Education and Work Experience
- University of Vienna, History, Anthropology and History of Arts; 1981 Dr. phil. sub auspiciis praesidentis, 1993 Postgraduate Course on European Studies at the Europa-Akademie Vienna, 2001 Habilitation (Innsbruck)
- 1981 consultant at the Military History Department of the Austrian Army Museum in Vienna
- 1991/92 assigned to the UN Department of Foreign Affairs, 1994 UN Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA), 1994-95 Head of the publishing department at the Austrian Army Museum, 1995/96 Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., 1996-2001 Office for Military Studies of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, finally Head of the Research Department
- 2001 Univ.-Doz. for Modern and Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- 2001 Head, Unit for Contemporary History at the Institute of Strategy and Security Policy of the National Defence Academy, Vienna; 2007-2008 and since 2012 provisional Head of Institute
Fields of Research and Teaching
Military and political history, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries; development of international peace operations; Austrian and European security policy, notably after 1945
Professional Functions
- President, Austrian Commission for Military History
- President, Austrian Society for Army Historical Research
- President, Austrian-South African Club
- Secretary General, International Commission for Military History
- Secretary General, Austrian Historians’ Association
Honours, Awards & Fellowships
- 1980: Fritz-Eckart-Stipend, Alma Mater Rudolfina Association of the University of Vienna
- 1981: Promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae
- 1984: Ludwig-Jedlicka Memorial Award
- 1995/96: J. Randolph Senior Fellowship, U.S. Institute of Peace
Selected Publications
- Blaue Helme, Rotes Kreuz: Das österreichische UN-Sanitätskontingent im Kongo, 1960 bis 1963 (= Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 13) Innsbruck–Wien 1995; the revised 2nd edition was published with the same title as vol. 1 of the series Peacekeeping-Studien, Innsbruck–Wien–Bozen, 2010
- with Wolfgang Etschmann und Tamara Scheer, An der Grenze: Der erste Einrückungstermin des Bundesheeres und der Einsatz während der Ungarnkrise 1956, Graz 2006
- with Walter Blasi und Felix Schneider (Hrsg.), with participation of Edda Engelke, B-Gendarmerie, Waffenlager und Nachrichtendienste: Der militärische Weg zum Staatsvertrag, Wien–Köln–Weimar 2005
- with participation of Edda Engelke (Hrsg.), Die Ungarnkrise 1956 und Österreich, Wien–Köln–Weimar 2003
- The Warsaw Pact and Austria: Threats and Threat Perceptions, in: Arnold Suppan – Wolfgang Mueller (eds.), “Peaceful Coexistence” or “Iron Curtain”: Austria, Neutrality, and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Détente, 1955 – 1989 (Europa Orientalis 7) Wien 2009, 203-217
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