Christoph Graf (historian)

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Christoph Graf (born March 25, 1944 in Häutligen , Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss historian and archivist . From 1990 to 2004 he was director of the Swiss Federal Archives .

Live and act

After attending school, Graf studied history and German at the universities of Bern , Göttingen and Berlin . 1972 doctorate he with a work on the power plant Rheinau to Dr. phil. In 1980 he submitted his habilitation thesis , which deals with the history of the Political Police at the time of National Socialism and was supervised by Walther Hofer .

In 1977 Graf joined the Swiss Federal Archives in Bern as a research assistant ; In 1978 he was appointed Vice Director (Deputy Director). From 1978 to 1990 he was also a board member and secretary of the Association of Swiss Archivists (VSA). In 1990, after the death of the then director Oscar Gauye , he was appointed the first director of the Federal Archives, a position he held until the end of September 2004. His successor was his deputy Andreas Kellerhals . With his appointment as director of the archive, he also took over the editing of the journal Studies and Sources , the official organ of the Federal Archives.

Graf, who is also a board member of the International Archives Council and the General History Research Society of Switzerland, has been teaching as an honorary professor for modern history - with a focus on Swiss history - and archival studies at the University of Bern since 1981 .

Among Graf's publications, two volumes of documentation on the events of the Reichstag fire of February 1933, which he published in 1972 and 1978 together with his mentor Walther Hofer and Edouard Calic, stand out .

Fonts

  • The Rheinau power plant and the Rheinau initiative 1954 , Zurich 1972. (Dissertation)
  • Censorship files from the Second World War , 1979.
  • Political police between democracy and dictatorship. The development of the Prussian political police from the state security organ to the secret state police office of the Third Reich , individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, 36th Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1983. (Bern, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1980)

literature

  • Association of Historians of Germany / General History Research Society of Switzerland: Vademecum of History , Vol. 1, 1995, p. 313.

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Skinned