Florian Wenninger

Florian Wenninger (born on July 5, 1978 in Oberndorf near Salzburg ) is an Austrian historian who mainly devotes himself to contemporary history.

life and work

Wenninger was chairman of the Memorial Service Association until 2010 and worked from 2008 to 2013 as an assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, where he works as a research assistant . He is the editor of several books and published a number of scientific articles. He works as a research coordinator in the project “Repression in Austria 1933–1938” and is a member of the editorial team of the journal “zeitgeschichte”. He regularly takes a stand in public debates on contemporary history. In the context of a World-Café for the referendum on conscription in Austria in 2013 , he advocated maintaining conscription .

Book publications

• (Ed.), With Willi Mernyi , Mauthausen Committee Austria : The Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Reports and documents. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7035-1111-0 .
• (Ed.), With Paul Dvorak , Katharina Kuffner : History makes rule. To politics with the past. Braumüller, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7003-1601-5 .
• (Ed.), With Peter Pirker : Wehrmachtsjustiz. Context - Practice - Aftermath. Braumüller, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7003-1752-4 .
• (Ed.), With Lucile Dreidemy : The Dollfuss / Schuschnigg regime 1933–1938. Measurement of a research field. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78770-9 .

Contributions

• "History between" processing "and mediation. Considerations based on an example", In: Bundesjugendvertrung (Hg.) 2010: Robbed Childhood. Children and Young People under National Socialism, Vienna, pp. 197–212
• "The apartment of Rottenführer D. On the focus on victims and the absence of perpetrators in contemporary history mediation work". In: Hilmar, Till (ed.) 2010: Place, Subject, Crime. Coordinates of historical-political educational work on National Socialism, Vienna, pp. 54–74.
• "Project work and external cooperation in historical-political educational work with young people. A workshop report by the Memorial Service Association", In: Yearbook 2010 of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance, pp. 66–88.
• "Contemporary history becomes history. On the possibilities and limits of working with young people in the Mauthausen Memorial". In: Bauer, Christa / Baumgartner, Andreas / Mernyi, Willi (eds.) 2009: Nothing but old walls. The meaning and possibilities of visiting concentration camp memorial sites and documentation of a successful model project, Volume 1, pp. 15–26.
• "Between Responsibility, Guilt and Atonement. The Austrian Memorial Service and the German Action Reconciliation as Forms of Non-State Historical Policy". In: Austriaca, Décembre 2009 / No 69, pp. 87–112.
• "The civil war in the minds. The interpretation patterns of the social democratic leadership after the defeat in February 1934". In: Juridikum 01/2009, pp. 44–47.
• "February Memory. The Austrian Civil War in the Historical Memory of the Second Republic". In: Kienesberger, Klaus et alii (eds.): InSICHTBAR. Resistance in the Salzkammergut, Vienna, pp. 68–81
• "The salvation of the fatherland or of the essence of" pure democracy "". In: Regards Resistance No. 87, June 2008, pp. 4–10
• "Neighboring raids - the" Aryanizations "in the 15th district". In: Kofler, Michael / Pühringer, Judith / Traska, Georg 2008: The triangle of my childhood. A Jewish suburban community in Vienna, Vienna, pp. 148–169.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association Memorial Service: We say goodbye to our long-time chairman Florian Wenninger , issue 03/2010, accessed on July 30, 2015
2. ↑ Florian Wenninger in the personnel directory.
3. ^ Wiener Zeitung : Interview with Florian Wenninger , March 8, 2013
4. ↑ FM4 : What remains of February 1934? , Interview with Florian Wenninger, February 12, 2009
5. ↑ Der Standard : This has nothing to do with censorship ... , October 25, 2007
6. ↑ Der Standard : Naming the Obvious , Commentary by Others, August 7, 2009
7. ↑ See also the interviews with FM4 and Wiener Zeitung mentioned above.
8. ↑ "The time has come to build a professional army". SPÖ Upper Austria , accessed on October 27, 2017 .  

Web links

• Literature by and about Florian Wenninger in the catalog of the German National Library