Otto Friedrich Winter

Otto Friedrich Winter (born May 11, 1918 in Vienna ; † May 28, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian historian and politician ( ÖVP ). He was Director of the War Archives and Deputy General Director of the Austrian State Archives .

Life

Winter was born in 1918 as one of four children of a doctor of law, kuk officer (captain- auditor ) and district judge of the First Republic who died early in Vienna. After graduating from high school in Vienna VI ( Mariahilf ) in 1936 , he did military service in the Austrian Armed Forces , in 1937 he retired as a reserve officer candidate .

He then began studying history and classical philology at the University of Vienna , originally wanting to specialize in Byzantine studies. He also completed the course at the Institute for Historical Research and Archival Studies in Vienna (state examination 1943). In the Second World War he was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht and wounded several times. During a leave from the front in 1941, he received his dissertation on ancient royal elevations and their further education through the Byzantine Empire. Possibilities and obstacles to their effectiveness in the service of the Rhomean universal idea until the end of the Komnen time to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1942 he came to the Vienna Reichsarchiv as an assessor.

In 1949 he became archivist at the House, Court and State Archives in Vienna, in particular responsible for the holdings of the Reichsarchiv. In 1961 he became deputy director and in 1966 provisional and in 1967 final director (until 1983) of the war archive. In 1970 he became a real councilor . From 1980 to 1983 he was deputy general director of the Austrian State Archives in Vienna under Rudolf Neck .

From 1977 to 1985 he was Vice President of the Association of Austrian Archivists . He was also a member of the Austrian Byzantine Society , a member of the Autrichienne d'Histoire Militaire Commission, head of the Military History Section ( Österreichische Historikertage ) , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance , a member of the Working Group of Niederösterreichischer Heimatforscher ( Education and Heimatwerk Niederösterreich ) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the District Museum New building in the 7th district of Vienna. In 1961 he became a committee member, in 1971 vice-president, in 1976 president (successor to Adalbert Klaar ) and in 1991 honorary president of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria , of which he was a member from 1956.

In 1983 he was adopted by the Austrian army as captain of the reserve .

He published mainly on military history and source studies , his research interests lay in the Empire of the Byzantine Empire , in the administration of the Holy Roman Empire of the early modern period and in Lower Austrian regional studies . Numerous articles appeared and a. in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 .

In 1945 he became a member of the Austrian Workers' Association of the ÖVP and later acted as their district chairman in Vienna's 7th district ( new building ). From 1960 to 1966 he was a district councilor and from 1966 to 1969, as a replacement for Erich Kabesch (ÖVP), he was a member of the 9th Vienna State Parliament and member of the Vienna City Council .

He was also a parish council member in St. Laurenz am Schottenfeld , a board member of the Catholic men's movement and chairman of the boy scout parents. He, a Roman Catholic, was married from 1949 and the father of four children (including two stepchildren).

Awards

• 1963: Ring of honor of the market town of Rossatz
• 1974: Great decoration of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1977: Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
• 1978: Great decoration of honor for services to the federal state of Lower Austria
• 1982: Medal of honor 1st class of the Austrian Black Cross
• 1983: Honorary saber of the Hungarian Armed Forces
• 1984: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 1989: Commander's Cross of the Papal New Year's Eve
• 1990: Professional title " Professor "
• 1991: Renewal of the doctoral degree of the humanities faculty at the University of Vienna

Fonts (selection)

• (Arr.): Regesten Linz . Volume C III A 3rd ed. From the Archives of the City of Linz , Linz 1960.
• The Viennese imperial authorities and the Frankish imperial cities . Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1964.
• Repertory of the diplomatic representatives of all countries since the Peace of Westphalia (1648) . Volume 3: 1764-1815 . Published by the International Committee on Historical Studies under the direction of Leo Santifaller . Böhlau, Graz a. a. 1965.

See also

• List of MPs to the Vienna State Parliament and members of the Vienna City Council (9th electoral term)

literature

• Helmuth Feigl : Otto Friedrich Winter on his 75th birthday . In: Otto Friedrich Winter on his 75th birthday (= yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria . New series 59). 1992, pp. 1–6 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; with a catalog of works).
• Winter, Otto Friedrich . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Volume 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 460.

Web links

• Publications by Otto Friedrich Winter in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii