Andreas Kranebitter Becomes New Head of the Documentation Archive

APA, Der Standard, December 21, 2022

German original: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141998174/andreas-kranebitter-wird-neuer-leiter-des-dokumentationsarchivs

The sociologist and political scientist will take over the position on April 1, 2023. The previous head of the DÖW, Gerhard Baumgartner, is retiring.

Vienna - Andreas Kranebitter is to become the new director of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The sociologist and political scientist succeeds Gerhard Baumgartner, who is retiring. He has led the DÖW since 2014. Kranebitter will take over as director on April 1, 2023. He is currently conducting research in the USA and beat out 18 competitors in an international call for applications.

"The Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance is a unique institution in Austria that links the historical examination of National Socialism with social science research and documentation of current right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic tendencies. I am looking forward to taking over the management of this tradition-rich institution and will devote myself to this task with all my strength and staying power," he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the DÖW on Wednesday.

Kranebitter was born in Vienna in 1982. His final theses were awarded the Herbert Steiner Prize and the Irma Rosenberg Prize. As head of the research center at Mauthausen Concentration Camp, he was responsible for significant parts of the new exhibition at the memorial. Most recently, he served as head of the Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria at the University of Graz. Already in the past, he repeatedly worked together with the DÖW. (APA, 21.12.2022)