Hermann Rafetseder

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Hermann Rafetseder (born April 7, 1956 in Bad Vöslau ) is an Austrian historian . He became known for his research into book burnings and forced labor in Austria during the Nazi era . He has lived in Linz since 1984 .

Life

Hermann Rafetseder studied history as a major and German as a minor at the University of Vienna . In addition, he was an editorial assistant on publication projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and was also a board member of the Lower Austrian Athletics Association. In 1983 he received his doctorate. phil. with a fundamental thesis on public book burnings as a special case in the history of censorship. The print version, published in 1988 in the Böhlau Kulturstudien series, has meanwhile become an often-cited standard work.

From 1984 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban History Research in Linz and researched changes of area and name, voting behavior in the area of ​​Austrian municipalities, etc. In addition, from 1992-1994 he completed the university course “Museum Education” (cultural mediation) at the University of Klagenfurt .

Since 1998 Rafetseder has been responsible for a bibliography on the history of Austrian municipalities as a member of the Austrian Working Group for Urban History Research : first as a CD-ROM edition, then as an online version with annual updates. Selected bibliographies appear annually from 1999 in the magazine “Pro Civitate Austriae”.

In 1996 Rafetseder began research on the subject of forced labor during the Nazi era in Upper Austria for the archive of the city of Linz. In 2001 the extensive study "The" Foreigners' deployment "at the time of National Socialism using the example of the city of Linz" was published, a detailed analysis of the administrative and organizational structures of forced labor in Linz. Rafetseder proves the close interlinking of the private and public sector in the exploitation of ever new foreign groups of workers in unfree employment. On the basis of the manuscript, before its publication in December 2000, he was appointed historian of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund by the government commissioner Maria Schaumayer . Hermann Rafetseder held the function of fund historian from 2001 until the end of the activity of the Reconciliation Fund in 2005. He cooperated with foreign partner institutions, created over 1000 pages of confidential reports and, in addition to examining various types of (above all unclear) individual cases, was also involved in the development involved in assessment criteria.

For his work as a Reconciliation Fund historian, Federal President Heinz Fischer awarded him the Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria in August 2007 (it was presented in December 2007).

In 2004 Hermann Rafetseder (from 2001 working under a trade license for "historical services") was appointed by the Society for Regional Studies (formerly Upper Austrian Museum Association) to edit the bibliography on Upper Austrian history. A print version for the period 2001–2005 was published in 2008, a print version for 2006–2010 was published in 2013; a greatly expanded online version of it is now an integrated part of the Upper Austria bibliography in the forum oö geschichte on www.ooegeschichte.at via "Historische Bibliographie". Corresponding bibliography updates for the period up to 2015 are also online there.

In addition, Hermann Rafetseder has been working as a family researcher for a long time, from smaller commissioned research to larger genealogical or house history documentation, both for private individuals and for companies.

Publications

  • Public book burnings by the executioner. Attempt of a general theory and presentation of the historical development with special consideration in Vienna or cases carried out from Vienna. Vienna: Univ., Geisteswiss. Diss. 1983, X, 583 pp.
  • City surveys in Austria since 1945 (official and unofficial conditions and background to these ranks). In: Pro civitate Austriae, Heft 7 (1988), pp. 13-59.
  • Book burns. The public execution of writings in historical change (= cultural studies. Library of Cultural History. Ed .: Hubert Ch. Ehalt and Helmut Konrad , Volume 12). Vienna, Cologne and Graz: Böhlau 1988, 360 pp.
  • Book executions. Public burning of writings by the executioner's hand as extreme cases of censorship. In: "Immoral in itself ...". Censorship in the 18th and 19th centuries (= Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buches, Volume 13. Ed .: Herbert G. Göpfert and Erdmann Weyrauch). Wiesbaden 1988, pp. 89-103 (print version of a lecture at the 7th annual meeting of the Wolfenbüttel working group for the history of the book industry in May 1985 in the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel).
  • Area and name changes of the municipalities of Austria since the middle of the 19th century (= research on the history of cities and markets in Austria. Ed .: Wilhelm Rausch , Volume 2). Linz 1989, XIV, 442 p., An overview map.
  • Bibliography on the history of the cities of Austria. Ed .: Austrian Working Group for Urban History Research. Linz 1999, CD-ROM.
  • The "deployment of foreigners" at the time of National Socialism using the example of the city of Linz. In: National Socialism in Linz. Ed .: Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster. Linz 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 1107–1269 (unchanged, new edition 2002).
  • “The concentration camp of the Linz Gestapo”. New sources within the framework of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund for the "Labor Education Camp" Schörgenhub. In: City Archives and City History. Research and Innovations. Festschrift for Fritz Mayrhofer on the completion of his 60th year. Ed .: Walter Schuster, Maximilian Schimböck and Anneliese Schweiger (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 2003/2004). Linz 2004, pp. 523-539; online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Bibliography on Upper Austrian History 2001–2005. After preliminary work by Johannes Wunschheim. Ed .: Society for Regional Studies Upper Austria . Linz 2008, XIV, 644 pp.
  • Variations of the Linz municipal economy in the 20th century. In: Linz in the 20th century. Ed .: Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 2007/2008/2009). Linz 2010, pp. 369-518.
  • From "nationalization" to "denationalization" using the example of industry in Linz. In: Linz in the 20th century. Ed .: Fritz Mayrhofer - Walter Schuster (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 2007/2008/2009). Linz 2010, pp. 927-1008.
  • Numbers and fates. A structural analysis of forced labor in Austria based on the files of the "Austrian Reconciliation Fund". In: Forced laborers in Austria 1939–1945 and their post-war fate. Results of the evaluation of the files of the "Austrian Reconciliation Fund". An interim report. Ed .: Dieter Bacher, Stefan Karner . Innsbruck u. a. 2013, pp. 61–115
  • Bibliography on Upper Austrian History 2006–2010. Ed .: Society for Regional Studies and Monument Preservation Upper Austria. Linz 2013, XIV, 629 p .; Print version of the online bibliography inventory created by the author on www.ooegeschichte.at via "Historische Bibliographie".
  • Forced labor for the Linz bridgehead. 1 .: Was granite used for the Linz bridgehead (Nibelungen Bridge, ramp, quay, bridgehead building, Heinrich-Gleißner-Haus) that had been dismantled by concentration camp inmates through forced labor? 2 .: Were forced laborers used for the construction of the Nibelungen Bridge (including the ramp and quay), the bridgehead building and the Heinrich Gleißner House? Linz 2014, 63 p., Corrected version of a text from 2009, also available online in the forum oö geschichte online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • The fate of Nazi forced labor. Findings on manifestations of the oppression and on the Nazi camp system from the work of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund. A documentation on behalf of the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria. Bremen 2014, 706 p .; Corrected print version of a text that remained unpublished in 2007 for reasons of data protection, can still be found online in the "forum oö geschichte" ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • On the history of the grounds and surroundings of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, with special consideration of the Nazi era in the Auhof-Dornach area. A contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Linz 2016, 115 pages; available online at https://www.jku.at/news-events/presse/ via downloads - historical and site history
  • "The Price of the Past". Nazi forced labor and Austria as part of the "compensation" discourse. Produced on behalf of the Steyr Working World Museum, on the occasion of the international traveling exhibition "Forced Labor under National Socialism", May 12th – December 18th, 2016. Linz 2016, 27 pages; available online in the forum oö history (at www.ooegeschichte -> via "historical bibliography")
  • Camps and camp-like accommodations from the Nazi era in Vienna , for the online encyclopedia "Vienna History Wiki", based on material from the Austrian Reconciliation Fund. 108 stock items and four "bonus tracks", created on behalf of the Vienna City and State Archives. - Linz 2017, 102 p. (In partly heavily abridged version included online in https: //www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv. at / Wien_Geschichte_Wiki )
  • Online documentation: Bibliography on the history of the cities of Austria . After preliminary work by Thomas Just, Willibald Katzinger, Rautgundis Machalka-Felser, Alois Niederstätter , Hannes Obermair , Susanne Claudine Pils, Maximilian Schimböck and Anneliese Schweiger. (based on a FileMaker database for the Austrian city bibliography) [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Austrian Working Group for Urban History Research
  2. ↑ Table of contents on linz.at/geschichte
  3. ^ Announcements from the Society for Regional Studies - Upper Austrian Museum Association 2008, issue 2, page 5, online (pdf, page 5)
  4. ^ Historical research and family research by Hermann Rafetseder

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SURNAME Rafetseder, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Vöslau