TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obermair,Robert
TI  - Oswald Menghin: Science and Politics in the Age of Extremes 
SN  - 9783111053202
AV  - GN21.M4 O24 2024
U1  - 930.1092 23/eng/20240227
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - München, Wien : 
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 
KW  - Archaeologists
KW  - Austria
KW  - Biography
KW  - Nationalsozialismus
KW  - Tätergeschichte
KW  - Zeitgeschichte
KW  - Contemporary history
KW  - National Socialism
KW  - perpetrators
N1  - Dissertation; Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Methodological and Theoretical Reflections --; 3 Early Years --; 4 Studying in Vienna --; 5 On the Way to an Academic Career --; 6 The Years of the First Austrian Republic --; 7 The Golden Age of the Catholic Nationals: the Austrofascist Years --; 8 The “Annexation” and Menghin’s Rise to Even Higher Merits --; 9 The National Socialist Years – a Compliant Scientist at the Peak of his Career --; 10 Denazification, Imprisonment and Flight --; 11 A Second Career --; 12 Coming to Terms with the Past? --; 13 Menghin’s Last Years and his Legacy --; 14 Résumé: An Adaptable Scientist with a Political Agenda --; 15 Annex --; 16 Sources and Literature --; 17 Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The fundamental idea of this book is to show – based on the example of Oswald Menghin, Minister of Education of the National Socialist Austrian “Anschluss”-government, and the networks surrounding him – how science and politics were interwoven in Austria in the first half of the 20th century and how the ideas and networks created in that milieu outlasted the alleged caesurae of this period and found continuation in post-war South America. As Menghin traversed an astonishing number of political upheavals and changes – time after time in exalted positions –, his biography may be considered as paradigmatic for the Age of Extremes. The following aspects form the core interest of this book: (1) Menghin’s position in the political and scientific field, as well as the interconnection between these spheres. (2) The transnational entanglement between the two central areas of Menghin’s geographic spheres of action. (3) Continuities and changes both in Menghin’s biography and in a broader political and scientific context in Austria and Argentina. (4) Menghin’s scope of action and the extent of his responsibility for crucial and often dire developments in all these facets
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111057309
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111057309
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111057309/original
ER  -