Austrian Pacifists - Austrian Christian Pacifists, Austrian Conscientious Objectors, Bertha Von Suttner, Martin Buber, Leopold Engleitner, (Paperback)

Chapters: Austrian Christian Pacifists, Austrian Conscientious Objectors, Bertha Von Suttner, Martin Buber, Leopold Engleitner, Andreas Maislinger, Franz Jagerstatter, Wolfgang Dietrich, Alfred Hermann Fried, Johann Nobis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Beate Klarsfeld (left), Andreas Maislinger (middle).Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria ) is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days .Studying and learning 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 received his doctorate for a dissertation on the problems of Austrian defence policy. He subsequently held posts at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, the University of New Orleans as visiting assistant professor, the Humboldt University of Berlin for a research visit, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .In 1982 he co-founded the working group of independent peace initiatives of Austria and in 1986 he became a member of the founding committee of the Austrian -Israeli society Tirol . Until 1996, he published columns in the "Judische Rundschau" (Jewish Review).Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Young Austrian in Auschwitz (1992)Together with Andreas Hortnagl, Maislinger founded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) . He successfully pleaded for the legal establishment of this kind of alternative to mandatory military service, aiming at promoting education and raising awareness about the Holocaust .On September 1, 1992 the first young Austrian started his AHMS at the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau . Since then more th...