Wolfgang Weber (historian, 1964)

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Wolfgang Weber (* 1964 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian historian .

Life

Wolfgang Weber studied history at the Universities of Innsbruck , Salzburg , Klagenfurt , Vienna , Essex , at the University College London and at the Free University of Berlin . He was appointed to the University of Derby (UK) in 1997 , to the University of Wolverhampton (UK) in 1999 and in 2005 as Professor of History and Social Studies at the Vorarlberg University of Education in Feldkirch , which was founded in 2007 .

From 1994 to 2011 Weber was head of the administrative archive at the Vorarlberg State Archives in Bregenz . Since 2005 he has been a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck .

Awards

  • 1996: Ludwig-Jedlicka-Förderungspreis
  • 2001: Language Prize from the Dr. Emmi Herzberger Foundation

Publications

  • with others: searching for traces. Documentation for the international conference on the role of the <new> historical methods in regional history. Dornbirn History Days May 29 to June 1, 1991, Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 1993, ISBN 3-89073-590-8
  • with Jürgen Weber: Every company is a red fortress! The KPÖ in Vorarlberg 1920-1956. Series of publications by the Rheticus Society 32, Dornbirn 1994, ISBN 3-900866-35-X .
  • with Werner Adelmaier, Karl Heinz Burmeister : Work-transparent history and social studies. Edition Vorarlberg. 4th grade secondary school and general secondary school. From the end of the First World War to the present. ÖBV, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-215-07845-7 .
  • with others :? A turning point? The end of the war in Vorarlberg, southern Germany and eastern Switzerland in 1945. Symposium of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv at the end of the war in 1945 in the Lake Constance area, April 28, 1995, Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt, Dornbirn 1995, ISBN 3-85430-233-9 .
  • From Jahn to Hitler: Politics and organizational history of German gymnastics in Vorarlberg 1847 - 1938, with a foreword by Hannes Strohmeyer (= research on the history of Vorarlberg , NF, Volume 1). UVK, Universitätsverlag Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-87940-543-3 (dissertation University Innsbruck 1994, 311 pages).
  • German national politics and physical culture at Lake Constance. The Vorarlberg example (= writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 116, year 1998, OCLC 891750033 , pp. 137–151; digitized ).
  • with Werner Matt: kiss black, red and gold banners. The years 1848/49 as a turning point in the Lake Constance area. Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 1999, ISBN 3-87940-643-X .
  • Mass of Trash or Veins of Gold? An Investigative Report on the Relationship Between Oral History and Archives. Roderer, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3-89783-103-1 .
  • with Franz Mathis: Vorarlberg. Between Fußach and Flint, Alemannicism and cosmopolitanism. Series of publications of the research institute for political-historical studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek 6/4, Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-98701-2 .
  • Wood shavings. State election campaigns, parties and politicians in Vorarlberg from 1945 to 1969 (= series of publications by the Rheticus Society , Volume 43), Rheticus, Feldkirch 2004, ISBN 3-900866-79-1 .
  • with Claudio Ambrosi: Sport und Faschismen / Sport e Fascismi (= History and Region / Storia e Regione , Volume 1 ISSN  1121-0303 ), StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2004, OCLC 122932845 ( German and Italian ).
  • with Walter Schuster: Denazification in a regional comparison. Archive of the City of Linz, Linz 2004, ISBN 3-900388-55-5 .
  • with others: regional stories - national stories. Festschrift for Gerhard Wanner on his 65th birthday (= series of publications by the Rheticus Society , Volume 44), Rheticus, Feldkirch 2004, ISBN 3-900866-83-X .
  • with archives and museums. Approaches to two cultural producers. Lectures of the 16th Vorarlberger Archivtag 2006, small publications of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 2, Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, Bregenz 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502171-4-8 .
  • From Silbertal to Sobibor . About Josef Vallaster and National Socialism in the Montafon (= series of publications by the Rheticus Society , Volume 48), Rheticus, Feldkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-902601-07-0 .
  • with Kurt Bereuter, Andreas Hammerer: National Socialism in the Bregenzerwald . With special consideration of Nazi <euthanasia> in the Bregenzerwald , Kulturforum Bregenzerwald, Alberschwende 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502633-0-5 .

Editor of sources on the history of Vorarlberg

  • Nazi rule in the country. The years 1938 to 1945 in the self-portrayals of the Vorarlberg communities in the Bregenz district . Sources on the history of Vorarlberg 1, Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-89783-054-X .
  • National Socialism and the end of the war in 1945 in the Vorarlberg communities in the Bludenz district . Sources on the history of Vorarlberg 2, Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-211-9 .
  • National Socialism - Democratic Reconstruction. Situation and mood reports from the Vorarlberg communities in the Feldkirch district in 1945. Sources on the history of Vorarlberg 3, Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-270-4 .
  • Liberation and Restoration. The minutes of the Vorarlberg regional committee from 1945. Sources on the history of Vorarlberg 6, Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-89783-480-4 .

literature

  • Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria , Volume 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , pp. 441f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OTS.AT Habilitation in History for Wolfgang Weber, state press office Vorarlberg, November 8, 2005
  2. ↑ University of Innsbruck: PD Dr. Mag. Wolfgang Weber, MA MAS , accessed on November 18, 2010
  3. ↑ Kulturforum Bregenzerwald Book presentation: National Socialism in the Bregenzerwald in Egg, Feldkirch, Bregenz, October 17, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn