Otto Scrinzi

Otto Scrinzi ( born February 5, 1918 in Lienz, Tyrol, † January 2, 2012 in Moosburg ( Carinthia ) ) was an Austrian neurologist, publicist and politician ( VdU / FPO ).

Scrinzi was a leading representative of the German national wing of the so-called third camp of Austrian politics. While he himself, " right" and " pretty conservative " referred to as "national- conservative " and about of FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache called " liberal veteran " that " has always lived the values ​​of our disposition Community of the Freedom Party " means, he was rated by many outside of the FPÖ as a right-wing extremist.

Life

Scrinzi attended high school, made 1936 graduation, he studied in Innsbruck, Riga, Königsberg and Prague and received his doctorate in 1941. He was the SA storm leader and member of the NSDAP (member number 7897561 ), as he was also a member of the NSD - Student Association. From 1940 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Heredity and Race Biology, University of Innsbruck. Since 1950 he worked as a nerve specialist and was from 1955 to 1983 chief physician ( chief physician ) at the psychiatric department of the regional hospital men Klagenfurt. In 1973 he was a lecturer at the University of Graz.

From 1949 to 1956 was deputy in the Carinthian parliament Scrinzi and both club chairman as well as State Chairman of the "Association of Independents " ( Union of Independents ), predecessor of the Party of Freedom Party. Since 1966 he had regular contacts with the Nazi war criminal Walter Reder, Gaeta. 1968 Scrinzi was elected against the will of the board of the Freedom Party deputy party chairman. From March 30 1966 to 4 June 1979, Scrinzi deputy of the National Freedom Party, South Tyrol spokesman of his party and Deputy since 1977 Freedom Party Parliamentary Group Leader. In 1978 he was a signatory to the call of the Deutsche National-Zeitung (No. 45 of 3 November 1978) to achieve a general amnesty for Nazi crimes. 1979, came to the University of Vienna in a lecture Scrinzis about the " minority question " riot. 1981 Founding of the group " Action for Austria ". He then took almost every year in the events of the DVU in part in Passau. He was " Price Andreas Hofer " awarded by the DVU in the context of a major event in the Passau Nibelungenhalle 1985 with the one who was endowed with DM 10,000.

In 1984 he founded the " National Freedom Action " (NFA ) as an opposition to the FPÖ policy of the then Federal Party chairman Norbert Steger, who was too liberal in his view. He ran in 1986 at the Federal Presidential election and failed in 1.2 % of the valid votes cast. After the 18th national convention of the Freedom Party in Innsbruck in September 1986, in which the election for federal party leader Jörg Haider caused a shift to the right, to Scrinzi reconciled with his party. He became chairman of the German Cultural Factory Austria 1992. After the US-led Haider founding of the Alliance for Austria's Future as a split from the FPÖ he broke with his former protégé, whom he described as a " destroyer of the third camp", and he stood on the side of the Freedom Party, which he advised " not with people such as Haider, West Thaler to make Grosz ".

Scrinzi was for 14 years a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, as well as board member of the Austrian-Korean society.

Journalistic activity

Scrinzi was brisk active in journalism, among other things, he wrote articles for " The Great Hall ", in which he also acted as a " font manager ", the " Eckart messenger ", the "facts" of the "Deutsche National-Zeitung ", the "Deutsche weeks newspaper "the" Carinthian News ", the" Neue Freie Zeitung, " ", " new Order, etc. He also published a number of books, including the Leopold Stocker Verlag and the Eckardt writings of the Austrian country team.

He was also known for activities in the European extreme right. Among other things, he participated in the annual IJzerbedevaart in Flanders, which then had to contend with attempts of right-wing infiltration. Several times he was a speaker at the "Society for Free Journalism " ( GAP ) and the " Working Group for democratic politics " ( AfP ), the " massive breach of the provisions of the Prohibition Act " in 2005, according to constitutional expert Heinz Mayer.

Awards

Scrinzi was a recipient of the Gold Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Writings

  • Politics between ideology and science, ( Eckart writings Vol 92) Austria. Country Team, Vienna 1984.
  • Carinthia - A Thousand years, and seventy ( Eckart writings Vol 114) Austria. Country Team, Vienna 1990.
  • I am proud to be German. The answer to the traitor. 2000 great achievements of the past and present, Edited by Otto Scrinzi. DSZ -Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-925924-10-8.
  • South Tyrol - a second Alsace, ( Eckart writings Vol 128) Austria. Country Team, Vienna 1994.
  • The South Tyrol question ( German history in the 20th century) German publishing company, Rosenheim 1998, ISBN 3-920722-53-1.
  • Politician and physician in turbulent times, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-7020-1026-2.
  • From room to room without people without people. From the demographic odyssey of a people ( Eckart font Vol 175 ) Austrian. Country Team, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902350-12-1.
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