Siegfried Beer

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Siegfried Beer at the Elevate Festival 2019

Siegfried Beer (born June 24, 1948 in Scheibbs , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian historian and secret service specialist . Until his retirement in October 2013 he was Associate Professor at the Karl-Franzens University Graz at the Institute for History. He is qualified to teach general modern history and general contemporary history.

Life

Beer studied history and English / American studies at the University of Vienna and Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) . He completed his habilitation at the University of Graz for general modern and general contemporary history, where he was an associate professor. Beer was a Schumpeter Research Professor at Harvard University from 1996-1997. He has been a member of the Vienna Restitution Commission since 1999, and a member of the State Historical Commission for Styria (HLK) since 2004. In 2007 he was Botstiber Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and since 2008 he has headed the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) in Media, Pennsylvania. In 2014 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

His main research interests are international relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, Anglo-American history since 1776, secret services in the 20th century, Austria in the 20th century. He is the head of ACIPSS, the "Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies", which he founded in 2004. Siegfried Beer has been editor of the "Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies" (JIPSS) since 2007.

Publications

  • The "immoral" union. British policy on Austria between containment and appeasement 1931–1934 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 75). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1988, ISBN 3-205-08748-8 (At the same time: Vienna, University, dissertation, 1981/82: Between “Containment” and “Appeasement”. ).
  • with Stefan Karner : The war from the air. Carinthia and Styria. 1941-1945. Weishaupt, Graz 1992, ISBN 3-900310-38-6 .
  • as editor: The "British" Styria 1945–1955 (= research on the historical regional studies of Styria, vol. 38). Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-901251-09-X .
  • as editor with others: Austria under Allied occupation. 1945–1955 (= studies on politics and administration. Vol. 63). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1998, ISBN 3-205-98588-5 .
  • as editor: Focus Austria. From a multi-ethnic empire to an EU state. Festschrift for Alfred Ableitinger on his 65th birthday (= series of publications by the Institute for History. Vol. 15). Institute for History, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-901921-22-2 .
  • as editor with James S. Amelang: Public Power in Europe. Studies in Historical Transformations (= Creating links and innovative overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the citizens of a growing Europe. Thematic work group 1: States, legislation, institutions. Vol. 1). PLUS-Pisa University Press, Pisa 2006, ISBN 88-8492-401-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.acipss.org/about-us/acipss-lösungen
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and secret service specialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheibbs