Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (born 5 March 1952,

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) is an Austrian social scientist and historian. She was the director of the

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from 1938 until 1945, exile, Nazi crimes, right-wing extremism after 1945, and victims' repara ...

and deputy chairwoman of the . Bailer-Galanda is an

honorary professor Honorary titles (professor, reader, lecturer) in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties. This practice primarily exists in the UK and Germany, as well as in m ...

of contemporary history at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

. Bailer-Galanda's research focuses on

German resistance to Nazism Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime engaged in active resistance, including assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler, attempts to remove Adolf Hitler from power by assassination or by overthro ...

, the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

and its denial, and .

Early life

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda was born on 5 March 1952 in

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Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

Education

Bailer-Galanda enrolled in the in 1970 and studied sociology and economics. She graduated four years later. From 1990 to 1992, she underwent doctoral studies under

Erika Weinzierl Erika Weinzierl (6 June 1925 – 28 October 2014) was an Austrian historian, gender researcher, and historian of Nazism. A member of the Austrian People's Party and the Curatorium of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, she was the second director ...

's direction at the

Career

Bailer-Galanda became an assistant researcher at the

in 1979. In 1994, she was made a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. There she completed a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 2003 with the thesis ''The Origin of Restitution Laws'' (''Die Entstehung der Rückstellungsgesetze''), for which she was named an honorary professor of contemporary history. The next year, Bailer-Galanda succeeded as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by .

Awards

* 1992:

Käthe Leichter Prize The Käthe Leichter Prize is the Austrian State Prize for women's research, gender studies and gender equality in the workplace. History The prize, founded in 1991, was created on the initiative of the historian Herbert Steiner, who was assiste ...

for the study of women's history in Austria * 1996: for antifascist journalism in Austria * 1999: from the * 2013:

Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (german: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria. It is divided into 15 classes and is the highest award in the A ...

(speech by ) * 2015:

Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal (until 2002 named Friedrich Torberg Medal) is an award given by the Vienna Israelite Community. It is awarded to personalities and initiatives campaigning against antisemitism, racism, and Nazism. Recipien ...

from the

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien The Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien or IKG) is the body that represents Vienna's Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish community. Today, the IKG has around 10 000 members. Throughout history, it has represented almost all ...

Citations

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