Rudolf A. Haunschmied

Rudolf Anton Haunschmied (born 1966 ) is an Austrian author and local historian.

Life and work

Haunschmied grew up in St. Georgen an der Gusen and lives in Traun. In addition to his training as a mechanical engineer, he has worked at a young age with the study of Nazi history around the Gusen concentration camp and could thus also his former secondary school teacher, Martha Gammer convince.

In 1986 he was a founding member of the working group for home, monuments and historical Care St. Georgen ( AHDG ) and later of the enshrined therein memorial service committees Gusen ( Gusen Memorial Committee - GMC). In 1989 he published at the request of the market town of St. Georgen first time about his research efforts on the history of the local concentration camp, led excursions through the traces of the former concentration camps Gusen I, Gusen II and Gusen III, many years led many study circles and accompanied in addition to his lectures until today researchers, students and relatives of victims of concentration camps from all over the world.

In 1995 he organized with Pierre Serge Choumoff ( Amicale de Mauthausen, Paris) and another in the context of several political communities spanning platform, the first locally - international commemoration in Gusen concentration camp created in 1997 as a relevant, international exchange forum for Mauthausen - Gusen Info - Pages on the Internet. In 1996 and 1997 he was the initiator of two twinning and had 2000 at the invitation of the Austrian Federal Minister of the Interior in the reform initiative Mauthausen, which led to the opening of a new visitor center at the Gusen Memorial 2004. Presented for the newly designed permanent exhibition of the concentration camp Mauthausen Memorial Haunschmied 2012 also materials available.

2005 to 2007 he was involved in the realization of the art project Audioweg Gusen, for which he has among others also taken over the patronage. Haunschmied is also co-founder of the platform Johann Gruber, who works at the Gusen since 2011 to implement a Denk.Statt for the Upper Austrian priest and educator Dr. Johann Gruber in the parish of St. Georgen.

As an author, he worked for decades and over again in numerous publications and documentation of other authors, partly also for radio and television, with and has for many years for an adequate conservation of the architectural remains of the concentration camp at Gusen and making available a portion of the former underground aircraft factory B8 rock crystal one of the former KZ Gusen II. Haunschmied in this regard, since 2009, participant in the Round Table of the Austrian Federal Monument Office.

Works

  • In Memory 1938-1945 (PDF; 5.5 MB), in: 300 years expanded Market Law St. Georgen / Gusen, St. Georgen ad Gusen, 1989
  • KZ Mauthausen - Gusen Info Pages [ www.gusen.org ], 1997 to date
  • History Walks in St. Georgen and Gusen, held in the years 1993 to 2005 as part of the Community College of Labour, Ortsstelle St. Georgen an der Gusen
  • Gusen concentration camp, in: Our home to the district Perg, Association for the Publication of a District History Book, 1995 Perg
  • Gusen - A manifestation Austrian forgetting, in: Christoph Mayer, The Invisible Camp - Audioweg Gusen, Berlin 2007
  • Co-authored with Alfred Gray: The collapse in 1945 as we saw him in St. Georgen homeland leaves ( 2007)
  • Co-authored with Jan- Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany - Durda: St. Georgen- Gusen - Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered, BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 9783833474408, called as Google Book St. Georgen- Gusen - Mauthausen
  • Getta la pietra! Il stock di Gusen - Mauthausen, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2008
  • Federal Ministry of the Interior: For current discussion about rock crystal, documentation, Vienna 2009
  • B8 Rock Crystal - Historical Visit of the International Mauthausen Committee, May 7, 2010, Gusen Memorial Committee, 2010
  • NS History 1938-1945, in 400 years of market St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen ad Gusen, 2011
  • Editor for Karl Littner: Life Hanging on a Spider Web - From Auschwitz to Gusen II Zasole, BoD, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 9783842398405, called as Google Book Life Hanging on a Spider Web
  • The history of the camp Gusen part in the former concentration camp Mauthausen - Gusen double bearing, In: survival through art - forced labor in concentration camps Gusen for the Messerschmitt plant in Regensburg, Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937527-52-9
  • The population of St. Georgen / Gusen and long stone. Dealing with the history of the camp, rejection and Preservation Initiatives, In: memorials to the victims of National Socialism in Poland and Austria - inventories and development prospects ( Proceedings of the Conference on the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in September 2010 in Vienna ), Peter Lang Edition Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-62461-6

Awards

  • Kulturpreisträger the market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen (1990 )
  • Award of the Province of Upper Austria - Ideas Competition for Adult Education ( 1995), Mitpreisträger as a proponent of the platform 75 years Republic - From Past to Future
  • Service Medal of the Province of Upper Austria (2008)
  • Counsel for Science of Government of Upper Austria (2013 )
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