Willi Mernyi

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Willi Mernyi at the Festival of Joy (2014)

Willi Mernyi (born May 9, 1968 in Vienna ) is chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria and member of the audience council of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a heavy current fitter at Elin Union AG (ELIN), Mernyi was elected to the Central Youth Trust Council (1985–1988). After joining the Federal Youth Board (1991–2000) of the ÖGB and training in cultural management at the University of Linz , he became a member of the ÖGB Federal Board in 1993. In 1999 Mernyi took over the management of the department for campaigns, projects and target groups and in 2011 switched to the department for organization, coordination and service in the ÖGB.

Willi Mernyi has been federal manager of the parliamentary group of social democratic trade unionists since 2012 . On July 1, 2019, Willi Mernyi and Ingrid Reischl were appointed by the ÖGB Federal Executive Committee as Senior Secretary of the ÖGB on June 25, 2019.

Awards

Publications

  • with Christa Bauer: OUR? America - Austro-American flashlights in the course of the US election. Mauthausen Committee Austria, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7035-1357-2 .
  • with Michael Niedermair: disenchanting demagogues. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7035-1453-1 .
  • with Michael Niedermair: Stop the propaganda. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7035-1628-3 . (Audio CD)
  • with Andreas Baumgartner and Christa Bauer: Nothing but old walls? The Mauthausen Guide training. Volume 2: Manual for the preparation and follow-up of visits to concentration camp memorials. Mauthausen Komitee, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902605-14-6 .
  • with Florian Wenninger: The Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp: Reports and Documents. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7035-1111-7 .
  • with Roman Hebenstreit and Michael Niedermair: With NLP to political success. The NLP manual for works councils, politically active and committed people. 5th, act. Edition. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7035-1500-2 .
  • Organize campaigns and actions successfully. 2., act. Edition. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7035-1306-0 .
  • Manual simulation games. Publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7035-1084-6 .
  • with Christa Bauer: Right-wing extremists: symbols. Codes. Music. Laws. Organizations. 3. Edition. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7035-1446-3 .

literature

  • Andreas Budin (Ed.): Young people write against forgetting. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7035-0979-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖGB-Katzian: New team for the interests of employees. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Federal Decoration of Honor 2009: For Tolerance and Human Rights. on the website of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (PDF)
  3. ^ City of Vienna: City of Vienna: Prizes for successful "remembering for the future". Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mernyi, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna