Wilhelm Bauer (historian)
Wilhelm Bauer (born May 31, 1877 in Vienna , † November 23, 1953 in Linz ) was an Austrian professor of general history in modern times .
Bauer was the son of a Danube steamship company director. After studies in Vienna ( Austrian Institute of Historical Research . 1901, PhD 1902) and habilitation (1907; "The beginnings of Ferdinand I"), he was an associate in 1917 and 1923 Professor of University of Vienna , and in 1931 and 1939 corresponding real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1920 to 1945 he was editor of the communications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. He succeeded Raimund Friedrich Kaindl as full professor for Austrian history and Ottokar Weber for general history. Bauer belonged to the Greater German People's Party and since 1941 to the National Socialist German Workers' Party . He was a member of the anti-Semitic professors' clique Bärenhöhle . He was relieved of teaching at the University of Vienna in 1945 and retired in 1946 as “unsustainable”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Bauer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle, Glimpflich denazisiert. The professorships of the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years, Writings of the Archives of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, p. 283
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| SURNAME | Bauer, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1953 |
| Place of death | Linz |