Karl Stuhlpfarrer

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Karl Stuhlpfarrer (born September 23, 1941 in Vienna ; † November 5, 2009 ) was an Austrian historian. His main research interests were the Second World War , concentration camps , forced labor , the post-war period, culture of remembrance and minority issues .

Life

Karl was born as the third child of Leodegar and Anna Stuhlpfarrer. His father was a police officer by profession. After high school graduation and military service , he studied history and German at the University of Vienna from 1960 to 1967 . He financed his studies through summer work as a seasonal worker in the catering industry in Italian-speaking Switzerland , where he learned the Italian language . After Ludwig Jedlicka had received the order from the federal government to create a historical account of Austria's contribution to its liberation in accordance with the Moscow Declaration for the 20th anniversary of the reestablishment of the republic in 1965 , Jedlicka made his student Karl Stuhlpfarrer part of the research project . As a scholarship holder of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History , he began to write his dissertation on the operational zones Alpine Foreland and Adriatic Coastal Land 1943–1945 and received his doctorate in 1967 on this topic. To do this, he evaluated a lot of previously unprocessed archive material and was one of the first Austrian historians to work with sources of German provenance (captured German records) from the National Archives in Washington, DC .

In 1968 Stuhlpfarrer became a contract employee , and in 1970 university assistant at the University of Vienna. In his habilitation thesis he dealt with the option in South Tyrol and the resettlement of South Tyroleans during World War II. Other early research focuses were National Socialism, Austria in the post-war period and dealing with the South Tyroleans and the Slovenian minority . In his research on South Tyrol he cooperated closely with Leopold Steurer . His two-volume work Umsiedlung Südtirol 1939–1940 became a standard work on the resettlement of German-speaking minorities during the Nazi era.

Karl Stuhlpfarrer advocated understanding with Slovenia and Italy at an early stage, learned the languages ​​of both countries and often met with fellow historians from neighboring countries. As early as 1971–1972 he was involved in the Austrian-Italian historians ' meeting. When he saw not only the place-name signs but also the rule of law attacked in the Carinthian town-sign tower in 1972 , he entered the public debate as a journalist, including the book “Austria and its Slovenes”. In the work, published together with Hans Haas , he wanted to counter the rampant German nationalism and anti-Sloveneism with historical insights and remind of the state's responsibility towards minorities as stipulated in the State Treaty . The study provoked violent protests in Carinthia , and a delegation of representatives from the state demanded - in vain - that Jedlicka dismiss chair pastor.

In 1983 he became a university professor for modern history with a special focus on contemporary history. He designed several exhibitions, for example in the Kobarid Museum about the First World War , in the Vienna City Hall about the “Anschluss” in 1938 or in Bozen about the “Option”. He worked in the editorial team of the magazine zeitgeschichte with and was involved in adult education and teacher training.

In the 1990s, Karl Stuhlpfarrers dealt intensively with the Holocaust and the National Socialist concentration camps . As a result, he was appointed to the expert commission for the redesign of the Mauthausen Memorial . After visiting professorships in Ljubljana and Trieste , Stuhlpfarrer became an associate professor at the University of Vienna in 1997.

Stuhlpfarrer was a permanent expert on the Historians' Commission of the Republic of Austria from 1998-2003 , which investigated the confiscation of property in Austria during the National Socialist rule and the provisions and compensation after 1945.

In 1999 he became professor for contemporary history at the University of Klagenfurt . 2001–2002 he also became vice dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies, 2002–2007 its dean.

In 2007 he became a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences . Also in 2007 he was awarded the Vincent Rizzi Prize .

Works (selection)

  • The operational zones “Alpine Foreland” and “Adriatic Coastal Land” 1943–1945. (= Publications by the Austrian Institute for Contemporary History and the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Volume 7 ). Hollinek, Vienna 1969.
  • together with Hanns Haas: Austria and its Slovenes. Löcker & Wögenstein, Vienna 1977.
  • Relocation of South Tyrol 1939–1940. Löcker, Vienna / Munich 1985.
  • Austria - permanently neutral: Austrian foreign policy since 1945. Bundespressedienst, Vienna 1987.
  • together with Siegfried Mattl : Applied Science in National Socialism. Large-scale fantasies, geopolitics, science politics . In: Gernot Heiß, Siegfried Mattl, Sebastian Meissl, Edith Saurer and Karl Stuhlpfarrer (eds.): Willing science. The University of Vienna 1938 to 1945 . Vienna 1989: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik (Austrian Texts on Social Criticism, 43), pp. 283–301.
  • together with Bertrand Perz and Florian Freund : Bibliography on the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp. (= Series of publications by the Research Association on the History of National Socialism, Volume 1 ), Vienna 1998.
  • together with Jürgen Illigasch: The own and the foreign. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 978-3-7065-1353-1 .

Web links

literature

  • Bertrand Perz : The deconstruction of historical myths . On the work of the historian Karl Stuhlpfarrer (1941–2009) at the Institute for Contemporary History. In: Bertrand Perz, Ina Markova (Eds.): 50 Years Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna 1966–2016. new academic press, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7003-1946-7 , pp. 124-139.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Neugebauer : Ludwig Jedlicka, Herbert Steiner and resistance research. Aspects of the early history of the Institute for Contemporary History and the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. In: Bertrand Perz, Ina Markova (Eds.): 50 Years Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna 1966–2016. new academic press, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7003-1946-7 , p. 68.
  2. ^ Leopold Steurer : Karl Stuhlpfarrer (1941-2009): the historian and man . In: South Tyrolean students (ed.): Skolast. Resistance . No. 2/2009 . Bolzano 2009, p. 130–133 ( obituary online in the state library "Dr. Friedrich Teßmann" ).
  3. ^ A b Farewell to Karl Stuhlpfarrer. University of Klagenfurt, November 5, 2009, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  4. ^ Vinzenz Rizzi Prize to Karl Stuhlpfarrer. University of Klagenfurt, November 26, 2007, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stuhlpfarrer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 2009