Erwin A. Schmidl

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Erwin A. Schmidl (born December 15, 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian military historian .

Life

Schmidl studied history , ethnology and art history at the University of Vienna . In 1981 he was with a dissertation on the Boer War at the Faculty for Dr. phil. ( sub auspiciis praesidentis ) is doing her doctorate. In 1993 he completed a postgraduate course at the Europa-Akademie Vienna and in 2001 he completed his habilitation on “Development of International Peace Operations” at the University of Innsbruck .

In 1981 he became a research associate at the Army History Museum (HGM) in Vienna. Most recently he was head of the military science and military history research department of the HGM. In 1991 he became a member of the department for international organizations, especially United Nations affairs, at the Austrian Foreign Ministry . In 1994 he was in South Africa as a UN observer . In 1994/95 he was Head of Division “Publications” at the HGM and in 1995/96 J. Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC From 1996 to 2001 he worked in the military science office and was most recently head of the research department.

In 2001 he became a university lecturer for modern history and contemporary history at the University of Innsbruck. At the same time, from 2001 to 2014 he was head of the "Contemporary History" department at the Institute for Strategy and Security Policy of the National Defense Academy in Vienna, which he headed from 2007 to 2008 and from 2012 (interim). He bears the title of Hofrat . In 2004 he was visiting professor at the University of Pretoria . In addition, he works at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

From 2010 to 2015 he was Secretary General of the International Commission for Military History , and since 2015 he has remained a member of the Board. He is President of the Austrian Commission for Military History , the Austrian Society for Heereskunde and the Austrian-South African Club as well as Secretary General of the Association of Austrian Historians and Historical Societies . He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War in Graz-Vienna-Raabs.

His main research interests are military history and security policy.

Schmidl is married and lives in Vienna and Graz.

Awards

  • 1980: Fritz Eckart Scholarship from the University Association Alma Mater Rudolfina (Graduate Association of the University of Vienna)
  • 1984: Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The "connection" of Austria. The German invasion in March 1938 . Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7637-5936-0 .
  • with Wolfgang Etschmann , Tamara Scheer : At the border. The first engagement date of the armed forces and the deployment during the Hungarian crisis in 1956 . Vehling, Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-85333-129-3 .
  • Blue helmets, red cross. The Austrian UN medical contingent in the Congo, 1960 to 1963 (= Peacekeeping Studies . Volume 1). 2nd edition, Studienverlag, Innsbruck a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4995-0 . (1st edition 1995)
  • Going international. In the service of peace. The Austrian Armed Forces and Austrian participation in international missions since 1960 . 5th, completely revised and updated edition, Vehling, Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3-85333-257-3 . (1st edition 2010)
  • Habsburgs Jewish soldiers. 1788-1918 . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79567-4 .

Editorships

  • with Manfried Rauchsteiner : Forms of War. From the Middle Ages to "low intensity conflict" (= research on military history . Volume 1). Publishing house Styria, Graz u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-222-12139-7 .
  • Friend or foe? Combatants, non-combatants and civilians in war and civil war since the 18th century (= legal and social science series . Volume 11). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-631-47005-3 .
  • The 1956 Hungarian crisis and Austria . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-205-77009-9 .
  • with Peter Broucek : Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck. Military, history and political education. On the occasion of the author's 85th birthday . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-205-77117-6 .
  • with Walter Blasi , Felix Schneider: B-Gendarmerie, weapons store and intelligence services. The military way to the State Treaty . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-205-77267-9 .
  • with Christoph Neumayer: The Emperor's Bosniaks. The Bosnian-Herzegovinian troops in the Austro-Hungarian army. History and uniforms from 1878 to 1918 . Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902526-16-8 .
  • Austria in the early Cold War. 1945-1958. Spies, partisans, war plans . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2010, ISBN 3-205-99216-4 .
  • with Robert Kriechbaumer , Wolfgang Mueller : Politics and the military in the 19th and 20th centuries. Austrian and European aspects. Festschrift for Manfried Rauchsteiner (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library . 58). Böhlau, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-205-20417-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff , Institute for Contemporary History, accessed on May 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidl, Erwin A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna