Wolfgang Neugebauer (historian, 1944)

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Wolfgang Neugebauer (born October 9, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and for many years was the scientific director of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). He is honorary professor for contemporary history at the University of Vienna .

Life

After graduating from the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien 18 (1962), Wolfgang Neugebauer studied history and geography at the University of Vienna . In 1969 he was at Ludwig Jedlicka with the thesis history of social democratic youth movement in Austria to Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1970 he began working in the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, of which he was the scientific director from 1983 to November 2004 as successor to Herbert Steiner ; he was followed by Brigitte Bailer-Galanda .

He also acted as President of the International Forum Mauthausen (in the Federal Ministry of the Interior ) from its founding in February 2004 to October 2007 . He is Vice President of the Action against Anti-Semitism in Austria and a board member of the Institute for Science and Art and the Austrian-Israeli Society .

Neugebauer teaches at the universities of Vienna, Linz, Graz, Klagenfurt and Salzburg. In 1995 he was appointed honorary professor for contemporary history at the University of Vienna.

He is married and has two children.

research

As the scientific director of the DÖW, Neugebauer's main research areas were the history of the labor movement , resistance and persecution in Austria during the times of Austro-Fascism and National Socialism , Nazi medical crimes, euthanasia , Action T4 , documentation of child euthanasia in the Vienna Nazi facility Spiegelgrund as well as right-wing extremism after 1945 and the role of the FPÖ and the Alliance Future Austria under the chairmanship of Jörg Haider . Current research deals with the history of the Nazi justice system. The courses and the diploma theses and dissertations supervised by him at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna also deal with these thematic areas .

He was part of the editorial team of fundamental DÖW works on right-wing extremism in Austria such as right-wing extremism in Austria after 1945 (5th edition 1981) and the Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism (2nd edition 1993, new edition 1994).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Builders of the world to come. History of the socialist youth movement in Austria (= publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the history of the labor movement ). Europaverlag, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-203-50526-6 .
  • (Ed.): From utopia to terror. Stalinism analyzes (= Austrian texts on social criticism . Vol. 59). Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85115-187-9 .
  • with Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Wolfgang Benz (eds.): Die Auschwitzleugner. "Revisionist" historical lies and historical truth (= Antifa edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-600-5 .
  • with Brigitte Bailer-Galanda: Haider and the “Freedom” in Austria (= Antifa Edition ). 2nd edition, Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-638-2 .
  • with Eberhard Gabriel (ed.): On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1999 ff.
  • Part 1: Nazi euthanasia in Vienna . 1999, ISBN 3-205-98951-1 .
  • Part 2: From Forced Sterilization to Murder . 2002, ISBN 3-205-99325-X .
  • Part 3: Pioneers of Annihilation? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 . 2005, ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .
  • with Emmerich Tálos , Ernst Hanisch (Hrsg.): NS rule in Austria. A manual . ÖBV and hpt, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-209-03179-7 .
  • with Emmerich Tálos (Ed.): Austrofaschismus. Politics, economy, culture. 1933-1938. 5th edition. Lit, Münster et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7712-4 .
  • with Peter Schwarz: The will to walk upright. Disclosure of the role of the BSA in the social reintegration of former National Socialists. The will to walk upright . Edited by the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals and Artists , Czernin, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7076-0196-X .
  • with Kurt Scholz , Peter Schwarz (ed.): Julius Wagner-Jauregg in the field of tension between political ideas and interests. An inventory. Contributions from the workshop from 6./7. November 2006 in the Vienna City Hall (= Vienna Lectures: Research . Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58122-3 .
  • The Austrian Resistance 1938–1945. Revised and expanded version, Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902494-74-0 .
  • (Ed.): Upright gait in new times. Ernst Nedwed - social democrat, popular educator, anti-fascist . Carl Gerold's Sohn Verlagbuchhandlung, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-900812-49-2 .

literature

  • Brigitte Bailer-Galanda , Christa Mehany-Mitterrutzner , Christine Schindler (eds.): Topics of contemporary history and the present. Labor movement - Nazi rule - right-wing extremism. A résumé on the occasion of Wolfgang Neugebauer's 60th birthday (= series of publications of the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance on resistance, Nazi persecution and post-war issues . Vol. 4). Lit, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7549-0 .
  • Peter Steinbach : A stroke of luck. For the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Neugebauer . In: DÖW-Jahrbuch (2015), pp. 317–322.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Research priorities and publications by Wolfgang Neugebauer
  2. ^ City hall correspondence of November 21, 2003 . With picture, accessed June 1, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria