Rainer Egger (historian)

Rainer Egger (born January 15, 1935 in Baden near Vienna ; † October 3, 2009 in Berlin ) was an Austrian historian . He was Director of the War Archives and Deputy General Director of the Austrian State Archives .

Life

Egger was born in 1935 as the son of a lawyer; he comes from a respected Viennese middle class family. He attended the Realgymnasium Vienna XII ( Meidling ) and studied history and art history at the University of Vienna . From 1956 to 1959 he completed the 48th training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Afterwards he received a scholarship under Heinrich Appelt at the University of Graz in the Diplomata department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In 1961 he was with Leo Santifaller on “The writers of the documents of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . Preliminary studies for a law firm's history "for Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1962 he became a contract employee in the war archive department of the Austrian State Archives. In 1962 he became provisional and in 1967 permanent state archivist, 2nd class, and in 1969, state archivist, 1st class. In 1970 he was given the official title of archive chief commissioner. In 1972 he was promoted to the Archives Council and in 1978 to the Senior Council. He initially dealt with the issue of service confirmations for members of the Wehrmacht . In 1966 he became head of department for personnel matters in the Austro-Hungarian army and in 1983 head of department of the military central offices. From 1988 he was also responsible for the preparations for the relocation of the war archive. From 1992 to 2000 he was director of the war archives after being appointed councilor . In 1998 he was also deputy general director of Lorenz Mikoletzky at the Austrian State Archives. In 2000 he retired.

In 2000 he became an honorary member of the Association of Austrian Archivists . Before that he was editor of the association's journal Scrinium from 1969 to 2000 and from 1970 to 1987 1st secretary and from 1987 to 2001 vice-president of the association. He was also a member of the Autrichienne d'Histoire Militaire Commission and, from 1991, lecturer at the University of Vienna. He published numerous articles in the New German Biography and in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 to 1950 .

He was awarded the Cross of Honor on the Ribbon of the Black Cross and the Hungarian Cross of Merit 1st Class.

Egger was married and the father of two children, including the historian Christoph Egger (* 1963).

Fonts (selection)

• The battle near Dürnstein-Loiben. 1805 (= Military History Series . H. 3). Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1965.
• The battle at Hollabrunn and Schöngrabern in 1805 (= military historical series . H. 27). Österreichischer Bundesverlag for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-215-73225-4 .

literature

• Egger, Rainer . 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. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 107.
• Erich Hillbrand : Rainer Egger † . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 118 (2010), pp. 541–542.

Web links

• Christoph Tepperberg : Councilor Dr. Rainer EGGER (1935–2009) . oesta.gv.at, October 7, 2009.
• Publications by Rainer Egger in the Opac der Regesta Imperii