Leopold Steurer (historian)

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Leopold Steurer (2001)

Leopold Steurer (* 1946 in Sterzing , South Tyrol , Italy ) is an Italian historian who deals with the regional history of the 19th and 20th centuries in South Tyrol. At the beginning of the 1980s, Steurer made significant contributions to coming to terms with the era of National Socialism in the region.

Life

Leopold Steurer, son of a tenant family from Sterzing , grew up on a farm. In 1966 he graduated from the Realgymnasium in Brixen and then began studying history , German , philosophy and political science at the universities of Vienna and Bonn . In 1975 he received his doctorate with a dissertation submitted in Vienna on the history of South Tyrol between 1919 and 1939. In 1976 he returned to South Tyrol and started teaching there. From 1981 until his retirement in 2010 he taught as a high school professor for history and philosophy at the secondary school in Bozen. In addition to his work as a historical researcher and mediator, Steurer was also politically active in the 1980s in the environment of the green alternative movement around Alexander Langer ; he was personally acquainted with Langer from his high school days.

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In his main work South Tyrol between Rome and Berlin 1919–1939 (1980), Steurer outlines the effects of the alliance policy between the German Reich and fascist Italy , which culminated in a resettlement agreement for South Tyrol ( option ) in 1939 . In his remarks, Steurer follows the research approach of the historian Claus Gatterer , from whose work he was substantially inspired. In 2011, together with Günther Pallaver, he presented a comprehensive anthology on the history and reception of the South Tyrolean resettlement. In this volume more recent partial results of the relevant research on the topic are processed, which go back to Steurer's thematic impulses from the 1980s.

Publications

  • South Tyrol between Rome and Berlin. 1919-1939. Europa Verlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1980.
  • A forgotten chapter of South Tyrolean history. The resettlement and extermination of the South Tyrolean mentally ill as part of the National Socialist euthanasia program. Edition swooping flights, Bolzano 1982.
  • South Tyrol 1939–1945. In: Anton Pelinka , Andreas Maislinger (ed.): Handbook for the modern history of Tyrol. Volume 2; Contemporary history , part 1. Innsbruck 1993, pp. 179-311.
  • (with Martha Verdorfer and Walter Pichler) Persecuted, ostracized, forgotten. Biographical memories of the resistance against National Socialism and war. South Tyrol 1943–1945. Edition Swooping Flights, Bolzano 1993.
  • (Ed. With Günther Pallaver ) Germans! Hitler is selling you! The legacy of option and world war in South Tyrol. Edition Raetia, Bolzano 2011.
  • South Tyrolean publications on the bomb years between critical analysis, apology and trivialization. In: Politika 11th yearbook for politics / Annuario di politica / Anuer de pulitica. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-88-7283-388-9 , pp. 367-396.
  • Propaganda in the "liberation struggle". In: Hannes Obermair et al. (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion - Cittadini innanzi tutto. Festschrift for / Scritti in onore di Hans Heiss. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 , pp. 386-400.

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Web links

Commons : Leopold Steurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation by Leopold Steurer (University of Vienna, 1975)
personal data
SURNAME Steurer, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing , South Tyrol , Italy