Stefan Karner

Stefan Karner in 2016

Stefan Karner (born December 18, 1952 in St. Jakob im Rosental ) is an Austrian historian . Until his retirement at the end of February 2018, he was director of the Institute for Economic, Social and Corporate History at the Karl-Franzens University Graz , founder and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for research on the consequences of war and director of the media course at the University of Graz.

Life

Stefan Karner studied history and Russian . He received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Graz, where he obtained his habilitation there in 1985 for the latest economic and social history and for Austrian contemporary history. His dissertation on “Carinthia's economy 1938–1945” appeared in print.

Stefan Karner is dedicated to contemporary Austrian history in an economic and socio-historical context, the contemporary history of Central Eastern and Eastern Europe and the history of the Soviet Union . In 1993 he founded the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War as part of the scientific research into this topic. The institute researches the political, economic, humanitarian and social consequences of wars and conflicts, especially the humanitarian consequences of World War II (prisoners of war, forced laborers, displaced persons).

Karner deals with restitution , reparation , compensation for forced laborers and compensation for former Austrian prisoners of war. He works as a scientific advisor for Austrian ministries, including questions about the AVNOJ resolutions , the Beneš decrees and the ethnic group issue in Carinthia.

On behalf of Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel , Stefan Karner worked as a mediator in the Carinthian minority conflict in 2005/2006 ( local board dispute ). Under his leadership, the proposal came about, which became known as " Karner Paper ". Karner has scientifically directed several large exhibitions, most recently the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Austria in 2009 . Czech Republic. divided - separated - united , previously Austria in 2008 . 90 years of republic in parliament and in 2005 the state treaty exhibition at Schallaburg Austria is free! He has been chairman of the bilateral Austro-Slovenian historians 'commission since 2001 and chairman of the Austro-Russian historians' commission since 2008 and a member of the scientific commission of the Federal Ministry for National Defense since 2006.

Public functions

From 1995 to 2010 Karner was Austria's representative in the “European Commission against Racism and Intolerance” (ECRI) of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and from 1995 to 2010 he was Vice President of the Political Academy of the ÖVP in Vienna. From 1997 to 1999 he took over the overall management of the “Austria futuristic” think tank. Between 1998 and 2004 he was a member of the administrative board of the “EU Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia ” (EUMC) in Vienna.

Karner was a member of the contact committee of the Austrian Federal Government for the conception of a “ House of the History of the Republic of Austria ”, and from 2004 he also had a seat on the Presidium of the Karl Kummer Institute for Social Policy in Vienna.

In 2007 and 2008 he headed a research project with around 80 historians who examined the Prague Spring at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War in Graz .

Stefan Karner is the founding director of the House of History in Lower Austria . On January 1, 2018, Christian Rapp succeeded him as Scientific Director.

Awards

• Decoration of honor of the market town of St. Jakob / Rosental
• 1995 Austrian Scientist of the Year
• 1996 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class
• 1996 Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• 1997 Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with the star of the Austrian Black Cross for services to prisoner of war research
• 1998 Grand Silver Medal of the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation for services in rehabilitation of victims of political repression
• 2004 Alois-Mock-Europaring of the Catholic Reichsbund
• 2005 Great Decoration of Honor from the State of Carinthia
• 2005 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2006 Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the Province of Lower Austria
• 2007 Medal "Pride of Russia"
• 2009 Gold medal with crystals from the city of Völkermarkt
• 2009 European Citizens' Prize of the European Parliament together with the Carinthian Consensus Group
• 2009 Culture Prize of the City of Villach together with the Carinthian Consensus Group
• 2009 Austrian Constitutional Prize of the "Forum Constitution" (together with the consensus group)
• 2011 Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2012 Commander of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2012 Great Golden Decoration of the State of Carinthia .
• 2016 honorary doctorate from the Russian State University of Humanities in Moscow
• 2019 Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• 2019: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary

Publications

Karner has published over 300 scientific articles in specialist journals and around 20 monographs, including:

• Carinthia's economy 1938–1945 . Klagenfurt 1976.
• Styria in the Third Reich 1938–1945 . 1st and 2nd ed. 1986, 3rd ed. 1994, ISBN 3-7011-7171-8
• War from the air. Carinthia and Styria 1941–1945 . Graz 1992 (with Siegfried Beer ), ISBN 3-900310-38-6
• Secret files of the KGB . Margarita Ottilinger . Graz 1992.
• In the GUPVI archipelago. Captivity and internment in the Soviet Union 1941–1956 . Vienna / Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7029-0399-2 (Vienna), ISBN 3-486-56119-7 (Munich). Russian: Moscow 2002.
• "Loot files from Austria". The Austrian holdings in the Russian “special archive” Moscow . Graz 1996 (with Gerhard Jagschitz ).
• The German-speaking ethnic group in Slovenia 1939–1997 . Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 1998.
• House of the History of the Republic of Austria (HGÖ): Feasibility study on behalf of the BMUK . Graz / Vienna / Klagenfurt 1999 (with Manfried Rauchsteiner ).
• Forced labor in agriculture and forestry in Austria from 1939 to 1945 . Vienna / Munich 2004 (with Peter Ruggenthaler).
• Styria in the 20th century . Graz 2000, 2nd edition Graz 2005.
• The first step on the long road to the State Treaty. Soviet considerations on state building in 1945/46 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-700732-50-3
• Styria. From the First World War to the present . Innsbruck-Vienna 2012.
• Growth in motion. 85 years of MIBA. Growth in Motion: 85 Years of MIBA . Edited by F. Mitterbauer - Therse Niss and MIBA. Laakirchen 2012 (with Christoph H. Benedikter).

Karner acted as editor for:

• When Central Europe broke up . Graz / Vienna 1990 (with Gerald Schöpfer ).
• Caught in Russia . Graz / Vienna 1995.
• People after the war. Fates 1945–1955 . St. Pölten 1995 (with Gerhard Jagschitz).
• The staff meetings of the Nazi civil administration in Lower Styria . Graz / Vienna 1996.
• The war against the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Graz / Vienna 1998.
• Cold war . Graz 2002 (with Erich Reiter and Gerald Schöpfer).
• The Red Army in Austria. Soviet occupation 1945–1955. Volume 1: Articles, Volume 2: Documents . 1st and 2nd editions Vienna / Munich 2005.
• Carinthia and the national question in the 20th century. 5 volumes. Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2005.
• Prisoners of war of the Second World War . Vienna / Munich 2005 (with Günter Bischof and Barbara Stelzl-Marx).
• Boundaries Austria - Slovenia - Hungary 1914-2004 . Graz / Fehring 2007 (with Wolfram Dornik and Rudolf Graßmug).
• Resistance in Austria 1938–1945: The contributions to the parliamentary inquiry 2005 . Graz / Vienna 2007 (with Karl Duffek).
• Wolfram Dornik - Stefan Karner (ed.), The Occupation of Ukraine 1918. Historical context - state of research - economic and social consequences (= publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for War Consequences Research. Vol. 11). Graz / Vienna / Klagenfurt 2008.
• Austria. Czech Republic. divided - separated - united, contribution volume and catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2009 . Schallaburg 2009, with Michal Stehlík.
• Česko. Rakousko. Rozděleni - odloučeni - spojeni. Ve spolupráci s Arminem Lausseggerem a Philippem Lesiakem. Sborník a catalog Dolnorakouské zemské výstavy 2009 . Schallaburg / Jihlava 2009 (with Michal Stehlík).
• The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 . The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Lanham / Boulder / New York / Toronto / Plymouth 2009 (with Günter Bischof and Peter Ruggenthaler).
• Nordberg. The way into space. Contribution volume to the symposium and exhibition in Fehring 2010 . Graz / Fehring 2010. (with Bruno P. Besser and Walter M. Iber).
• Austrian Jews in Latvia. Escape - asylum - internment . Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010 (with Philipp Lesiak and Heinrichs Strods).
• The Vienna Summit in 1961. Kennedy - Khrushchev . Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2011 (with Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Natalja Tomilina, Alexander Tschubarjan, Günter Bischof, Viktor Iščenko, Michail Prozumenščikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Gerhard Wettig, Manfred Wilke).
• In the footsteps of Wallenberg , Vienna 2014.
• First World War. Global conflict - local consequences. New Perspectives , Innsbruck; Vienna [u. a.]: Studien Verlag 2014 (publications by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War; 27), ISBN 978-3-7065-5386-5 (with Philipp Lesiak).
• In the Cold War of espionage: Margarethe Ottillinger in Soviet custody 1948–1955 , with the collaboration of Sabine Nachbaur, Dieter Bacher and Harald Knol, Studien Verlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5521-0 .
• The embattled republic. Austria from 1918–1938 , Studien Verlag, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7065-5637-8 .

On his 60th birthday, an extensive commemorative publication with contributions by leading historians was dedicated to him: Gerald Schöpfer, Barbara Stelzl-Marx (ed.), Economy. Power. History. Breaks and breaks in continuity in the 20th century. Festschrift Stefan Karner , Graz / Vienna 2012.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Karner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Stefan Karner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefan Karner on the website of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
• Team of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Karner: Carinthia's economy 1938–1945. With special consideration of the armaments industry (= scientific publications of the state capital Klagenfurt. Vol. 2). With an afterword by Albert Speer . Magistrate / Cultural Office, Klagenfurt 1976.
2. ↑ Prague Spring: The fear of the KP bosses of the drug freedom  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 22, 2008)  
3. ↑ orf.at: Rapp becomes the new head of the House of History . Article dated November 23, 2017, accessed November 24, 2017.
4. ↑ Karner is an honorary doctorate at Moscow University on ORF from November 24, 2016, accessed on November 25, 2016.
5. ↑ orf.at: Land honored Gerhard Draxler . Article dated June 3, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019.
6. ^ Dieter Bacher: High distinction for Stefan Karner - Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War. Retrieved November 28, 2019 (German).