Walter Blasi

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Walter Blasi (born May 7, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ministerial official and military historian .

Life

Blasi visited the modern language branch of BRG 21 in Vienna's 21st district ( Floridsdorf ). After graduation he began in 1973/74, a law school in Vienna. In 1974 he did his regular military service with the telecommunications reconnaissance battalion of supply regiment 1 of the armed forces. He then became a contract employee in the Army News Office of the Federal Ministry for National Defense in Vienna. In 1980 he passed the administrative service examination and became a civil servant .

From 1991 to 1995 he studied history at the University of Vienna ( graduation 1995). He received the Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize (1995) for his diploma thesis and the Leopold Figl Prize for his excellent graduation. Then he began a doctoral degree. In 2000 he was a by Bertrand Michael Buchmann and Lothar Höbelt supervised dissertation on Emil Liebitzky to Dr. phil. PhD. He was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences .

From 1998 to 2001 he worked in the military science office of the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport in Vienna. From 2001 to 2003 he worked in the Department of Contemporary Military History at the National Defense Academy. Subsequently, he was a speaker for the issues of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and Aviation Troops in the Austrian State Archives - War Archives. Since 2006 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Science and Research of the Security Academy at the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Blasi published in the fields of military and contemporary history, railways and motor vehicle history. He is currently the author of the virtual exhibition “100 Years of the First World War” at the Austrian State Archives.

He was u. a. Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Army Studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • From the fin de siècle to the Kreisky era. Experienced Austrian history using the example of Jaromir Diakow (= contributions to the modern history of Austria . Volume 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-30304-1 .
  • General of the Artillery Ing. Emil Liebitzky - Austria's "Heusinger"? (= Military History and Defense Sciences , Volume 6). Bernard & Graefe, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-7637-6239-2 .
  • Edited with Erwin A. Schmidl , Felix Schneider: B-Gendarmerie, weapons store and intelligence services. The military way to the State Treaty . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-205-77267-9 .
  • Soldier on two wheels. The motorcycles of the Federal Army of the First Republic (1920–1938) . Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902526-41-0 .
  • with Bernhard Tötschinger: The kuk aviation troops. On the history of Austria-Hungary's “aerial acrobats” . Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504274-6-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Walter Blasi: The B-Gendarmerie. The forerunner organization of the Austrian Armed Forces . In: Wolfgang Etschmann , Hubert Speckner (ed.): For the protection of the Republic of Austria (= writings on the history of the Austrian Armed Forces , special volume). Gra & Wis, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902455-03-9 , p. 65 (short curriculum vitae).
  2. ^ Walter Blasi: From the fin de siècle to the Kreisky era. Experienced Austrian history using the example of Jaromir Diakow (= contributions to the modern history of Austria . Volume 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-30304-1 , p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Blasi, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ministerial official and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna