Stefan Eminger

Stefan Eminger (born 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and contemporary historian . In particular, he works on the crimes of the Nazi regime in what was then Reichsgau Niederdonau .

life and work

Eminger studied - after two semesters of law - history and German philology at the University of Vienna . In 1995 he completed his master’s degree with a thesis on trade policy and commercial organizations in Austria at the time of the global economic crisis . phil. with a thesis on organizational forms, interest politics and political mobility of trade in Austria from 1930 to 1938 . From 1996 to 2000 he was involved in two research projects by Karl Haas , which were made possible by the anniversary fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, at the same time he was a research assistant at the Lower Austrian State Archives in St. Pölten. Since then, his main areas of work have included forced labor in the Nazi regime, the so-called Aryanizations and provisions in the historic Reichsgau Niederdonau . Since 2005 Eminger has been head of the department for the contemporary history holdings of the State Archives.

Together with his colleague Ernst Langthaler, he published the paperback Lower Austria. From the First World War to the Present , published by Haymon in 2012. Also together with Langthaler - as well as Oliver Kühschelm and Peter Melichar - he acted as editor of the three-volume History of Lower Austria in the 20th Century, which was published in 2008 by Böhlau. Eminger is also a curator of regional and state historical exhibitions on the 20th century and is active in teacher training.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• History (s) of the Catholic youth in Obersdorf. Contemporary historical contributions to young people living in rural areas. Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name on 16./17. June 2001 and 23./24. June 2001 in the Kultursaal Obersdorf, Obersdorf 2001.
• Lifeworlds of the Großgemeinde Wolkersdorf 1870–2000 , Wolkersdorf : Stadtgemeinde Wolkersdorf 2004, ISBN 3-200-00284-0
• The trade in Austria 1930–1938 , forms of organization, politics of interest and political mobility, Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4000-2
• Lower Austria. From the First World War to the present . Innsbruck 2013 (with Ernst Langthaler).

Contributions

• Childhood and youth in the "time of change". Everyday experiences, survival strategies and room for maneuver of adolescents 1943 to 1948, in: Yearbook for Regional Studies of Lower Austria NF 72/73/74 (2006–2008), pp. 73–92.
• The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives 1938–1945 . In: General Directorate of the Austrian State Archives (ed.): Austria's Archives under the Hakenkreuz , Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2010 (= communications from the Austrian State Archives 54), ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , pp. 473-525
• The policy of the Austrian chambers of commerce 1930 - 1938 (pdf, univie.ac.at).
• Foreign forced labor in the Niederdonau An overview . In: Heinz Arnberger / Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (ed.): Commemoration and dunning in Lower Austria. Reminder signs of resistance, persecution, exile and liberation. Mandelbaum Verlag 2011, pp. 164–180.

editor

• Regulated country . Agricultural policy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1930–1960; Ernst Bruckmüller on his 60th birthday, Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4072-X (Ed. With Ernst Langthaler and Josef Redl )
• Soviets, black market, state treaty. Keywords for Lower Austria 1945–1955 . St. Pölten 2005, ISBN 3-85326-398-4 (edited with Ernst Langthaler).
• Wolkersdorf 1938. Memories of the Jewish residents of Wolkersdorf. Wolkersdorf 2007 (Ed. With Christian Schrefel , Johanna Grützbauch and the Association for Documenting the History of the Jewish Population in Wolkersdorf )
• Lower Austria in the 20th Century , 3 volumes, Vienna 2008 (Ed. With Oliver Kühschelm , Ernst Langthaler and Peter Melichar ):
  • Volume 1: Politics. Lower Austrian Provincial Archives, Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78197-4 (edited with Ernst Langthaler)
  • Volume 2: Economy. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78246-9 , GoogleBooks (edited with Ernst Langthaler and Peter Melichar)
  • Volume 3: Culture. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78247-6 , (edited with Oliver Kühschelm and Ernst Langthaler)
• A country in fast motion , Lower Austria since 1848, Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz [2012], ISBN 978-3-99028-068-3 (together with Elisabeth Loinig and Willibald Rosner)
• Street story (s). Trade routes across Europe and right through the Weinviertel. Brochure accompanying the exhibition of the same name in Wolkersdorf Castle (May 5, 2013 to October 27, 2013), Wolkersdorf 2013 (together with Wolfgang Galler)
• Far from the front - in the middle of the war , Lower Austria 1914–1918. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Lower Austrian State Library from September 30, 2014 to February 27, 2015, Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-381-3 (together with Achim Doppler and Elisabeth Loinig)
• St. Pölten between the wars. Politics, economy, culture 1918–1938 (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies 63), the lectures of the 3rd short conference of the Lower Austrian regional archive together with the cultural office of the state capital in the anniversary year 2013, City Museum St. Pölten, September 24, 2013 , St. Pölten 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Eminger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage listing his activities