Michael Breisky

Michael Breisky (born December 29, 1940 in Lisbon ) is a former Austrian diplomat and, as a critic of globalization, author of numerous publications on Leopold Kohr and his teaching.

Life

Michael Breisky grew up as the son of the Austrian exiles Baron Hubert von Breisky and Hildegard von Breisky in Lisbon, where his father worked as a cultural attaché at the German embassy. In 1945 the family returned to Vienna. Breisky studied law in Vienna (Dr. iur.) And graduated from the Diplomatic Academy Vienna .

Diplomatic service

In 1967 Michael Breisky became an employee of the Foreign Service of the Austrian Foreign Ministry . His first foreign posts were in Rio de Janeiro, Oslo and Nairobi. In 1982 Breisky was promoted to consul general of Austria in Milan. Subsequently, he worked, among other things, as head of the South Tyrol department in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and as chairman of the Austrian commission to examine the autonomy of South Tyrol, played a key role in the amicable settlement of the South Tyrol conflict in 1992.

Michael Breisky was the Austrian ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1999 . He then became head of the United States Department in the State Department and in 2003 Consul General in New York. In 2005 Breisky ended his diplomatic career.

Scientific activity

His occupation and expertise in issues of minority protection , autonomy , regionalism and ethics led Breisky to an intensive examination of the ideas of Leopold Kohr even before his retirement , and to the (co-) establishment of the scientific advisory board of the Leopold Kohr Academy in Salzburg . In 2008, Breisky accepted the invitation to a lecture tour on Leopold Kohr at six Chinese universities .

“ The linear reasoning of the Enlightenment gave rise to great ideas that know no self-restraint and therefore tend to be excessive. The necessary human measure can be found either in a manageable environment - which is evaluated holistically by the biologically "old" part of the human brain - or by juxtaposing idea and complementary counter-idea. Examples are efficiency and resilience, competition and cooperation, democracy and hierarchy, tolerance and identity "

- Michael Breisky

Works

Books:

• With 'Austrian Mind' outside the box. The advantages of holistic, pragmatic thinking (= edition Widerhall, Vol. 1). Perchtoldsdorf 2020.
• Human measure against greed and hatred - small-is-beautiful in the 21st century , 2018 by Frank & Frei, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-903236-18-9
• Sketches from the diplomatic war Lisbon - What Hubert and Hildegard Breisky told me about their years in Portugal 1940–1945 , special edition Frank & Frei, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903236-24-0
• Big is clumsy - Leopold Kohr in the age of post-globalization. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-924-5
• Welcome to Post-Globalization - The Politics of Second Enlightenment, Human Scale and the Economy of the Mind . New European Publications, London 2009 ISBN 978-1-872410-76-0
• The compass in your head - human standards and politics in the 21st century . Otto Müller Verlag , Salzburg 2003 ISBN 3-7013-1088-2

Items:

• “Populism and elite arrogance”, magazine Frank & Frei 06/18, Vienna “Vision for less efficiency, but more resilience”, Rotary magazine August 2017, Hamburg
• China, Process Philosophy and Leopold Kohr. Journal of the European-Atlantic Group, Autumn / Winter 2009/2010, London
• Dealing with Minorities - a Challenge for Europe. Lecture / Publication Queens University, Belfast, 1998
• On the psychology of minority politics - the taboo of the subjective and the lack of contrat national. European Rundschau, No 4/1996, Vienna

Web links

• Homepage of Michael Breisky
• Literature by and about Michael Breisky in the catalog of the German National Library