Rudolf Neck

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Rudolf Neck (born July 4, 1921 Vienna ; † July 21, 1999 there ) was an Austrian historian and archivist .

Youth and education

Rudolf Neck graduated from high school in the spring of 1939 and then completed the Reich Labor Service , which was a requirement for enrollment for his year . From October 1939 he studied history , German and Romance languages at the University of Vienna . In 1941 he became the German Wehrmacht confiscated and fought as a gunner in the German-Soviet war . After the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the English. After his release in March 1946, he continued his studies at the University continued and in 1948 with a dissertation on the Turkish policy Cardinal Khlesls Dr. phil is doing his doctorate . In the same year he passed the state examination from a course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , which enabled him to work in archives. In this institute he also worked as an assistant until 1949.

Career and research

From 1949 Neck made a career at the Austrian State Archives : first he worked as an archivist, in 1973 he became head of the archives office , 1976 director of the department of general administrative archives and from 1979 to 1986 he was the general director of the Austrian State Archives. Due to his initiative, the archive moved to the new building in Erdberg .

His early research dealt with Austria of the 16th and 17th centuries, but contemporary history came to the fore as early as the 1950s . Neck founded the Working Group for the History of the Labor Movement in Austria in 1957 and from 1964 was managing director of the International Conference of Historians of the Labor Movement . In 1971 he founded the Scientific Commission for Research into the History of the Republic of Austria , whose research results he published in around 30 volumes together with Ludwig Jedlicka and Adam Wandruszka .

From 1982 to 1986 Neck was a member of the International Archives Council and in 1987 adviser to the Federal Government on archival issues.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Hedwig Benna: Rudolf Neck for his 65th birthday . In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives . No. 39 . Vienna 1987, p. 1-3 .
  2. ^ A b c Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 6, Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00741-0 , p. 166.
  3. ↑ Isabella Ackerl : Former General Director of the State Archives has died. Neck made contemporary history socially acceptable. In: wienerzeitung.at . July 30, 1999, accessed March 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Neck, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1999
Place of death Vienna