Gerhard Botz (historian)

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Gerhard Botz (born March 14, 1941 in Schärding ) is an Austrian historian .

Life

Gerhard Botz studied at the Vienna University of biology, geography and history and was founded in 1967 with a contemporary historical dissertation on political violence to Dr. phil. PhD . His work was supervised by Ludwig Jedlicka and Erich Zöllner . In 1962/63 he graduated from the first year of film school at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna .

From 1968 to 1979 he was an assistant at the University of Economics and Social Sciences (from 1975 Johannes Kepler University ) in Linz . In 1979 he was for Modern History and Contemporary History habilitated and in 1980 as Associate Univ.-Professor of Austrian history with special emphasis on the contemporary history of Salzburg called. There he developed the annual September courses he founded for quantitative historical methods (since 1978) and oral history (since 1985) to create the international “Erasmus Summer School New Methods in History” (until 1993). From 1997 to 2009, the year he retired , he was a full professor for contemporary history at the University of Vienna.

In 1982, Botz founded the "Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science", which he has headed since then, under the sponsorship of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society . He was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Bochum and Berlin and taught as a visiting professor in Minneapolis , Stanford and Paris .

Gerhard Botz is known as a connoisseur of the time of National Socialism in Austria . In his works he dealt in particular with the " Anschluss " of Austria in 1938 and the subject of the deportation of Jews from Vienna. He has also written various papers on issues of contemporary Austrian history and on the subject of violence in politics. He is (co-) editor of the Studies in Historical Social Science (31 volumes since 1982) and the journal BIOS .

In 2012 he was awarded the Willy and Helga Sales-Verlon Prize .

Fonts

  • The incorporation of Austria into the German Empire. Planning and implementation of the political-administrative connection (1938–1940) . Vienna 1972/1988, ISBN 3-203-50426-X .
  • Housing policy and deportation of Jews in Vienna 1938–1945 . Vienna 1975, OBV .
  • Violence in Politics . Munich 1976/1983, ISBN 3-7705-1295-2 . (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1966 under the title: Contributions to the history of political acts of violence in Austria from 1918 to 1933 ).
  • -, Gerfried Brandstetter, Michael Pollak: In the shadow of the labor movement. On the history of anarchism in Austria and Germany . Series of publications by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement, Volume 6, ZDB -ID 185006-4 . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-203-50628-9 .
  • Vienna from the “Anschluss” to the war. National Socialist takeover and political-social transformation using the example of the City of Vienna in 1938/39 . Vienna 1978/1980, ISBN 3-7141-6544-4 .
  • Margareta Glas-Larsson, - (Ed.): I want to talk. The tragedy and banality of survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz . Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-217-01186-4 .
  • - (ed.), Ivar Oxaal (ed.): Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna . London, 1987. (German: A Destroyed Culture. Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Vienna since the 19th Century . Obermayer, Buchloe 1990, ISBN 3-9800919-6-1 , Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7076-0140-4 ).
  • Crisis zones of a democracy. Violence, Strikes and Conflict Suppression in Austria since 1918 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-593-33884-X .
  • National Socialism in Vienna. Assumption of power, securing rule, radicalization 1938/39 . Vienna 1988/2008/2011, ISBN 978-3-85476-252-2 .
  • - (Ed.): “Quality and Quantity”. On the practice of the methods of historical social science . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (among others) 1988, ISBN 3-593-33880-7 .
  • - (Ed.): Controversies about Austria's contemporary history. The suppressed past, Austrian identity, Waldheim and the historians . Second, expanded edition. Studies on historical social science, Volume 13, ZDB -ID 1019043-0 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (among others) 2008, ISBN 3-593-38120-6 .
  • - (Ed.): Silence and speeches of a generation. Remembrance talks with victims, perpetrators and fellow travelers of National Socialism . Second, expanded edition. Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85476-242-3 .
  • Austria in the 20th century. (1918 to 2000) . Handbook on the modern history of Austria, Volume 5, ZDB -ID 2285797-7 . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 2011, ISBN 3-7065-1504-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Botz on the website of the University of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Botz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schärding