Mag. Dr. Herbert Posch
Senior Scientist
Historian and museologist, senior scientist at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna
"Forum "Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien" (since its foundation in 2006)
Collection officer at the Department of Contemporary History
- Editor "Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938"
- Editor "650 plus – History of the University of Vienna"
Research projects on:
- History of the University of Vienna in the 19th and 20th centuries (students / teachers / disciplines / revocation and restoration of academic degrees and honours)
- Monuments / culture of remembrance and commemoration
- History and politics of science
- Emigration and biographical research
Projects (selection)
- 2009-ongoing | "Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938"
- 2022/23 | Problematic and debatable honours of the University of Vienna
- 2021/22 | When names shine (Iris Andraschek)
- 2019/20 | Honorary citizens and senators of the University of Vienna in the 20th/21st century: gender relations, merits and problems
- 2012-2015 Coordination of the historical research contemporary history of the University of Vienna as part of the 650th anniversary of the University of
- 2014-2020 Concert series "LaMusa_concert on campus" at the Marpe Lanefesch
- 2015 | Exhibition "Threatened Intelligentsia – From Polarisation and Intimidation to Expulsion and Annihilation in the Nazi Regime"
- 2015 | Exhibition "From General Hospital to University Campus" (Vom AKH zum Uni-Campus)
- 2014 | Exhibition ExLibris
- 2011-14 | uni:visuals | studentische Blicke auf universitäre Räume
- 2010 | exhibition "Art & Contemporary History | University & Commemoration" (Kunst & Zeitgeschichte | Erinnerung – Gedenken – Universität)