Mauthausen Committee Austria
| Mauthausen Committee Austria (MKÖ) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Educational and scientific work on the Mauthausen concentration camp |
| Chair: | Willi Mernyi |
| Establishment date: | 1997 |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | www.mkoe.at |
The Mauthausen Committee Austria carries out educational and scientific work on the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps in Austria . The association, founded in 1997, is the successor organization of the Austrian camp community Mauthausen.
definition
The Mauthausen Committee is defined as follows:
“Our association is non-partisan and non-denominational. We stand up for a free and democratic society and for the protection of human rights for all, regardless of nationality, political convictions and religion, and we work resolutely against all kinds of fascism, racism, neo-Nazism, chauvinism and anti-Semitism. "
job
With such guidelines, the committee is primarily concerned with commemorating the Nazi dictatorship and coming to terms with it, with work with young people playing an important role here. The committee also takes care of the educational and scientific support of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps. A “European Youth Meeting Center” is also planned for young people.
As part of the “ Comité International de Mauthausen ”, the Austrian Mauthausen Committee is in close contact with various partner organizations across Europe, such as the Amicale de Mauthausen in Paris , and organizes various commemorative and liberation ceremonies with them .
Throughout Austria, the Committee has subsidiary organizations in some states, on the one hand to have a national memorial network and also to the sub-camp to commemorate the Mauthausen were under direct or other sub-camps, which throughout Austria has given.
In August 2017, the Mauthausen Committee Austria published a brochure entitled “The FPÖ and right-wing extremism: Loud individual cases?”, In which right-wing extremist incidents within the FPÖ were documented. The list of right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi incidents in the FPÖ partially depicts this list of individual cases.
management
- Board of Directors: Willi Mernyi (Chairman), Wolfgang J. Bandion, Andreas Baumgartner, Benedikt Egger, Robert Eiter , Raimund Fastenbauer , Marko Feingold , Beate Gotthartsleitner, Helmut Gotthartsleitner, Peter Gstettner , Joachim Hainzl, Alexander Hauer, Ludwig Popper, Wolfgang Schönleitner and Adalbert Wagner.
- Board of Trustees: Christoph Schönborn , Erich Foglar , Oskar Deutsch , Ernst Nedwed, Gerhard Kastelic, Michael Bünker , Arsenios Kardamakis, Nicolae Dura, Rudolf Hundstorfer , Michael Häupl , Josef Pühringer , Rudolf Sarközi , Katja Sturm-Schnabl, Kurt Krickler , Brigitte Bailer , Hannah Lessing , Franz Vranitzky , Erhard Busek , Erika Weinzierl , Richard Schreiber, Helmut Schüller and Philipp Jost ( Federal Youth Council ).
Publications
The publication series Edition Mauthausen appears .
- Research project: Subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp as perceived by the local population (PDF), eyewitness reports. Project study. 2002.
Awards
In 2012 the committee received the Democracy Prize of the Margaretha Lupac Foundation . On December 11, 2013 the Mauthausen Committee Austria was awarded the Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna by City Councilor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny with memorial service founder Andreas Maislinger and ORF employee Irene Suchy . The historian Oliver Rathkolb gave the laudation .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Mernyi, Chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria
- ↑ derStandard: Sixty blue "individual cases": Brochure about FPÖ scandals
- ^ Presentation of the "Edition Mauthausen" in the Parliament Parliamentary Correspondence No. 279 of March 31, 2008
- ↑ Parliament of the Republic of Austria: Democracy Prize 2012 . Retrieved October 20, 2015.