Wolfgang Meixner

Wolfgang Meixner (born October 9, 1961 in Jenbach ) is an Austrian historian and former Vice Rector for Personnel at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Wolfgang Meixner attended the six-level primary school in Rapperswil in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen from 1967 to 1974 and the secondary school in his birthplace Jenbach in Tyrol from 1974 to 1977 . Then he was at the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium in Schwaz , where he passed the Matura in 1982 . This was followed by studies in folklore / European ethnology and "chosen subjects" with a focus on social history at the University of Innsbruck, which he completed in 1989 with the thesis "On the creation of the 'Tyrolean Folk Art Museum' in Innsbruck, from commercial and tourism-promoting and homeland-protection intentions". This was followed by a doctoral degree at the humanities faculty of the University of Innsbruck. From 1994 to 1997 he was a part-time contract assistant and since then has been a university assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History at the Institute for History at the University of Innsbruck. In 2001 he received his PhD with the dissertation “Aspects of the social profile of Austrian entrepreneurs in the 19th century: regional and social mobility”. phil. PhD. From 2005 he was chairman of the works council for scientific staff at the University of Innsbruck. From October 2007 to February 29, 2020 he was the full-time Vice Rector for Human Resources at the University of Innsbruck.

Act

Wolfgang Meixner's research topics range from the history of Austrian entrepreneurs in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the " Aryanization " and restitution of Jewish Tyrolean industrial companies to the history of agriculture and tourism in Tyrol. In his habilitation project , Meixner deals with the history of the Austrian motorways from 1945. As a curator, Meixner has worked on numerous exhibitions, including “Die Roten am Land” in the Museum Industrielle Arbeitswelt in Steyr (1989), “vertical. The Innsbrucker Nordkette. An exhibition in the city ”of the Austrian Alpine Club / Alpine Club Museum and the Tyrolean State Exhibition 2005. He is also a correspondent for the historical journal Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione published in Bolzano .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Meixner in the catalog of the German National Library
• former members of the Rectorate of the University of Innsbruck