Hans Safrian

Hans Safrian (* 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian . He is a university lecturer for contemporary history at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and since 2010 Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary History.

education and profession

Safrian studied history and German at the Free University of Berlin , where he wrote his master's thesis on “Political and social requirements of the fascism theories of August Thalheimer and Otto Bauer and their place in history”. In 1993 he did his doctorate at the University of Vienna with the dissertation “Eichmann's assistants. On the participation of Austrians in the National Socialist expulsion and genocide policy ”to doctorate in philosophy. In 2003 he completed his habilitation on the subject of “Land of perpetrators, land of victims? On the participation of Austrians in National Socialism ”and the granting of the venia legendi for contemporary history.

Between 1987 and 1989, Safrian worked under Karl Stuhlpfarrer on the science project of the Ministry of Science and Art on the subject of "The Balkans in World War II as part of Austrian contemporary history" and between 1988 and 1991 had teaching assignments for seminars in teacher training on the subject of fascism , National Socialism and Austria. He conceived and initiated the project “Registration of Austrian Holocaust Victims by Name”. Between 1985 and 1988 he held teaching positions at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and in 1995 at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck . From 1994 to 1995 he was a co-author and co-designer of the exhibition “War of Extermination. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941-1944 ”of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , followed by a stay as a Pearl Resnick Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1997 to 1999. From 1997 to 1999 he was researcher and head of the research team in the USA for the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War and then from 2000 to 2002 researcher for the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria in the USA. In 2003 Safrian had a teaching position at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, after which he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington DC from 2004 to 2005.Safian was a professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna from 2005 to 2010 and has been there since October 2010 Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary History. Some of Safrian's works have been translated into English.

Awards

• Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book for "The Eichmann Men" (1994)
• Carl von Ossietzky Medal of the League for Human Rights for the exhibition " War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944 " (1997)

Works (selection)

• And nobody was there. Documents of everyday anti-Semitism in Vienna 1938. Vienna, Picus 1988 (together with Hans Witek)
• The Eichmann men. Vienna-Zurich, Europa-Verlag 1993
• Eviction and murder. On the fate of the Austrian Jews 1938–1945. Vienna, publication of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance 1993 (together with Florian Freund )

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Safrian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hans Safrian in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Hans Safrian on the website of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna