Robert Rill

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Robert Rill (* 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian .

Rill was born in 1960 as the son of the historian Gerhard Rill (1927–2015), later director of the House, Court and State Archives , in Vienna. From 1978 to 1984 he studied history and political science at the University of Vienna . In 1986, he was at Erika Weinzierl the Institute of Contemporary History to Dr. phil. PhD.

Since 1992 he has been working in the war archive of the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. As a consultant, he is head of the map collection and the holdings of “military legacies and collections”. He is also the author of the ÖStA's virtual exhibition “100 Years of the First World War”. He published, among other things, on contemporary and church history as well as on the history of cartography , fortifications and railways ; Article published in The Eighteenth Century and Austria , the communications of the Austrian State Archives and in the Annali dell ' Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento .

Rill is married and has five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • History of the Augustinian Canons' Monastery in Klosterneuburg 1938 to 1945 (= publications of the International Research Center for Basic Questions in the Sciences, Salzburg . NF, Vol. 22). Geyer, Vienna a. a. 1985.
  • CV and National Socialism in Austria (= publications of the International Research Center for Basic Questions in Science, Salzburg . NF, Vol. 28). Geyer, Vienna a. a. 1987.
  • with Ulrich E. Zellberg (Ed.): Conservatism in Austria: currents, ideas, people and associations from the beginning until today . Stocker, Graz a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-7020-0860-8 .
  • (Ed. And licensed.): Fritz Schirmer: War History Atlas: To study the campaigns of the years 1792 to 1904 . Ed. Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502845-5-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leopold Auer: Gerhard Rill † . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 124 (2016) 1, pp. 265–267, here: p. 267.
  2. ↑ The dispute between the Cartell Association in Austria and National Socialism , univie.ac.at, accessed on August 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Kriegsarchiv - Kontakt , oesta.gv.at, accessed on August 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rill, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna