Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is a prominent historian and the of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.

Maislinger studied law and political science in Salzburg and political science and eastern-European history in Vienna, with study visits in, amongst others, Frankfurt am Main and Innsbruck. In 1980 he was awarded the doctorate for a dissertation on the problems of Austrian defence policies. His subsequent posts included the University and the Institute for Political Science of Innsbruck, the University of New Orleans as a visiting assistant professor, the Humboldt University of Berlin for a research stay, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1982 he co-founded the working group of independent peace-initiatives of Austria and in 1986 was a member of the founding committee of the Austrian-Israeli society Tirol.

Since 1992 Maislinger has served as the scientific director of the annual Braunau Contemporary History Days in Braunau am Inn.

With Andreas Hörtnagl, Maislinger was the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service. He successfully pleaded for the legal establishment of this kind of compensation for military service, which aimed at education and enlightenment on the Holocaust.

Until 1996 he published columns in the "Jüdische Rundschau" (Jewish Review). 1998 he founded the Austrian Association for Service Abroad. He also participates actively in projects promoting gifted children.

Since 2003 he is in charge of the Georg Rendl Symposion. He had founded the symposium to engage with the life and works of the painter and author Georg Rendl, whom Maislinger had already met as a child in his hometown St. Georgen/Salzburg.

In 2005 Maislinger received the Decoration of Honour in Silver for services to the Republic of Austria from Federal President Heinz Fischer.

English Publications

(Selection)

*"Friedensbewegung in einem neutralen Land. Zur neuen Friedensbewegung in Österreich". ("Peace movement in a neutral country. Related to the new peace movement in Austria".) In: "Medienmacht im Nord-Süd-Konflikt". ("The power of media in the north – south conflict".) Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1984 ISBN 3-518-11166-3
*"Neue" Österreichische Friedensbewegung". ("New“ Austrian Peace Movement".) In: "Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Politik 1983". ("Austrian Annual for Politics 1983".) Vienna, 1984
*"Das katholisch-konservative Lager". ("The catholic – conservative side".) In: "Widerstand und Verfolgung in Tirol 1934-1945", Band 2. ÖBV, ("Resistance and Persecution in Tirol 1934-1945", Band 2. Austrian book publisher), Vienna 1984 ISBN 3-215-05368-3
*"Den Nationalsozialisten in die Hände getrieben". Zur Geschichtspolitik der SPÖ von 1970 bis 2000". ("Drifted into the National Socialists Hands“. Related to the history politics of the Socialists in Austria from 1970 to 2000".) In: "Europäische Rundschau", ("European review"), number 3/2001

Publishing

*"Costa Rica. Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur eines Staates mit ständiger aktiver und unbewaffneter Neutralität." ("Costa Rica, Politics, Society and Culture of a State with Continuous Active and Unarmed Neutrality".) Inn-Verlag, Innsbruck 1986 ISBN 3-85123-091-4
*"Der Putsch von Lamprechtshausen. Zeugen des Juli 1934 berichten." ("The Putsch of Lamprechtshausen. Report of Witness to July, 1934"), Self - published, Innsbruck 1992 ISBN 3-901201-00-9

External links

* http://www.auslandsdienst.at/intro/US.htm
* http://www.gedenkdienst.org
* http://www.gedenkdienst.info