Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld

Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld , b. Kromer (born January 19, 1944 in Althofen ) is an Austrian historian. Her mother was Imma Cerny († 2007).

Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld completed her studies from 1963 to 1968 at the Universities of Vienna , Harvard and Yale from the University of Vienna with a doctorate in philosophy. From 1968 to 1976 she worked as a historian at the Carinthian State Museum in Klagenfurt.

In addition, she was a long-time delegate for Carinthia in the Austrian Castle Association . Since 1997 she has been director of the History Association for Carinthia , and also a member of the Carinthian cultural committee and the Austrian-Slovenian historians' commission of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

In 2019 Fräss-Ehrfeld received the Paracelsusring of the city of Villach.

Fräss-Ehrfeld has been married to the industrialist Ernst Fräss-Ehrfeld since 1972 and has three children and several grandchildren. Through her husband (whose ancestors called themselves Edle von Ehrfeld ) there is a family connection to the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia .

Publications (selection)

• The United States of America and the question of Carinthia 1918–1920 . 1970.
• Millstatt Monastery in the Middle Ages: Benedictines and Knights of St. George . 1970.
• Italy and the question of Carinthia 1919 to 1920 . 1970.
• The turning point from the Middle Ages to the modern age - aspects from Carinthian history . 1971.
• Adam Hefter - Church and State in the First Republic . 1974.
• The reports of the Miles mission regarding the final border in Carinthia . 1975.
• Carinthia 1945 - From a new beginning and coping with it . 1976.
• The “Carinthian Question” in 1945 . Association for Political Education, Political Academy of the ÖVP, 1980.
• Foreign policy aspects of the Carinthian question after World War II . 1980.
• Allied control of the administration in the Carinthian voting zones . 1981.
• Democratization and the state constitution in Carinthia 1918–1920 . 1982.
• History of Carinthia, Volume I: The Middle Ages . Heyn, Klagenfurt 1984, 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-7084-0111-5 .
• The “Carinthian Question” in 1945 . 1985.
• The role of the United States of America and the Carinthian Question . 1986.
• La Question de Carinthie 1918-1920 . 1988.
• Right to self-determination and plebiscites 1919/20: The Carinthian referendum in comparison . 1989.
• History of Carinthia, Volume II: The Estates Epoch (1994) . Heyn, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85366-685-X .
• History of Carinthia, Volume III: 2. Carinthia 1918–1920: Defensive struggle - referendum, search for identity . Heyn, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85366-954-9 .
• Napoleon and his time. Kärnten - Innerösterreich - Illyrien , history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85454-113-4 (= archive for patriotic history and topography , volume 96).
• History of the market community Steinfeld (with Thomas Zeloth), history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-85454-120-2 (= archive for patriotic history and topography , volume 100).

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld in the catalog of the German National Library