Rudolf Haunschmied

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Rudolf Anton Haunschmied (* 1966 ) is an Austrian author and local researcher .

Life

Haunschmied grew up in St. Georgen an der Gusen and lives in Traun . Parallel to his training as a mechanical engineer, he was already engaged in researching the Nazi history of the Gusen concentration camp at a young age and was also able to infect his former secondary school teacher Martha Gammer with his interest .

In 1986 he was a founding member of the Working Group Homeland, monuments and historical Care St. Georgen (AHDG) and later of the enshrined therein memorial service committees Gusen (Gusen Memorial Committee, GMC). In 1989, at the request of the municipality of St. Georgen, he published for the first time about his research efforts on the history of the local concentration camps, conducted excursions in the footsteps of the former concentration camps Gusen I , Gusen II and Gusen III , led study circles for many years and, in addition to his lecturing activities, continues to this day Researchers, students and relatives of concentration camp victims from all over the world.

In 1995, together with Pierre Serge Choumoff ( Amicale de Mauthausen , Paris) and others , he organized the first local-international commemoration in Gusen as part of a platform that spanned several political communities, and in 1997 he created the Mauthausen-Gusen Info-Pages on the Internet as a relevant international exchange forum . In 1996 and 1997 he was the initiator of two town twinning arrangements and, at the invitation of the Austrian Federal Minister of the Interior, participated in the Mauthausen reform initiative in 2000, which in 2004 led to the opening of a new visitor center at the Gusen Memorial. In 2012, Haunschmied also made materials available for the newly designed permanent exhibition at the Mauthausen Memorial.

From 2005 to 2007 he was involved in the realization of the art project Audioweg Gusen , for which he also took on honorary protection among others . Haunschmied is also a co-founder of the Johann Gruber platform, which has been working on the implementation of a Denk.Statt for the Upper Austrian priest and educator Johann Gruber in the parish of St. Georgen an der Gusen since 2011 .

As an author, he has worked for decades on numerous publications and documentations by other authors, some also for radio and television, and for many years has been campaigning for adequate monument protection of the structural remains of the Gusen concentration camp and the opening of part of the former underground aircraft factory B8 Rock crystal from the former Gusen II concentration camp. Haunschmied has also been a participant in the round table of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office since 2009 .

Consultant Rudolf A. Haunschmied, as a representative of the Gusen Memorial Service Committee, also holds board positions in the "Platform Johann Gruber " association and in the Mauthausen-Gusen-St. Georgen out.

Works

  • In memory of 1938/1945. In: 300 years of expanded market law in St. Georgen ad Gusen. St. Georgen a. d. Gusen 1989, online (PDF; 5.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp Info-Pages on gusen.org, 1997 to date.
  • History walks in St. Georgen and Gusen. Organized from 1993 to 2005 as part of the adult education center of the Chamber of Labor, local office St. Georgen an der Gusen.
  • Gusen concentration camp. In: Our home in the district of Perg. Association for the publication of a district homeland book , Perg 1995.
  • Gusen - a manifestation of Austrian oblivion? In: Christoph Mayer: The invisible camp - Gusen audio path. Berlin 2007.
  • Co- author with Alfred Grau: The collapse in 1945 as we experienced it. In: St. Georgener Heimatblätter. 2007.
  • Co-author with Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 9783833474408 , available as Google Book St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen
  • Getta la pietra! Il lager di Gusen-Mauthausen , Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2008.
  • Federal Ministry of the Interior: On the current discussion about rock crystal. Documentation, Vienna 2009.
  • B8 Bergkristall - Historical Visit of the International Mauthausen Committee, May 7, 2010. Gusen Memorial Committee, 2010.
  • Nazi history 1938-1945. In: 400 years of the St. Georgen an der Gusen market. St. Georgen a. d. Gusen 2011.
  • Editor for Karl Littner: Life Hanging on a Spider Web - From Auschwitz-Zasole to Gusen II , BoD, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 9783842398405 , available as Google Book Life Hanging on a Spider Web
  • On the history of the Gusen part of the camp in the former Mauthausen-Gusen double camp. In: Survival through art - forced labor in the Gusen concentration camp for the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg. Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937527-52-9 .
  • The population of St. Georgen / Gusen and Langenstein. Dealing with camp history, rejection and initiatives to preserve it. In: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism in Poland and Austria - Inventories and Development Perspectives (proceedings for the conference at the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna in September 2010), Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631 -62461-6 .
  • On the importance of the parish area of ​​St. Georgen / Gusen as a key region for the exploitation of concentration camp prisoners by the Schutzstaffel. In: Think. Instead of Johann Gruber. New ways of remembrance culture. Wagner Verlag, Linz / Donau 2014, ISBN 978-3-902330-93-2 , PDF on dioezese-linz.at.
  • For the conquest of the Schutzstaffel in the St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen area. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 69th year, issue 3/4, Office of Upper Austria. State government, Culture Directorate, Linz / Danube 2015, ISBN 3-85393-021-2 .
  • The Jewish camp Gusen II and the underground Messerschmitt aircraft factory Bergkristall in St. Georgen ad Gusen. In: Joseph Fisher: The heavens were walled up. New Academic Press, Vienna 2017, p. 241 ff. ISBN 978-3-7003-1956-6 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New home in the concentration camp
  2. ↑ www.gusen.org
  3. ^ Gusen Memorial
  4. ^ Bulletin Mauthausen, Edition 01, May 2013
  5. ↑ Audioweg ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.audiowalk.gusen.org
  6. ↑ http://www.johann-gruber.at/
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bewusstseinsregion.at
personal data
SURNAME Haunschmied, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haunschmied, Rudolf Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1966