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Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
Bailer-Galanda receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize in 2016
Born (1952-03-05) March 5, 1952 (age 71)
Vienna
NationalityAustrian
Occupation(s)Social scientist, historian

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (born 5 March 1952, Vienna) is an Austrian social scientist and historian. She was the director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and deputy chairwoman of the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria [de]. Bailer-Galanda is an honorary professor of contemporary history at the University of Vienna.[1]

Bailer-Galanda's research focuses on German resistance to Nazism, the Holocaust and its denial, and right-wing extremism in Austria [de].

Early life

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda was born on 5 March 1952 in Vienna, Austria.

Education

Bailer-Galanda enrolled in the Vereinsgasse Federal High School [de] in 1970 and studied sociology and economics. She graduated four years later. From 1990 to 1992, she underwent doctoral studies under Erika Weinzierl's direction at the University of Vienna.[2]

Career

Bailer-Galanda became an assistant researcher at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance 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 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 Wolfgang Neugebauer [de] as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by Gerhard Baumgartner [de].

Awards

Citations

  1. ^ "Bailer Brigitte" (in German). University of Vienna. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Für Österreich war Wiedergutmachung kein Thema" (in German). University of Vienna. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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