Otto Scrinzi

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Otto Scrinzi (born February 5, 1918 in Lienz , Tyrol ; † January 2, 2012 in Moosburg (Carinthia) ) was an Austrian neurologist , publicist and politician ( VdU / FPÖ ).

Scrinzi was the leading representative of the German national wing in the so-called third camp of Austrian politics. While he described himself as " national-conservative ", " right-wing " and " right-wing conservative " and was described by FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache as a "liberal veteran" who " has always lived the values ​​of our community of faith in the FPÖ ", He was classified by many outside the FPÖ as a right-wing extremist .

Life

Scrinzi attended high school, made in 1936 Matura , studied in Innsbruck , Riga , Konigsberg and Prague and earned his doctorate 1941 . He was an SA storm leader and a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 7,897,561), as well as a member of the NSD student union . From 1940 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Hereditary and Racial Biology at the University of Innsbruck . From 1950 he worked as a neurologist and from 1955 to 1983 he was the primary physician (chief physician) in the psychiatric men's department of the Klagenfurt regional hospital . In 1973 he became a lecturer at the University of Graz .

From 1949 to 1956 Scrinzi was a member of the Carinthian state parliament and both club chairman and regional chairman of the "Association of Independents" ( VdU ), the predecessor party of the FPÖ. Since 1966 he had regular contacts with the Nazi war criminal Walter Reder in Gaeta . In 1968 Scrinzi was elected deputy party chairman against the will of the FPÖ board. From March 30, 1966 to June 4, 1979 Scrinzi was a member of the FPÖ in the National Council, South Tyrol spokesman for his party and, since 1977, deputy FPÖ club chairman. In 1978 he was a co-signer of the appeal of the Deutsche National-Zeitung (No. 45 of November 3, 1978) for a general amnesty for Nazi crimes. In 1979 at the University of Vienna, Scrinzi gave a lecture on the "minority issue" to tumult. 1981 Foundation of the group “Aktion für Österreich”. He then took part in DVU events in Passau almost every year . He was awarded the "Andreas Hofer Prize" in 1985 by the DVU as part of a major event in Passau's Nibelungenhalle , which was endowed with DM 10,000.

In 1984 he founded the "National Freedom Action" (NFA) as an opposition to the FPÖ policy of the then federal party leader Norbert Steger , which in his opinion was too liberal. He ran for the Federal President's election in 1986 and failed with 1.2% of the valid votes cast. After the 18th federal party conference of the FPÖ in Innsbruck in September 1986, at which the election of Jörg Haider as federal party chairman triggered a shift to the right, Scrinzi became reconciled with his party. In 1992 he became chairman of the German Cultural Association Austria . After Haider founded the Alliance Future Austria as a split from the FPÖ, he broke with his former protégé, whom he described as the “destroyer of the third camp”, and sided with the FPÖ, which he advised “do nothing with people like Haider, Westenthaler , Grosz ”.

For 14 years Scrinzi was a delegate in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and in the General Assembly of the United Nations as well as a board member of the Austro-Korean Society.

Johannes Voggenhuber was his son-in-law.

Journalistic activity

Scrinzi was active as a journalist, among other things he wrote articles for " Die Aula " , for which he also acted as editor , the "Eckartbote" , the "Facts" , the " National-Zeitung - German weekly newspaper " , the "Kärntner Nachrichten" , the "New Free Newspaper" , the "New Order" etc. He also published a number of books, including in the Leopold Stocker Verlag and the Eckardtschriften of the Austrian Landsmannschaft .

He was also known for activities in the European right-wing extremist scene. Among other things, he took part in the annual IJzerbedevaart in Flanders, which at the time had to contend with attempts at right-wing extremist infiltration. Multiple he was a speaker at the " Society for Free Journalism " (GAP) and the " Association for democratic politics " (AFP), which in 2005 , according to constitutional expert Heinz Mayer "massively against the provisions of the Prohibition Act violated" has.

Awards

Scrinzi was the recipient of the Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Fonts

  • Politics between ideology and science (= Eckartschriften. H. 92, ZDB -ID 26407-6 ). Austrian Landsmannschaft, Vienna 1984.
  • Carinthia - a thousand years and seventy (= Eckartschriften. H. 114). Austrian Landsmannschaft, Vienna 1990.
  • as editor: I am proud to be German. The answer to the polluters. (2000 great achievements from past and present). DSZ-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-925924-10-8 .
  • South Tyrol - a second Alsace? (= Eckartschriften. H. 128). Austrian Landsmannschaft, Vienna 1994.
  • The South Tyrol question (= German history in the 20th century. ). Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Rosenheim 1998, ISBN 3-920722-53-1 .
  • Politician and doctor in turbulent times Stocker, Graz et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7020-1026-2 .
  • From people without space to space without people. From the demographic odyssey of a people (= Eckartschrift. H. 175, ZDB -ID 2027111-6 ). Österreichische Landsmannschaft, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902350-12-1 .

literature

  • Andreas Pittler : Using Otto Scrinzi as an example. Right-wing extremists in Austria. Action Committee against Nazi Revival, Vienna 1986.
  • Lothar Höbelt : Festschrift for Dr. Otto Scrinzi on his 75th birthday (personal history series of the Freiheitliche Bildungswerk). Freiheitliches Bildungswerk, Vienna 1993.
  • Brigitte Bailer , Wolfgang Neugebauer : Handbook of Austrian right-wing extremism. Published by the Documentation Archive Foundation of the Austrian Resistance. Updated and expanded new edition, 2nd edition. Deuticke, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-216-30099-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ORF -Carinthia: Otto Scrinzi dead - mourning at FPK / FPÖ , accessed on January 23. 2012
  2. ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung : "I am a fundamentalist and not an extremist" , February 2, 2008
  3. ↑ Die Presse : Former FPÖ Vice President Otto Scrinzi died on January 3, 2012
  4. ↑ Der Standard : Rathkolb: "Scrinzi was on the right-wing extremist edge of the FPÖ" , January 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Die Presse : Instead of Ehekrach - Politics at the Breakfast Table , October 29, 2010
  6. ↑ The Aula: What The Aula Is. ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Legal opinion from o. Univ. Prof. DDr. Heinz Mayer on the “Working Group for Democratic Politics” (AFP) and the “Union of Free Youth” (BfJ) , (PDF file, 189 kB) at the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance
personal data
SURNAME Scrinzi, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neurologist, journalist and politician (VdU, FPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the national council
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2012
Place of death Moosburg (Carinthia)