was responsible, among other things, for the city hall's relations with the Jewish organizations and institutions in the city. With Zilk, who was extremely sociable and whom he often accompanied, Scholz had countless encounters at home and abroad.
In 1992 Zilk, as mayor and governor, formally president of the federal authority City School Council for Vienna , appointed him as the acting President of the City School Council. Scholz was particularly committed to the expansion of political education and the integration of foreign children and enabled the establishment of the Sir Karl Popper School . However , he did not have the best possible understanding with the city councilor Grete Laska , who was in charge of the school administration and the school buildings and who was not concerned with replacing party proportional representation in school operations with the performance principle, and was therefore not reappointed in 2001.
The senior senate councilor Kurt Scholz was from 2001 until his retirement at the end of October 2008 the restitution commissioner of the city of Vienna (“a title without funds”). His advocacy for the comprehensive return of confiscated assets and objects in the area of the Vienna city administration was based exclusively on his personal persuasiveness; for urban politics itself, the topic was mostly not in the area of increased attention. A successor for Scholz was not appointed. Because, according to Magistrate Spokesman Rudolf Gerlich: "The function was tailored to Scholz."
Professionally, Scholz has earned the reputation of an independently thinking intellectual. His columns in the Vienna daily newspaper Die Presse are evidence of this reputation.
In 2009 Scholz received the special prize for life's work for his fight against physical and psychological abuse in school and for violence prophylaxis as part of the Hans Czermak Prize for non-violent and tolerant child rearing.
At the beginning of 2011, Scholz was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria to succeed Waltraud Klasnic ; the fund has its office in the Vienna Hofburg . The future fund was created in 2006. It is endowed with the remaining funds from the Reconciliation Fund for the compensation of forced laborers and supports contemporary historical projects.
Kurt Scholz was married to the cultural manager Inge Scholz-Strasser ; the marriage was divorced.
Publications
- Kurt Scholz: It wasn't the phylloxera. The best columns from the press. Molden Verlag, Vienna 2006.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Scholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Restitution matters of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Trenkler: Himmelteich und Höllenqual , Der Standard , Vienna, February 10, 2009, p. 8
- ↑ Scholz takes over management of the future fund , Der Standard , Vienna, January 10, 2011
- ^ Website of the future fund
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SURNAME | Scholz, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian special representative of the City of Vienna for restitution and forced labor issues |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ernstbrunn |