Johanna Gehmacher

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Johanna Gehmacher (born March 17, 1962 in Abtenau ) is an Austrian historian . She is a professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

education and profession

Gehmacher studied history and selected subjects (including women's studies, philosophy and linguistics) as a second subject between 1981 and 1987, and in 1987 wrote her diploma thesis on “The 'alcohol question' as a 'women's question'. On the treatment of alcohol in the theory of Austrian social democracy with special attention to social democratic women's magazines in Austria 1918–1934 ”. In 1993 she received her doctorate in philosophy with her dissertation on the subject of National Socialist youth organizations in Austria. An Inquiry into the Importance of Gender in Politics . Her habilitation as a university lecturer for modern history with a special focus on contemporary history followed in 2001 with a monograph on the topic of “Völkische Frauenbewegung”. German National and National Socialist Gender Policy in Austria . In this study she deals with "the mutual relationship between German nationalism and women during the interwar period in Austria". In doing so, she opened up “a new field of research” and “worked on it with impressive care”. A critical review, however, sees “elementary weaknesses in evaluating and drawing conclusions”.

Gehmacher was a contract employee at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna from 1993 to 1995 and became an assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna in 1998. In 2001 she was appointed associate professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. From 2001 to 2003 she was a member of the institute conference of the Institute for Contemporary History and from January 2002 deputy head of the institute. Between 2001 and 2004 she was a member of the History Study Commission and from January 2003 she was the Deputy Chair of the Study Commission. She was also head of the institute from 2012 to 2014 and is on leave between October 2014 and September 2015 for research purposes.

Gehmacher has been co-editor of the scientific book series "Cross sections - introductory texts on social, economic and cultural history" at the Vienna History and Politics Publishing House and since 2002 co-editor of the Austrian Journal of History. Her research interests lie in the areas of contemporary history as women's and gender history, theoretical and empirical perspectives on the concept of nation, car / biography, politics and gender, social movements (women's and youth movements) and National Socialism (women's and gender history, history of memory).

Works (selection)

  • with Charlotte Kohn- Ley, Ilse Erika Kokotin : The feminist "Sundenfall"? Anti-Semitic prejudices in the women's movement , Picus, Vienna © 1994, ISBN 3-85452-261-4 (documentation of a symposium of the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in Vienna).
  • Youth without a future: Hitler Youth and Association of German Girls in Austria before 1938 Picus, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-253-3 (Dissertation University of Vienna 1993, under the title: National Socialist Youth Organizations in Austria , 479 pages).
  • "Völkische Women's Movement". German National and National Socialist Gender Policy Döcker, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85115-246-8 .
  • Between Wars: Nations, Nationalisms and Gender Relations in Central and Eastern Europe, 1918-1939 (= individual publications by the German Historical Institute Warsaw , Volume 7). Fiber, Osnabrück © 2004, ISBN 3-929759-48-9 .
  • Women's and Gender History of National Socialism. Questions, perspectives, new research . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4488-7 .
  • as editor, with Elizabeth Harvey : Politisch Reisen (= Austrian Journal for Historical Studies , Volume 22, Volume 1 ISSN  1016-765X ), StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7065-5025-3 (German and English ).

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Single receipts

  1. ^ So Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer in his review in: Austria in History and Literature 50 (2006) pp. 118f.
  2. ↑ So Erna Appelt in her review in: L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History 10 (1999) pp. 138–142.
  3. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer in his review in: Austria in History and Literature 50 (2006) pp. 118f .; z. For example, Gehmacher speaks of the “disinterest of female voters in the NSDAP” (p. 141), because the proportion of women among the votes attributable to the NSDAP in 1930 was somewhat lower (namely 44%) than in the total of votes (53%).
personal data
SURNAME Gehmacher, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Abtenau