Harold Steinacker

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Harold Steinacker (born May 26, 1875 in Budapest , † January 29, 1965 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian historian.

Life

After his habilitation as professor for general history at the University of Vienna in 1905, Harold Steinacker was appointed to the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague in 1916 and to the University of Innsbruck in 1918 . As a revisionist with a large German mindset, he joined the NSDAP in 1934 (which was banned in the corporate state ) . After he resigned shortly thereafter, he rejoined the party in 1938. At the 1938 Nazi Party Congress he was present as the “Fiihrer's Guest of Honor”. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany .

From 1938 to 1942 he was rector of the University of Innsbruck , which from 1941 was called the German Alpine University . At the time, Steinacker was also co-editor of the journals Südostdeutsche Forschungen and Deutschlands Renewal .

After the Second World War , he became a co-founder of the Ranke Society in 1953 and head of the Southeast German Historical Commission in 1958 . His research interests included early and high medieval political history and issues relating to the history of documents .

Publications

  • People and history - selected speeches and essays , Rudolf M. Rohrer, Brünn / Munich / Vienna 1943

literature

  • Anna Schader: Harold Steinacker (1875–1965) - His Path to National Socialism , dissertation Klagenfurt 1997.
  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 600.

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personal data
SURNAME Steinacker, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1965
Place of death innsbruck