Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

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Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
Bailer-Galanda receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize in 2016
Born	(1952-03-05) March 5, 1952 (age 69) Vienna
Nationality	Austria
Occupation	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  [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  [de].

Early life[]

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

Education[]

Bailer-Galanda enrolled in the  [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  [de] as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by  [de].

Awards[]

• 1992: Käthe Leichter Prize for the study of women's history in Austria
• 1996:  [de] for antifascist journalism in Austria
• 1999:  [de] from the  [de]
• 2013: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (speech by  [de])
• 2015: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien

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