Raimund Fastenbauer

Raimund Fastenbauer (* 1950 in Vienna ) was Secretary General of the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria and Secretary General for Jewish Affairs of the Jewish Community in Vienna from 2006 to 2019 . He is married and has two children.

He studied Jewish Studies and Political Science at the University of Vienna and Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics, where he graduated with a Masters in Social and Economic Sciences in 1975.

After decades of work in the private sector, he was elected General Secretary of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien for Jewish affairs in 2006, after having been a mandate on the Kultusrat (board of directors) of the Vienna Jewish community for many years. He is also one of the founding members of the school association of the Zwi-Peres-Chajes School and was deputy chairman of this association for many years.

Other functions: Board member of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and the Mauthausen Committee Austria and President of the Austrian Jewish Museum, Eisenstadt .

Raimund Fastenbauer has been active for years in the media sector within the framework of the Bnai Brith and the Kultusgemeinde, especially in the fight against old and new forms of anti-Semitism and agitation against Israel. In addition, he deals with interdenominational dialogue and was a lecturer at the Institute for Islamic Religious Education.

In 2018 he received the Dr. phil. of the University of Vienna with a dissertation supervised by Klaus Davidowicz and Ednan Aslan .

Since 2018 he has been a lecturer at seminars of the Austrian Integration Fund.

Publications

• Austria's solidarity against Israel. in the newspaper: "Die Gemeinde", Vienna, June / July 2002.
• The importance of the burial of Jews according to religious regulations. in: The drama Südostwallbau using the example of Rechnitz - actions, dates, facts, consequences. Symposium in the Landesmuseum Burgenland, Eisenstadt 2008.
• The spiritual crisis of Zionism. in: Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (Hrsg.): Israel - Past and Present. Braumüller-Universitäts-Verlagbuchhandlung, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7003-1695-4 .
• Using the example of the IKG, the role of religious communities as clock and adviser, but also those affected by politics. in Thomas Köhler, Christian Mertens (eds.): Yearbook for Political Advice, A classic alternative 2010/2011, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2011.
• The Jewish community in Austria. in Jüdische Diaspora Europa Ethnica special issue 3–4, Verlag Facultas, 2011.