Johannes Glack, BA MA

Doctoral researcher (prae doc) with the ERC research group GLORE – “Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)”

Current research project
Vulnerable groups of Displaced Persons: resettling the physically or mentally disabled DPs in Europe and abroad

Contact
E-Mail: johannes.glack@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41246


Curriculum Vitae und Publications

Johannes Glack is a contemporary historian with a focus on the history of National-Socialism and the first post-war decade in Austria. Since 2023 he is a PhD student at the Institute of Contemporary History within the ERC project "GLORE- Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)" on the topic "Vulnerable groups of Displaced Persons: resettling the physically or mentally disabled DPs in Europe and abroad".
 
He completed the master's program "Contemporary History and Media" at the University of Vienna in 2022. His master's thesis is entitled "Between Endkampf and Werwolf: The Perpetrators of the Final Phase Crimes in April 1945 in the District of Scheibbs. A micro-historical analysis of court records" and was awarded the Wilhelm-Deist Prize for Military History Research 2022. Before joining the Institute of Contemporary History, he worked as a research assistant for the Yad Vashem archive and in various national and international projects in the field of remembrance and commemoration work.