Irene Messinger
Tracing Persecuted Social Workers During the 1930s in Vienna
Číslo: 4/2021
Periodikum: Sociální práce
Klíčová slova: social work history, Austria, biography research, gender, exile, contemporary history
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Anotace:
OBJECTIVES: Building on a socio-historical overview of Austria in the 1930s with a special
focus on Vienna, this article shows that the history of Austria’s displaced female welfare workers
has still to be told. Their life stories can be reconstructed by means of biographical research.
The article focuses on how to find their traces in the archives and gives insights in an ongoing
research project about the topic. THEORETICAL BASE: This section is a review of scholarly
works on the Austrian welfare system from the emergence of the Austrian Republic in 1918
to the NS regime lasting until 1945. METHODS: Since no collective sources on persecuted
welfare workers can be found in archives, the lives of individual persons must be traced through
biographical research. OUTCOMES: Archival sources will be discussed in detail, and it will be
shown which archives in Vienna and what other networks can be used accordingly. SOCIAL
WORK IMPLICATIONS: The two massive ruptures in the history of social work during the
Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime (1934–1938) and the Nazi regime (1938–1945) have not yet been
comprehensively discussed, especially under the aspect of persecution and expulsion of female
welfare workers. The findings can contribute to adding a missing piece of Austrian professional
social work history.
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focus on Vienna, this article shows that the history of Austria’s displaced female welfare workers
has still to be told. Their life stories can be reconstructed by means of biographical research.
The article focuses on how to find their traces in the archives and gives insights in an ongoing
research project about the topic. THEORETICAL BASE: This section is a review of scholarly
works on the Austrian welfare system from the emergence of the Austrian Republic in 1918
to the NS regime lasting until 1945. METHODS: Since no collective sources on persecuted
welfare workers can be found in archives, the lives of individual persons must be traced through
biographical research. OUTCOMES: Archival sources will be discussed in detail, and it will be
shown which archives in Vienna and what other networks can be used accordingly. SOCIAL
WORK IMPLICATIONS: The two massive ruptures in the history of social work during the
Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime (1934–1938) and the Nazi regime (1938–1945) have not yet been
comprehensively discussed, especially under the aspect of persecution and expulsion of female
welfare workers. The findings can contribute to adding a missing piece of Austrian professional
social work history.