Wilhelm Kraus

This article deals with the historian Wilhelm Kraus. For the football player see Wilhelm Krauss , for the painter see Wilhelm Krauss (painter) .

Wilhelm Kraus (born October 27, 1900 in Haibach , † July 21, 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian . He was director of the war archive in Vienna.

Life

Kraus was born in 1900 as the son of a gendarmerie commandant from the Bohemian region in Upper Austria . After completing elementary school and high school in Gmunden , he studied history and German at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna . From 1923 to 1925 he completed the 34th training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna. In 1927, he was "The history of the church tithes in Austria from its beginnings to the 13th century" for Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1922 he became a librarian at the Vienna People's Education Association. In 1926 he became head of the Ludo Hartmann library in the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring . In 1927 he became archivist for the princes of Windisch-Graetz in Tachau (West Bohemia) and in 1929 as sub- state archivist at the House, Court and State Archives in Vienna. In 1931 he became a civil servant and in 1936 state archivist 2nd class. He initially worked in the court archives department. From 1942 to 1945 he was deputy head of the Reich Archives in Opava.

In 1948 he was appointed archivist in the Department of Court Chamber and Finance Archives of the Austrian State Archives; there he became state archivist 2nd class in 1949. In 1950 he moved to the War Archives Department, whose director he became in 1957. Previously he was promoted to senior state archivist (1955). In 1965 the Real Councilor (1962) retired.

Kraus was married twice and has three children. He was buried in the Dobling cemetery .

literature

• Kraus, Wilhelm . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 238.
• Otto Friedrich Winter : In memoriam Wilhelm Kraus . In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 32 (1979), pp. 487–492.

Web links

• Publications by Wilhelm Kraus in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii