Peter Weiß (publisher)

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Peter Weiß (right) with Jean-Jacques Langendorf

Peter Weiß (born June 19, 1942 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian business lawyer and publisher.

Life

Peter Weiß is the son of an orchestral musician and after completing his law degree and doctorate, he started a career in the banking industry. From 1987 to 1990 he was President of the Commission for International Business of the Confédèration Internationale des Banques Populares (CIBP) in Paris (later Brussels) and until 1998 head of the foreign department of the Austrian Volksbanks, then until 2002 member of the board of Volksbank International and until 2006 member of the Executive Committee of the CIPB. He is also - together with Jean-Jacques Langendorf  - founder and managing director of the Karolinger Verlag, founded in 1980 .

As part of his full-time occupation, Peter Weiß was co-founder and editor of the cooperative Schulze-Delitzsch series of publications together with Hans Hofinger in 1984.

Weiß is a translator and editor of works by Léon Bloy , Saint-Réal , Ernst Jünger , Armin Mohler , Louis de Bonald , Nicolás Gómez Dávila , Ezra Pound , Konstantin Leontjew , Joseph de Maistre and Martin Mosebach .

From 2003 to 2008, Weiß was a member of the University Council of the Art University Linz . His appointment by the Austrian government triggered criticism, among other things, of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , which saw in white a university council “with a fraternity or right-wing extremist background”.

According to Hannes Hintermeier, white corresponds to the “alternative to the ascetic intellectual”, and he has “an impressive portion of black humor that feeds a fine self-irony”. Peter Weiß is married to a French Germanist.

White is the old man of the Viennese academic fraternity Libertas .

Controversy

According representation of DÖW want Carolingian publishing 10% of the W3-Verlag hold, the owner of the weekly paper the time of the FPÖ -Funktionärs Andreas Mölzer was. According to another representation, it was a private loan of 10,000 Schillings to the private citizen Mölzer.

At a rally of the Ring of Freedom Students (RFS) on the anniversary of the surrender of Hitler Germany on May 8, 2003, Weiß was involved in fights. The complaint filed by the Austrian university students for bodily harm ended with an out-of-court settlement.

Translations

  • Léon Bloy: Salvation through the Jews. Jeanne d´Arc and Germany . Translated by Clemens ten Holder u. Peter Weiß (ed.). Karolinger, Vienna 2002 ISBN 3-85418-103-5 .
  • Emil Cioran : Notes 1957–1972. Ed. V. Simone Boué. Karolinger, Vienna and Leipzig 2011 ISBN 978-3-85418-143-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hannes Hintermeier : Just thinking is boring . In: FAZ , April 30, 2004, p. 52.
  2. ^ Association committees of the Austrian Cooperative Association
  3. ^ Annual report 2008 of the Austrian Volksbanks .
  4. ↑ Its transmission is rated as “excellent”, see Andreas Dorschel : Enlightened Counter-Enlightenment . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 30, 2008, p. 16
  5. ↑ Andreas Dorschel : The masses are there to die . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 29, 2007, p. 18
  6. ↑ Sigrid Löffler : When people said "Horreur" about kitsch . ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Cicero , July 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ UNIVERSITY COUNCIL - term of office June 2, 2008 to February 2013 .
  8. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten : Concerns about Uni-Rat proposal , February 25, 2003.
  9. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans". Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 385.
  10. ↑ Heribert Schiedel : " Regulate Austria again": Tax money for the apron organ of right-wing extremism . DÖW , Vienna, November 2001.
  11. ^ Karl Öllinger: News from the right margin. Vienna, February 2009 ( Memento from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ May 8 fisticuffs in demonstration in front of the University of Vienna . In: Der Standard , May 9, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Know, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian business lawyer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten