Gerhard Baumgartner

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Gerhard Baumgartner (* 1957 in Oberwart ) is an Austrian journalist and historian . Since May 2014 he has been the scientific director of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).

Life

Baumgartner studied English, History and Ural Studies at the University of Vienna between 1977 and 1984 , where he was Foreign Language Assistant at Cambridge Education Language Authorities between 1980 and 1981. Between 1984 and 1989 he worked as the editor in charge of Hungarian-language radio broadcasts on ORF Burgenland and also completed his probationary year as a teacher at the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Klostergasse in Vienna - Währing between 1985 and 1986 . In addition, from 1985 to 1987 he worked on the research project “Austria Ethnica Minorities in Austria” of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research and from 1986 to 1988 at the European Science Foundation Project Government and Non-Dominant Ethnic Societies under Professor Andreas Moritsch . Since 1987 he has been the permanent delegate of Burgenland to the International Pannonian Cultural and Historical Symposium in Mogersdorf.

After his time as an editor at ORF Burgenland, Baumgartner worked between 1989 and 1991 as an employee of the foreign editorial department of the ORF's current service and was then editor in charge of the ORF Burgenland program for Hungarian-language television programs from 1991 to 2011. He also organized workshops and conferences and was lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt in 1991 and lecturer at the University of Salzburg in 1992 . This was followed by a stay as a Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University between 1992 and 1993 and a position as a lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the University of Economics from 1993 to 1994 . From 1994 to 1995 he was also a lecturer at the University of Vienna and from 1994 to 1995 director of the Institute for Comparative Education and University Research.

Between 1997 and 1998 Baumgartner was in charge of the management and organization of teacher training conferences for the Austrian Society for Political Education and from 1998 to 2000 he was the project manager of the Burgenland Research Society : “Roma and Sinti in Burgenland 1945-2000. On the current situation of an ethnic group ”. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as project manager for the Austrian Commission of Historians and from 2003 to 2008 he was entrusted with the registration of the names of the Austrian Roma and Sinti who were murdered under National Socialism. He became a FH Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Graz in 2010 and a Faculty Member at the Danube University Krems in 2011 . From 2012 to 2013 he was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies . In 2014 he succeeded Brigitte Bailer-Galanda as scientific director of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW).

Baumgartner has been President of the Vienna Hungarian School Association / Bécsi Magyar since 1996 and has been the project manager of the International Chancellery Research Association, Vienna, since 1998. He is also a permanent member of the Southeast German Historical Commission for the history of Germans in Southeast and Central Europe and, since 2005, Austrian delegate for cooperation in history teaching in the Visegrad countries.

Baumgartner's research focuses on the areas of resistance and persecution from 1938 to 1945, the history of persecution of the Roma and Sinti, how the Republic of Austria dealt with the Nazi past and the history of the national minorities in Burgenland.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Fate of the European Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust, Vienna - Paris 2013 (see also: www.romasintigenocide.eu)
  • "Lackenbach Gypsy Camp". List of identified victims November 13, 2010. In memory of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the "Lackenbach Gypsy Camp" on November 23, 1940 | "Gypsy Camp Lackenbach". List of Identified Victims November 23, 2010. In Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Establishing of "Gypsy Camp Lackenbach" on the 23rd of November 1940, Vienna 2010
  • "Now we're going to show you!" Contemporary Roma art from Hungary, Vienna 2008 (together with Eva Kovacs and Peter Szuhay)
  • Roma & Sinti - 'Gypsy Representations' of Modernism, Krems 2007 (together with Tayfun Belgin)
  • Roma Politics in Austria / Roma Policies in Austria, Vienna 2005 (together with Florian Freund )
  • Roma Policies in Austria, the EU and the rest of Europe / Roma Policies in Austria, the European Union, and Beyond, Brussels 2004 (together with Florian Freund)
  • Deprivation of property, restitution and compensation for the Roma and Sinti, publications by the Austrian Commission of Historians. Deprivation of assets during the Nazi era as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria, vol. 23/2, Vienna 2004 (together with Florian Freund and Harald Greifeneder)
  • "Aryanizations", confiscated assets, provisions and compensation in Burgenland. Publications of the Austrian Commission of Historians. Deprivation of assets during the Nazi era as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria vol. 17/3, Vienna 2004 (together with Anton Fennes, Harald Greifeneder, Stefan Sinkovits, Gert Tschögl and Harald Wendelin)
  • Deprivation of assets from Burgenland Croats and Hungarians. National minorities under National Socialism 4. Publications of the Austrian Commission of Historians. Deprivation of assets during the Nazi era as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria, Vol. 23/4, Vienna 2004 (together with Stefan Schinkovits)
  • The Burgenland Roma 1945 - 2000. A representation of the ethnic group based on qualitative and quantitative data, research from Burgenland 88, Eisenstadt 2004 (together with Florian Freund)
  • Distant neighbors - Jánossmorja and Andau 1990-2000 / Távoli Rokonok - Jánossmorja és Andau 1990-2000, Budapest 2002 (together with Eva Kovács and András Vári)
  • The Croatian Language in Austria, Mercator Education Regional Dossier No. 15, Ljouwert / Leeuwarden 2001
  • A Decade of Roma Politics in Austria / A Decade of Roma Politics in Austria, Vienna 2001 (together with Florian Freund)
  • 6 × Austria. History and current situation of the national minorities in Austria, Klagenfurt / Celovec 1995
  • History of the Jewish community in Schlaining, Stadtschlaining 1988

Editorships

  • Roma Genocide Education - Collected Case Studies, Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts, Linz 2008
  • Nothing new in the east ?, Austrian Journal of History 2/99, Vienna 1999 (editor)
  • Szakképzés és felsöoktatás (vocational training and higher education), Budapest 1996 (together with Peter Drahos and János Setényi)
  • Habitat and Identity, Eisenstadt 1989 (together with Eva Müllner and Rainer Münz)
  • with Rainer Bauböck , Bernhard Perchinig , Karin Pinter (eds.): ... and you're out! Ethnic minorities in politics (= Austrian texts on social criticism . Vol. 37). Publishing house for social criticism , Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900351-96-1

Filmography

  • 2005: Otto Pammer - a film-making contemporary witness. From the liberation in 1945 to the State Treaty in 1955
  • 2006: Hungary's longing for freedom - images that moved the world!

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personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwart