Kurt Bauer (historian)

Kurt Bauer (* 1961 in St. Peter am Kammersberg , Styria ) is an Austrian historian .

Kurt Bauer learned the profession of typesetter, graduated from the Higher Graphic School in Vienna and subsequently worked as a manufacturer for various Viennese publishers. He completed his studies in history at the University of Vienna in 2002 with a dissertation on the socio-historical aspects of the National Socialist July coup . Bauer works as a freelance lecturer and contributes to research projects.

His numerous publications deal primarily with the social history of rural areas and with fascism . In 2003 he received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book , a recognition prize for elementary event .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Elemental event. The Austrian National Socialists and the July Putsch 1934. Czernin, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7076-0164-1 .
• National Socialism. Origins, Beginnings, Rise and Fall. Böhlau / UTB, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3076-0 .
• Hitler's second coup. Dollfuss, the Nazis and July 25, 1934. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3329-3 .
• The Dark Years: Politics and Everyday Life in National Socialist Austria 1938 to 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29903-4 .
• The February Uprising of 1934. Facts and Myths. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-23229-2 (as e-book: ISBN 978-3-205-23231-5 ).

Editorships

• The fascination of driving. Out and about by bike , motorcycle and automobile . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77097-8 .
• Peasant life. From the old life in the country. Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77315-2 ; 3rd edition 2007.

Articles (selection)

• Hitler and the July Putsch 1934 in Austria. A case study on National Socialist foreign policy in the early phase of the regime. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Issue 2, April 2011. pp. 193-227.
• The calculated escalation. National socialism and violence in Vienna around 1930. In: Wolfgang Kos (Hrsg.): Kampf um die Stadt. Politics, art and everyday life around 1930. Catalog for the exhibition at the Wien Museum in the Künstlerhaus, November 19, 2009 to March 28, 2010. Vienna 2010, pp. 35–45.
• “Heil Deutschösterreich!” The German national camp at the beginning of the First Republic. In: Helmut Konrad , Wolfgang Maderthaner (eds.): … The rest is Austria. Becoming the First Republic. Volume 1. Vienna 2008, pp. 261–280.
• "To say strictly no is not a good thing". About Dollfuss' attempts to do business with the National Socialists. In: The Jewish Echo . European forum for culture and politics. Vol. 55, October 2006, pp. 85-94.
• Workers' Party? On the social structure of the illegal NSDAP in Austria. In: Zeitgeschichte , Volume 29, Issue 5, 2002, pp. 259–272.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Bauer's website
• Kurt Bauer's biography on the Czernin Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Renner Institute: Acknowledgment Prize 2003 ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )