Anton Staudinger

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Anton Staudinger (born March 6, 1940 in Bad Hall ) is an Austrian historian and university professor .

Youth and education

Anton Staudinger was born in 1940 as the son of the unskilled worker Anton Staudinger and his wife Theresia in Bad Hall in what was then the Reichsgau Oberdonau (today Upper Austria ). In 1958 he graduated from the Benedictine high school in Kremsmünster and then studied history and German at the University of Vienna . In 1964 he passed the teaching examination for German and history. In 1969 he received his PhD in history. In 1970 he was awarded the Leopold Kunschak Prize for his dissertation on Carl Vaugoin .

Academic work

From its establishment in 1966, Staudinger was an assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna , from 1976 to 1983 senior assistant. In 1980 he completed his habilitation with the text Christian Social Party and Establishment of the Austrian Republic . Staudinger has been an associate since 1983 . University professor for modern history with a special focus on contemporary history . From 1990 to 1994 he was also the director of the Vienna Contemporary History Institute.

From 1973–1993 he worked for the Scientific Commission of the Theodor-Körner-Stiftungsfonds and the Leopold-Kunschak-Prize for research into Austrian history from 1927–1938 . Since 1980 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance . Since 1987 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Documentation Center for the Promotion of Independent Czechoslovakian Literature . Since 1995 he has been a board member of the Association for the History of the Labor Movement .

Since 1989 he has been co-editor of the Austrian Journal of History .

On October 1, 2000, he retired as a university employee.

Staudinger has published works on the Austrian military and party history of the First Republic , on aspects of the authoritarian corporate state , on Austrian identity , but also on culinary art .

Publications (selection)

  • together with Ludwig Jedlicka : End and Beginning. Austria 1918/19. Vienna and the federal states. SN-Verlag, Salzburg 1969.
  • Efforts by Carl Vaugoin for the supremacy of the Christian Social Party in Austria (1930–1933). In: Communications of the Austrian State Archives 23, Vienna 1970, pp. 297–376.
  • Christian-Social Jewish Policy in the Founding Phase of the Austrian Republic. In: Yearbook for Contemporary History 1978 , Vienna 1979, pp. 11–48.
  • Julius Deutsch (1884–1968). In: New Austrian Biography Volume 20, Vienna 1979, pp. 50–58.
  • Austrofascist "Austria" ideology. In: Emmerich Tálos [Hrsg]: “Austrofaschismus” - articles on politics, economy and culture 1934–1938 , third and expanded edition, Vienna 1985, pp. 287–316.
  • together with Franziska Helmreich: Only dumplings. The Ultimate Dumpling Book from Austria, Bavaria & Bohemia. Brandstätter, Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-85447-435-7 .

supporting documents

  1. a b Biography of Univ.-Prof. i. R. Mag. Dr. Anton Staudinger. (PDF; 61.6 kB) University of Vienna , March 22, 2010, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
  2. Staudinger Anton. Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna , accessed on February 13, 2019 .
  3. Anton Staudinger list of publications (selection). (PDF; 70 kB) University of Vienna , March 22, 2010, accessed on February 13, 2019 .