Florian friend

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Florian Freund (* 1953 in Vöcklabruck ) is an Austrian historian .

education and profession

Freund attended elementary school between 1960 and 1964 and then grammar school between 1964 and 1972. Between 1972 and 1987 he studied history at the universities of Salzburg , Graz and Vienna . Since 1981 he has worked on research projects at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and in 1987 he was taught by Erika Weinzierl on “The history of the Ebensee concentration camp. Missile Armament and Forced Labor ”to the Dr. phil. PhD. Between 1987 and 1999 he was a research assistant at the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance . He worked further in 1997 as a Research Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and has been a member of the editorial board of the journal zeitgeschichte and the Society for Contemporary History. From 1999 to 2002 Freund was also a member of the Austrian Commission of Historians and, in the summer semester, visiting professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj , Romania. His main research interests are in the areas of war economics , forced labor , concentration camps , the Holocaust and politics of persecution against "gypsies".

Works (selection)

  • The Wiener Neustadt concentration camp. Arms expansion and forced labor in the Rax plant. Vienna 1986 (together with Bertrand Perz )
  • The history of the Ebensee concentration camp. Missile armor and forced labor. 2nd volumes. Vienna 1987
  • The concentration camp in the Serbenhalle . To the war industry in Wiener Neustadt. Vienna 1987 (together with Bertrand Perz )
  • Ebensee concentration camp. A satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Vienna 1990
  • Labor camp cement. The Ebensee concentration camp and the rocket armor. Vienna 1991
  • Pilot project "Austrian Holocaust Victims". Vienna 1992 (together with Hans Safrian )
  • Eviction and murder. On the fate of the Austrian Jews 1938-1945. The project "Identification of Austrian Holocaust Victims by Name". Vienna 1993 (together with Hans Safrian )
  • The Lodz ghetto. Vienna 1993 (together with Bertrand Perz and Karl Stuhlpfarrer )
  • Gypsy Policy in Austria in the 20th Century. Vienna 2003
  • The Burgenland Roma 1945 - 2000. A representation of the ethnic group on the basis of archival and statistical sources. A research project of the Austrian Roma Cultural Association. Eisenstadt 2004 (together with Gerhard Baumgartner )
  • Deprivation of property, restitution and compensation for the Roma and Sinti. Vienna 2004 (together with Gerhard Baumgartner and Harald Greifeneder )
  • Forced laborers on the territory of the Republic of Austria 1939 - 1945. Vienna 2004 (together with Bertrand Perz and Mark Spoerer )
  • Concentration camp in Upper Austria 1938 to 1945. Linz 2007 (together with Bertrand Perz )
  • Roma politics in Austria. Vienna 2007 (together with Gerhard Baumgartner )
  • The dead from Ebensee. Analysis and documentation of the prisoners who perished in the Ebensee concentration camp in 1943-1945. Vienna 2010
  • Upper Austria and the Gypsies. Politics against a minority in the 19th and 20th centuries. Linz 2010 (together with Ludwig Laher and Gitta Martl )
  • The Ebensee concentration camp. Missile armor in the SS "Zement" labor camp. Innsbruck 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the Ebensee concentration camp. Missile armament and forced labor , univie.ac.at, accessed on August 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Friend, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck