Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf
Charlotte M. Teuber - Weckersdorf (* 1923 in Vienna, † 16 February 1998) was an Austrian political scientist and art historian. She was instrumental in the Mädchenpfadfinderei in Austria.
Life
Charlotte Teuber came from a conservative Catholic, set against Nazism family and was discriminated against after 1938 by the Nazi regime through school exclusion, so that she was denied a university education. During the Second World War, she worked as a nurse for the Red Cross, after the end of the war, in 1945, she graduated from the specially introduced for the Politically Persecuted Berufsreifeprüfung.
She studied archeology and art history in Innsbruck and in 1956 received his doctorate with a dissertation on the origins of ancient diptych. Then she took a degree in political science at Harvard University. She earned a Masters Degree there in 1960 and in 1978 under Stanley Hoffmann with a thesis on A pragmatic approach to world politics: the policies of nonalignment doctorate.
Due to good working contacts in Vienna, among others, Bruno Kreisky, she followed 1982, the invitation to a permanent visiting professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna, where she worked until her retirement in 1988 as a university professor. Although her last years were burdened by health problems, namely the consequences of malaria and a severe cancer, she remained scientifically and politically active to the last.
Teuber combined her work in political science with a political Engagent, which was marked by their social background and the experience of the Nazi period, but also by American liberalism. Your criticism of the Palestine Israel's policy has been accompanied by strict rejection of anti-Semitism, in the Waldheim case she took against the repression and forgetting in Austrian society position in the fight against xenophobia she was one of the initiators of the " Platform against xenophobia ". As a university teacher, she was distinguished by a special personal commitment to the needs of their students, particularly students from the Third World countries from.
In 1985, Teuber at a meeting of the leadership of the Ugandan National Resistance Movement (NRM ) in Unterolberndorfer village inn "Zum Grünen Jäger " part. They came together in a conspiratorial meeting and working out a political program for the liberated Uganda. The NRM is the " Unterolberndorfer Manifesto", on which is based the current constitution of Uganda, is based.
Scout activity
Her father William Teuber - Weckersdorf worked as a teacher at a military boarding school was the first in Austria with the Scout method of Robert Baden- Powell. The uncle Emmerich Teuber initiated one of the first Boy Scout troop in Vienna Erdberg. After the Second World War, her father founded, together with Alexei Stachowitsch the Austrian Scouts in Salzburg.
Charlotte Teuber - Weckersdorf has the history of Girl Scouts in Austria played a major role. After 1945, she directed the revival of the girl scouts in Salzburg, then in Austria. In August 1946, she organized the first leaders course and in April 1949 it was Austria's education boss and International Commissioner. From 1951 to 1957 she was leader of the Austrian Association of Girl Scouts. At the World Conference on the occasion of the 7th World Jamboree 1951 in Bad Ischl she met in Salzburg with Olave Baden -Powell together. After the Hungarian People's Revolution of 1956, she organized the relief work of the Girl Scouts in the refugee camp Traiskirchen.