Andreas Weigl

Andreas Weigl (born March 23, 1961 in Vienna ) is an Austrian social and economic scientist .

Weigl attended the Protestant elementary school in Vienna on Karlsplatz from 1967 and then from 1971 the Federal Realgymnasium Waltergasse, where he graduated in 1979. This was followed by a diploma course in "business informatics" with a Magisterium (1984, rersocoec.) And a diploma course in history at the University of Vienna, where in 1985 he obtained the second master's degree (phil.). He completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences in the subject of "Economic History" (1991).

Weigl then worked on several projects for the City of Vienna and was deputy head of the Statistical Office of the City of Vienna from 1998 to 2008, and from 2005 “Statistics and Analysis” of the Municipal Department “Finance, Budgeting and Statistics”. Since 2001 he has also been a Univ. Lecturer at the University of Vienna , Institute for Economic and Social History active.

He has been working at the Vienna City and State Archives since 2008, and from 2010 to 2011 he was the director of the now closed Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban History Research .

Weigl has been the editor-in-chief of the Wiener Geschichtsblätter since July 2008 . In 2019 he received the Victor Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Weigl in the catalog of the German National Library