Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna

The Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna is a scientific institution for the study of contemporary history. The headquarters of the Institute is in the campus of the University of Vienna (the former Old AKH) in Alsergrund ( 9th district ). It has about 30 scientific members (as of 2006), about half of them on the staff of the University of Vienna and the other half Professors who are associated with the Institute.

The Institute is run as a member of the association of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

History

On 3 June 1966, built at the suggestion of Professor College of Philosophy Faculty of the University of Vienna by the Federal Ministry for Education, the Institute of Contemporary History.

To the Board of Directors and the first professor of the newly founded Institute, which was initially housed in the Rotenhausgasse 6 in the 9th district, the historian Ludwig Jedlicka, a co-founder of DOeW and since 1961 head of the " Austrian Institute for Contemporary History ", was appointed. Successor of Jedlicka was Erika Weinzierl, which opened up the anti-Semitism, exile and emigration research. She retired in 1995. As director of the institute in 1990 was followed by Anton Staudinger, 1994 Gerhard Jagschitz, 2001 Friedrich Stadler, 2008 Oliver Rath piston and 2012 Johanna Gehmacher. Successor by Erika Weinzierl 1997 Gerhard Botz, 2004 were Frank Stern and Carola Sachse professor, Sybille Steinbacher was appointed in 2010.