Taras Borodajkewycz

Taras Borodajkewycz (* October 1, 1902; † January 3, 1984 in Vienna, until 1919 Taras of Borodajkewycz ) was an Austrian Nazi historian. From 1955 until his forced retirement in 1966 he was a professor at the University of World Trade in Vienna (now Vienna University of Economics ).

Life

Taras Borodajkewycz was born in 1902, born as the son of galizischstämmigen officials Borodajkewycz Vladimir and his wife Henriette lion. In the literature cited, father Borodajkewycz have in kk Department of Transportation worked; However, at that time there was no ministry that name. The father was, as appears from entries in address book Vienna Lehmann, engineer and official of the kk Ministry of Railways directly below k.k. State Railways, most recently with the official title Oberbahnrat.

There to Taras ' birthplace different Information: In addition to Baden bei Wien, the Ukraine and the former Galicia is specified. It should be grown in Baden near Vienna. His father appears in the Viennese address for the first time in 1905 ( 8, Bennoplatz 8), lived 1916 in the Penzinger Road 126 near the Vienna Penzing station (then 13, since 1938 the 14th district ) and then had to address book edition 1925 3 district, Petrusgasse 11, reported. Whether his son Taras has lived in each case with him, can not be ascertained on the web.

In the interwar period Taras Borodajkewycz belonged to the Catholic- nationalist camp by the Christian Social Party, the leading government party, to where it was trying to connect with Catholic German national thought. No later than the mid-1930s he fell under the spell of the ( at that time in Austria illegal) NSDAP. After a broken theology and philosophy at the University of Vienna Borodajkewycz graduated in 1932 in History and shortly after became assistant to the historian Heinrich Ritter von Srbik, " Old Mr. " Wiener fraternity Gothia. His dissertation was entitled Konstantin von Höfler recovery time. A contribution to the intellectual discussion of Catholicism with the German thought in the first half of the 19th century. , He became the Dr. phil. doctorate.

From January 1934 to 1945 he was a member of the banned until 1938 in Austria NSDAP. He was a member of the fraternity KAV Norica Wien, joining member connecting the CV, starting in 1933 in the breakaway ÖCV. Immediately after the Second World War, when the corresponding compound bodies could meet again, he was expelled because of his Nazi involvement.

University career

1937 Borodajkewycz became a lecturer at the University of Vienna in the corporate state dictatorship. During the Nazi dictatorship from 1942 to 1945 he was an associate professor of history at the German University in Prague.

In 1946, he was classified as " minority -loaded " and thus reached his denazification. In 1949 Borodajkewycz together with other formerly prominent Nazis on the upper Weiser conference. Due to its good relations with the People's Party, in particular to then Minister of Education Heinrich Drimmel and the later Federal Chancellor Josef Klaus, who had been active in the First Republic as a top official of the anti-Semitic German students, Borodajkewycz received in 1955 a professor of economic history at the former World Trade University, the today's economy, University of Vienna.

His continuing sympathy for National Socialism were obvious; in his lectures he made repeated neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic statements, with whom he became a favorite of the then majority of right-wing students.

Borodajkewycz affair

From 1 December 1961, wrote the then 19 - year-old student Ferdinand Lacina, later SPD finance minister, in a lecture Borodajkewycz whose political commentary with. The professor described, for example, Rosa Luxembourg as a " Jewish Massenaufpeitscherin " and praised Hitler's speech of 15 March 1938 a mass rally on the Heldenplatz in Vienna immediately after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich.

1962 thematized the young lawyer Heinz Fischer, was elected President of Austria in 2004, in the social-democratic media Arbeiter-Zeitung and the future using the Lacina transcripts democratic education at Austrian universities and grabbed Borodajkewycz to because of his questionable practice lecture. In order not to jeopardize Lacinas graduation, Fischer was the source of his allegations anonymity. The transcripts were submitted to the judge only anonymous; Therefore fishermen (about two months' wages of an employee at the time) was sentenced in an excited Borodajkewycz of court proceedings for defamation to a fine of 4,000 shillings. Borodajkewycz felt vindicated by the verdict in his views and let his attitude in lectures hinted strengthened.

1965 handed over the later newspaper founder Oscar Bronner his father, the cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner, Lacinas material. Bronner processed it in his satirical television show " valve time " in the ORF in the form of a fictional interviews with the professor, with his answers to the questions posed original quotes Borodajkewicz ' were. The claimant confirmed his statements two days later in a press conference and referred to the university autonomy and freedom of research. His opponent voted "Against fascism " as a motto.

On March 26, 1965 Borodajkewycz was " three or four unknown youths " attacked in front of his residence in Vienna, but not injured. His son accompanying him Olaf " suffered injuries mild degree on the upper lip ."

On March 31, 1965 demonstrated representatives of student organizations, former resistance fighters and trade unionists in Vienna in the inner city against Borodajkewycz. During the collision with the " ring Freiheitlicher students " (RFS ), the student organization of the Freedom Party, organized counter-demonstration of former resistance fighters Ernst Günther Kirchweger Kümel at Hotel Sacher was struck down with a punch in the face; he suffered injuries from which he died two days later. Kirchweger was later called the first political casualty of the Second Republic.

In April 1965, the defamation case against Fischer was resumed. On the basis of the statement Lacinas (who had now finished his studies ) the judgment was set aside against Fischer; Borodajkewicz ' appeal against it was dismissed.

Finally Borodajkewycz was - after a long resistance of the competent minister of education Theodor Piffl - Percevic - 1966 compulsorily retired on full pay. In the following years he published some texts, eg in the " Eckart writings" of the Austrian country team.

Writings

• Konstantin von Höfler recovery time. A contribution to the intellectual discussion of Catholicism with the German thought in the first half of the 19th century [ University ] Wien, Phil dissertation on 3 February 1932.
• Saint Germain. Dictation to self-determination. Eckart writings Issue 31, Austrian country team, Vienna 1969.
• Milestones in the history of Austria. Eckart writings Issue 42, Austrian country team, 1972.