Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

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The Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna is a scientific institution for research into contemporary history . The seat of the institute is on the campus of the University of Vienna (the former old AKH ) in the 9th district of Vienna, Alsergrund . It has around 30 scientific members (as of 2006), around half of whom are employed by the University of Vienna and the other half are private lecturers who are assigned to the institute.

The institute is one of the supporting organizations of the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies .

history

The impetus for the establishment of an Austrian institution based on the model of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History came at a three-day expert conference in Reichenau an der Rax in December 1962 , initiated by Education Minister Heinrich Drimmel .

In 1961 the private association “Austrian Society for Contemporary History” founded the “Austrian Institute for Contemporary History”. Its director was the historian Ludwig Jedlicka , who in 1963 was one of the founders of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .

On June 3, 1966, the Institute for Contemporary History was established as a university institute by the Federal Ministry of Education on the proposal of the professors' committee of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna . Ludwig Jedlicka was appointed to the board and first professor of the newly founded institute. The institute was initially located at Rotenhausgasse 6 in the 9th district. Jedlicka's successor was Erika Weinzierl , who opened up anti-Semitism, exile and emigration research. She retired in 1995. Anton Staudinger was appointed head of the institute in 1990 , Gerhard Jagschitz in 1994 , Friedrich Stadler in 2001 , Oliver Rathkolb in 2008 , Johanna Gehmacher in 2012 , Sybille Steinbacher in 2014 and Oliver Rathkolb again in 2016. Erika Weinzierl's successor was Gerhard Botz in 1997 , Frank Stern and Carola Sachse were appointed professors in 2004, and Sybille Steinbacher was appointed in 2010. In 2013, Bertrand Perz received an associate professorship.

Since 2011, it has been possible to access all TV programs archived by ORF since 1955 as part of university theses and for research purposes. This is made possible by a research station at the Institute for Contemporary History. Alexander Wrabetz described this collaboration between the University of Vienna and the ORF as "another important step towards opening up the treasury of the ORF archive as the country's electronic memory".

The Sir Peter Ustinov Professorship of the City of Vienna for researching and combating prejudice has existed at the institute since 2003 and is awarded for the summer semester.

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literature

  • Bertrand Perz, Ina Markova (Ed.): 50 Years of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna 1966–2016. new academic press, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7003-1946-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Stadler : 40 Years Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna - Between Discipline and Field of Research (2006; PDF; 34 kB); accessed on February 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Organization . Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ ORF opens its television archive to science on derstandard.at (May 3, 2011); accessed on January 14, 2017.

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