Helmut Wohnout

Helmut Wohnout (born February 3, 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and ministerial official . He has been head of the Austrian State Archives since November 1, 2019 .

Life

Wohnout studied after visiting the Schottengymnasiums history at the University of Vienna and Georgetown University in Washington, DC After his master's in 1987, he was in 1991 for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1992 to 2000 he was club secretary and office manager of the second president of the National Council Heinrich Neisser (ÖVP). He then worked as a manager in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna. He was head of the cabinet of State Secretary for Art and Media Franz Morak (ÖVP) and department head of the Federal Press Service .

In 2011 he qualified as a professor in Austrian history at the Institute for History at the University of Graz and became a private lecturer . In addition, he has been managing the Karl von Vogelsang Institute since 1993 . He has been editor of the yearbook Democracy and History since 1997 and has published several books on history.

On October 30, 2019, it was officially announced that Wohnout will take over the management of the Austrian State Archives from November 1, 2019 .

He is also district chairman of the Austrian workers' union Vienna-Döbling and board member of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (DÖW).

Since 1983 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KaV Norica Vienna . He later became a member of the KAV Capitolina Rome .

Fonts (selection)

Government dictatorship or state parliament? Legislation in authoritarian Austria (= studies on politics and administration , volume 43). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-205-05547-0 .
The Austrian hospice in Jerusalem. History of the pilgrim house on the Via Dolorosa . With a foreword by Franz König . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-205-99095-1 .
Anti-Semitism before the Anschluss. The Austrian corporate state and the Jews 1934–1938. In: Kescher (magazine of the Abraham Geiger College ), 3rd year, issue 2 (PDF; 1.9 MB) (spring 2005), p. 16f.
with Martin Eichtinger : Alois Mock. A politician makes history . Styria, Vienna a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-222-13234-6 .
with Maddalena Guiotto: Italy and Austria in Central Europe in the interwar period / Italia e Austria nella Mitteleuropa tra le due guerre mondiali . Böhlau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20269-1 .

Web links

Literature by and about Helmut Wohnout in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Helmut Wohnout in the German Digital Library
Search for "Helmut Wohnout" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Entry on Helmut Wohnout in the Austria Forum (biography)
Short biography and reviews of works by Helmut Wohnout at perlentaucher.de
Helmut Wohnout at the Karl von Vogelsang Institute

Individual evidence

↑ Media department ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Chancellery, accessed on May 26, 2014. @1@ 2
↑ Wohnout becomes the new head of the Austrian State Archives. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 30, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wohnout, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian historian and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Media department ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Chancellery, accessed on May 26, 2014. @1@ 2

[sn78467923-2] Wohnout becomes the new head of the Austrian State Archives. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 30, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .