Wolfgang Mantl

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Wolfgang Mantl (born March 18, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political scientist and lawyer. He is emeritus at the law faculty of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and editor of the studies for politics and administration (together with Christian Brünner and Manfried Welan ).

Life

Wolfgang Mantl studied law and received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Vienna , moved to a position at the Vienna University of Economics in 1965 at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , where he in 1974 General Administrative , Political Science and Austrian Constitutional Law habilitated . Until 2007 he was head of the Department of Political Science and General Political Science and Constitutional Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz and retired in 2007. Wolfgang Mantl is primarily dedicated to democratic theory , administrative politics, political party theory and the development analysis of political ideas and movements .

Mantl was visiting professor at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , the University of Friborg in Switzerland , the National Ivan Franko University in Lviv in the Ukraine, and from 2003 to 2008 held a lectureship in political science at the FH Joanneum in Graz. Mantl is married and has four children. He is a member of the Catholic student associations KaV Norica Vienna (since 1957), KÖHV Carolina Graz (since 1976), KÖStV Traungau Graz (since 1998) and KÖStV Babenberg Graz (since 2000) in the ÖCV

Public functions

Mantl worked on the reform of the Styrian state constitution from 1979 to 1990 , has been publishing studies for politics and administration since 1985 together with Christian Brünner and Manfred Welan and was co-editor of the Kleine Zeitung in 1985 . In 1987 and 1988 he was the scientific director of the socio-political forum of the ÖVP , which was convened by Alois Mock , and is considered to be the pioneer of this forum .

From 1992 to 2001 he was chairman of the association “Josef Krainer - Styrian Memorial Work” in Graz, since 1993 he has been a corresponding and since 1999 actual member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1993 to 1997 Mantl was a member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission and the Austrian Council for Science and Research in Vienna and from 1998 to 2004 a member of the Board of Trustees of the European Forum Alpbach . He is also a reviewer for the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank , the Austrian Research Foundation (ÖFG) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Awards

Publications

Mantl has acted as the editor of several books including:

  • with Alfred Klose, Valentin Zsifkovits (Hrsg.): Katholisches Soziallexikon . Innsbruck-Graz 1980.
  • with Christian Brünner, Manfried Welan (ed.): Studies on Politics and Administration , Vienna-Cologne-Graz, since 1981 (95 volumes so far).
  • with Kurt Freisitzer, Walter Höflechner , Hans-Ludwig Holzer (eds.): Tradition and Challenge. 400 years of the University of Graz . Graz 1985.
  • with Josef Krainer , Manfred Prisching , Michael Steiner (eds.): Thinking about politics. Beyond everyday life and this side of utopia . Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1985.
  • with Peter Berner, Emil Brix (ed.): Vienna around 1900. Departure into modernity . Vienna 1986.
  • with Erhard Busek , Meinrad Peterlik (eds.): Science and freedom. Ideas about university and universality . Vienna-Munich 1989.
  • The new architecture of Europe. Reflections in a threatened world . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1991.
  • Politics in Austria. The Second Republic: Existence and Change . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1992.
  • with Bernd-Christian Funk , Hans R. Klecatsky, Edwin Loebenstein , Kurt Ringhofer (eds.): Constitutional law and political sciences in times of change. Festschrift for Ludwig Adamovich on his 60th birthday . Vienna-New York 1992.
  • with Josef Krainer junior (ed.): Location determination. Politics-Economy-Europe . Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1993.
  • (Ed.): Efficiency of law production. International comparison of deregulation . Vienna 1995.
  • with Emil Brix (Ed.): Liberalismus. Perspectives and Interpretations . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1996.
  • with Alfred Ableitinger, Herwig Hösele (Hrsg.): The governors of Styria . Graz-Vienna-Cologne 2000.
  • (Co-editor): Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik , Graz since 2001 (9 volumes so far).
  • with Christian Brünner, Alfred J. Noll, Werner Pleschberger (eds.): Culture of Democracy. Festschrift for Manfried Welan on his 65th birthday . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2002.
  • with Bernd-Christian Funk , Gerhart Holzinger , Hans R. Klecatsky, Karl Korinek , Peter Pernthaler (eds.): The rule of law faces new challenges. Festschrift for Ludwig Adamovich junior on his 70th birthday . Vienna 2002.
  • with Franz Kreuzer, Maria Schaumayer (Ed.): Gigatrends. Exploring the future of our living environment . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2003.
  • with Franz Lackner (ed.): Identity and open horizon. Festschrift for Bishop Egon Kapellari on the occasion of his 70th birthday . Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt 2006.

He has also published scientific articles in journals and monographs, including:

  • The Austrian party state. The role and some current problems of the parties in the Austrian democracy . Leibnitz 1969.
  • Representation and Identity. Democracy in conflict . Vienna-New York 1975.
  • with Christian Brünner, Dietmar Pauger, Reinhard Rack : Constitutional Policy . Documentation Styria . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1985.
  • Policy analysis. Studies on pluralistic democracy . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2007.

The following books have been dedicated to him:

  • Joseph Marko, Klaus Poier (Hrsg.): Politics, State and Law in the Break of Time. Symposium on the occasion of Wolfgang Mantl's 60th birthday . Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2001.
  • Hedwig Kopetz, Joseph Marko, Klaus Poier (eds.): Sociocultural change in the constitutional state. Phenomena of political transformation. Festschrift for Wolfgang Mantl on his 65th birthday . Two volumes. Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthday: An Austrian Baroque person. Wolfgang Mantl in the 70s.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Mantl celebrates 65s ( Memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  4. ^ High national award for Mantl
  5. ↑ Directory of members: Wolfgang Mantl. Academia Europaea, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ em. o. Univ.-Prof. DDr.hc Wolfgang Mantl ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), www.graz.at, accessed on February 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ Parliament of the Republic of Austria: Science Prize 2013 . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mantl, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria