Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

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Brigitte Bailer-Galanda at the presentation of the Bruno Kreisky Prize

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (born Galanda ; born March 5, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian social scientist and historian . She was the scientific director of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and deputy chairwoman of the historians' commission of the Republic of Austria . Bailer-Galanda is honorary professor for contemporary history at the University of Vienna .

Life

Bailer-Galanda was born in 1952 as the daughter of a police officer in Vienna. In 1970 she passed the matriculation examination at the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien 2. From 1970 to 1974 she completed a degree in social and economic sciences (Mag.rer.soc. Oec. 1974) and from 1990 to 1992 a doctorate with Erika Weinzierl in history on the subject For Austria, reparation was not an issue ( Dr . phil. 1992) at the University of Vienna . In 1994/94 she became a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science. In 2003 she completed her habilitation with her thesis The Origin of Restitution Laws at the University of Vienna, where she then became a lecturer in contemporary history . In 2010 she became an honorary professor for contemporary history.

In 1979 she became a research assistant at the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and was Wolfgang Neugebauer's scientific director from December 2004 to April 2014 . In 2014 she was followed by Gerhard Baumgartner . Her main research interests are resistance to National Socialism , National Socialist persecution of Jews , restitution, right-wing extremism in Austria and Holocaust denial .

From 1998 to 2003 she was a member and deputy chairwoman of the Historians' Commission of the Republic of Austria . She is u. a. Board member of the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Association for the History of the Labor Movement . She is also a member of the Austrian delegation of the Task Force for International Cooperation in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research . She is a member of the advisory board of the Wien Museum and the Topography of Terror as well as a member of the Austro-Russian Commission of Historians and the International Forum Mauthausen advising the Federal Minister of the Interior .

She is married and has three children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • with Eva Blimlinger : deprivation of property - restitution - compensation. Austria 1938 / 1945–2005 (= Austria-Second Republic . Vol. 7), Studienverlag , Vienna a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4172-6 .
  • Deprivation of property during the Nazi era as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria . Volume 3: The Origin of Restitution and Compensation Legislation. The Republic of Austria and the assets seized during the Nazi era (= publications by the Austrian Commission of Historians ). Oldenbourg , Vienna a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-7029-0464-6 .
  • with Wolfgang Neugebauer : Haider and the "Freedom" in Austria (= Antifa Edition ). 2nd edition, Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-638-2 .
  • Haider literally. Leader in the Third Republic . Löcker, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85409-253-9 .
  • Old and new rights. Right-wing extremism and right-wing trend . With a foreword by Albrecht K. Konecny , Zukunft-Verlag, Vienna 1993.
  • Making amends - not an issue. Austria and the victims of National Socialism . Löcker, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85409-210-5 .
  • A German country. The "right" orientation of Jörg Haider. A documentation . With a contribution by Peter Turrini , Löcker, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85409-116-8 .

Editing

editorial staff

literature

  • Bailer (-Galanda), Brigitte . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 46 f.
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer , Christine Schindler (Red.): Research on National Socialism and its aftermath in Austria. Festschrift for Brigitte Bailer . DÖW, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901142-61-1 .

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Bailer-Galanda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For Austria, reparation was not an issue , univie.ac.at, accessed on August 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Brigitte Bailer (-Galanda): Short biography ( memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. doew.at, accessed on August 21, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.doew.at
  3. ↑ Brigitte Bailer was given a great honor . wienerzeitung.at, January 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bailer-Galanda, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galanda, Brigitte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna