Peter Autengruber

Peter Autengruber (born January 16, 1958 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian historian and university professor .

education

Peter Autengruber studied history and journalism . His diploma thesis in 1985 dealt with small Austrian parties. In 1993 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Josef Dobretsberger and the Democratic Union .

Career

Autengruber has been in the publishing industry since 1986. Until 1991 he worked at the Perlen-Reihe publishing house , from 1991 to 1995 he was head of the school book publisher Pichler in the publishing house of the ÖGB , from 1991 to 2015 head of the specialist book publisher and since then he has been the program manager there.

As a lecturer, he worked from 2009 to 2012 at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna and since 2011 at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

He published writings on, among other things, the history of Austrian political parties, Austrian trade union history and regional history in Vienna . His work Lexicon of Viennese Street Names , first published in 1995, is considered a standard work. He was a member of the Historians' Commission, which examined the historical significance of the namesake for Viennese street names from 2011 to 2013.

Publications (selection)

• Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, earlier names. 10th revised edition. Wundergarten Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903070-11-0 .
• The Vienna allotments. From the beginning to the present. Promedia, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85371-438-6 .
• Vanished Viennese street names. Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504475-6-9 .
• with Sabine Lichtenberger, Marliese Mendel: Required. Fought. Reached. Union work in Austrian daily newspapers since 1945. Verlag des ÖGB, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99046-226-3 (PRO-GE edition), ISBN 978-3-99046-381-9 (AK-Vienna edition), 2017 ISBN 978-3-99046-266-9 (trade union building wood edition), ISBN 978-3-99046-265-2 (trade union of private employees edition), ISBN 978-3-99046-267-6 (trade union post and Telecommunications Clerks), ISBN 978-3-99046-264-5 (union vida edition).
• with Marliese Mendel: Unique in Vienna. Records. Highlights. Superlatives. Styria Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13547-7 .
• with Manfred Mugrauer: October strike. The reality behind the legends about the strike movement in the fall of 1950. Sanctions against strikers and their withdrawal. 2nd corrected edition. Verlag des ÖGB, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99046-279-9 .
• with Bernhard Eichler: 100 years of allotment garden association Predigtstuhl 1916-2016. Allotment garden association Predigtstuhl, Vienna 2016
• with Oliver Rathkolb , Birgit Nemec and Florian Wenninger : Controversial Viennese street names. Pichler, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-85431-687-9 ( digitized online in the Austria Forum ).
• with Ursula Schwarz: Lexicon of municipal housing in Vienna: names - monuments - sights. Pichler, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-85431-623-7 .
• with Johannes Sachslehner : Maps of Memory. Memory culture in public space. Audio CD. Verlag Pichler, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85431-619-0 .
• Parks and gardens in Vienna. Promedia, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85371-281-8 .
• with Georg Pichler : 50 years of the union of private employees. Regional Head of Vienna, Vienna 1999.
• Small parties in Austria: 1945 to 1966. StudienVerlag, Vienna / Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 978-3-7065-1172-8 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography of Dr. Peter Autengruber. (PDF; 71 kB) University of Vienna , September 6, 2011, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ u: find - Mag. Dr. Peter Autengruber. University of Vienna , January 28, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
3. ^ Peter Autengruber. Book Vienna , 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Historians' report on Vienna's street names. In: wien.gv.at. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .