Gerald Steinacher

Gerald Steinacher (born September 2, 1970 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is an Austrian contemporary historian .

Life

Gerald Steinacher studied history and political science in Innsbruck , Rome and Trento . From 1995 to 1996 he was a Graduate Assistant in the History Department of the University of New Orleans . In 1999 he was awarded the Ludwig Jedlicka Prize (Vienna) for his dissertation. From 2000 to 2011 he worked as an archivist and contemporary historian at the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives in Bolzano . He also worked repeatedly as an expert in the Italian military justice system in the processing of war crimes in the Second World War .

In 2006 Steinacher was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC In 2008 , he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck . He is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck and has also taught at the Universities of Munich and Lucerne. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and from 2010–2011 worked as a research professor ( Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow) at Harvard. Since summer 2011 he has been Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Steinacher is also a member of the editorial board of the bilingual historical journal Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione, which is published in Bolzano .

His publications deal with aspects of Italian, German, Austrian and South Tyrolean contemporary history as well as international secret services.

Publications

• South Tyrol and the secret services 1943–1945 . StudienVerlag , Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2000, ISBN 3-7065-1346-3 ( Innsbruck research on contemporary history 15).
• Nazis on the run. How war criminals escaped overseas via Italy .
  • StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4026-1 .
  • Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18497-2 .
  • Nazis on the Run. How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice , Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-957686-9 .
• with Aram Mattioli (ed.): Building for fascism. Architecture and urban development in Mussolini's Italy . Orell Fuessli Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-280-06115-2 .
• with Hans-Günter Richardi (ed.): For freedom and law in Europe. The 20 July 1944 and the resistance against the Nazi regime in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4634-8 .
• with Aram Mattioli (Ed.): Fascism and Architecture - Fascismo ed architettura . ( History and Region / Storia e regione 2, 2008).
• (Ed.) Between Duce, Führer and Negus. South Tyrol and the Abyssinian War 1935–1941 . Athesia, Bozen 2006, ISBN 88-8266-399-X .
• (Ed.) In the shadow of the secret services. South Tyrol 1918 to the present . StudienVerlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7065-1644-6 .
• (Ed.) Between all fronts. Ludwig K. Ratschiller, autobiography of a South Tyrolean partisan . Raetia, Bozen 2003, ISBN 88-7283-192-X .

Web links

• Website
• Literature by and about Gerald Steinacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Center for European Studies Harvard University
• University of Nebraska History Department
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Brief biography
• Franz Krahberger : Die Rattenlinie aufgedroesselt (review by G. Steinacher, Nazis on the run) online [1]
• Kerstin von Lingen : Nazis on the run. How war criminals escaped overseas via Italy (review by G. Steinacher), in: H-Soz-Kult (May 2009) online [2]
• Heinz Schneppen : Later confusion not excluded (review by G. Steinacher, Nazis on the run ), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 30, 2008, No. 254, p. 9 ( online) .
• Dieter Maier: The flight of the Nazis - about working on a persistent myth (review by G. Steinacher, Nazis on the run ), in: Insight 01. Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute 1 (spring 2009), p. 53– 55 online