Werner Bundschuh

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Werner Bundschuh (2019)

Werner Bundschuh (* 1951 ) is an Austrian historian , non-fiction author and teacher . He lives and works in Vorarlberg in Austria .

Life and education

Werner Bundschuh grew up in Dornbirn (Vorarlberg / Austria). His father, the druggist Willy Bundschuh († 1969), ran the "Löwen-Drugstore" in Dornbirn-Hatlerdorf, which after his death was continued as a "widow's business" by his mother and sister. Werner Bundschuh is married and has three grown children.

After the elementary school in Dornbirn-Markt he attended the Dornbirn secondary school and graduated in 1970. From 1971 to 1975 he completed a teaching degree for German and history at the University of Innsbruck . In 1989 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation on local history as an ideology. Study to depict the history of Dornbirn (1850–1950) . In 2002 he completed the university course in political education at the “Inter-University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Further Education of the Universities of Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna” with the title “ Master of Advanced Studies ( Civic Education )”.

Professional activities

Teaching

Werner Bundschuh taught German, history, political education , stage play and chess at the Bundesgymnasium Dornbirn (formerly Realschule) from 1975 to 2011 and was most recently senior teacher . Since 1983 he has worked as a lecturer at the Center for Distance Learning in Bregenz ( Johannes Kepler University Linz ) . From 2009 to 2016 he was a staff member at Remember.at, National Socialism and Holocaust: Memory and Present. In addition, he is a speaker at the trade union school of the ÖGB / Vorarlberg.

Activity as a historian

As a historian, he primarily deals with questions of regional contemporary history with a focus on National Socialism . In 1987 he edited the Dornbirner Statt stories together with Harald Walser , and in 1990 he published the volume inventory: Heimat Dornbirn 1850–1950 . The focus of his work in the following years is on dealing with right-wing extremism , with local historiography - for example Schlin's 1850-1950, industrial history, history of domestic social democracy, trade union history , migration history and, above all, he dealt with history (together with Margarethe Ruff ) of forced labor in Vorarlberg. A particular concern of his was the erection of a resistance warning and deserters memorial in Bregenz (2015), for which he also developed teaching materials.

societies

Bundschuh is a co-founder of the Vorarlberg Teachers' Initiative (VLI). and since 1991 chairman of the Johann-August-Malin-Gesellschaft , historical association for Vorarlberg. Until 2016 he was an employee at Remember.at . He is a member of the working group of Lake Constance history didactics.

literature

Werner Bundschuh has published various publications on regional and state history with a focus on contemporary history:

  • Werner Bundschuh, Harald Walser (Ed.): Dornbirner Statt-Histories. Vorarlberger Authors Society, Bregenz 1987, ISBN 3-900754-00-4 . ( Available online on the Johann-August-Malin-Gesellschaft )
  • Werner Bundschuh: Inventory: Heimat Dornbirn 1850–1950 , in Studies on the History and Society of Vorarlberg , Bregenz 1990, Vorarlberger Authors Society, ISBN 3-900754-08-X .
  • Werner Bundschuh, Meinrad Pichler, Harald Walser: Austria again! , Liberation and Reconstruction - Vorarlberg 1945 , Bregenz 1995, Vorarlberger Authors Society, ISBN 3-900754-16-0 .
  • Werner Bundschuh, Reinhard Mittersteiner: The beginnings of social democratic milieu culture in Dornbirn , The Dornbirner Workers' Home , Dornbirn 1996, Dornbirner Schriften 22, ISBN 3-85298-030-5 .
  • Werner Bundschuh: "We are young, the world is open ..." , on the history of the "Kinderfreunde" in Vorarlberg , studies on the history and society of Vorarlberg, Bregenz 1998, Vorarlberger Authors Society, ISBN 3-900754-22-5 .
  • Werner Bundschuh, Reinhard Mittersteiner, Werner Dreier: Social Democrats in the Village , 100 Years of SPÖ Hard , Bregenz 1994, Vorarlberger Authors Society, ISBN 3-900754-14-4 .
  • Werner Bundschuh, Reinhard Mittersteiner, Werner Dreier: The “factory workers” are organizing , 100 years of the Textile, Clothing and Leather trade union, Vorarlberg regional organization, Bregenz 1995 ( free download from malingesellschaft.at ).
  • Werner Bundschuh: Schlins 1850–1950 , Bregenz 1996, Vorarlberger Authors Society, ISBN 3-900754-18-7 .
  • Werner Bundschuh: About hiking and arriving. Biographical reports from Vorarlberg villages - Altach, Tosters, Mäder , studies on the history and society of Vorarlberg, Volume 16, Bregenz 2004, ISBN 3-900754-27-6 ( free download malingesellschaft.at ).
  • Werner Bundschuh: "The sun of freedom shines again over the free earth". The SPÖ regional organization Vorarlberg after 1945 . Ed .: Dr. Karl Renner Institute Vorarlberg. Bregenz 2005 ( available online on the SPÖ Rankweil website [PDF]).
  • Hanno Platzgummer, Karin Bitschnau, Werner Bundschuh (eds.): I cannot serve a state that is guilty ... , Vorarlberger before the courts of the Wehrmacht , Stadtmuseum, Dornbirn 2011, ISBN 978-3-901900-25-9 .
  • Margarethe Ruff (with the assistance of Werner Bundschuh): Minor prisoners of fascism , life stories of Polish and Ukrainian forced laborers in Vorarlberg , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5421-3 .
  • Werner Bundschuh, Werner Matt: People and Ideologies, the 1930s and 1940s in diaries and memories of Anton Turnher, Adolf Wohlgenannt and Heino Laschitz , Dornbirn 2018, Dornbirner Schriften 46, ISBN 978-3-901900-55-6 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Bundschuh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ enken.at, National Socialism and Holocaust: Gedächtnis und Gegenwart , website: Remember.at.
  2. ^ Trade union school (GS) , website of the ÖGB Vorarlberg.
  3. ↑ Free download: Dornbirner Statt stories .
  4. ↑ Free download: Inventory: Heimat Dornbirn 1850–1950 .
  5. ↑ Free download: Schlins 1850–1950 .
  6. ↑ Free download: The Vorarlberg textile industry and textile workers after the collapse of the "Third Reich" .
  7. ↑ Forced labor in Vorarlberg , website of the Johann August Malin Society.
  8. ^ Vorarlberg teachers' initiative .
personal data
SURNAME Bundschuh, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian, non-fiction author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1951