Hon.Prof. Dr. Lorenz Mikoletzky

Born 1945, Vienna, Austria

1964-1969 Studied history and classical archaeology at Vienna University

1969 Graduated as Dr. phil., joined Austrian State Archives

1 February 1991 Appointed head of General Administrative Archive

1 July 1991 Promoted to Hofrat (Chief Archivist)

1 July 1994 Appointed Director-General of Austrian State Archives and Chairman of Central Archives Office

13 January 1993 Appointed Honorary Professor of Modern Austrian History, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Vienna University

International Activities (inter alia):

Member, Executive Committee of the International Council on Archives, for Europe and North America

Austrian representative in CIBAL (Comité et Centre International d' information sur les sources de l'histoire balkanique et méditerranéenne).

Work in academic commissions and organizations:

Honorary member of the Historical Commission of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Honorary member of the Association of Romanian Archivists

Executive Vice-President of the Union of Austrian Historians and Historical Associations

Member of the Board of the Commission for Austrian Modern History Member of the Board of Curators of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance

Member of the Board of the Austro-Polish Society

Member of the Letters and Humanities Committee of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO

Selected publications

• "The Independence of Economics and Politics. An Example from the Austro-Russian Alliance during the Napeolonic Wars", in: The Journal of European History, 2/2, 1973, pp. 355-362;
• "Le recensement des archives des firmes et des entreprises en Autriche: état actuel" [The Present State of the Inventorization of Business Archives in Austria], in: Bulletin du Comité des Archives d'Entreprises 3/1980, pp. 21-26;
• "Josef Bürckels Dienststelle und die Steiermark 1938/39. Ausgewählte Materialien aus dem Amt des Reichskommissars für die Wiedervereinigung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich" [Josef Bürckel's Office and Styria, 1938-39. Selected Materials from the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich] in: Siedlung, Macht und Wirtschaft [Settlement, Power and the Economy], 1981, pp. 281-291;
• "Bibliographie zum 12. Februar 1934. Eine Auswahl" [Selected Bibliography on 12 February 1934] in: Erwachsenenbildung in Österreich [Adult Education in Austria] 4B/1983, pp. 11-13;
• "Überblick über das österreichische Archivwesen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg" [Survey of Austrian Archival Work since World War II], in: Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, LV/1-4/1984, pp. 73-83;
• "Österreichische Parlaments- und Parteiarchive" [Austrian Parliamentary and Party Archives], in: Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, LX/3-4/1989, pp. 77-81;
• "Das Österreichische Staatsarchiv und das Problem der Massenaktenbewältigung" [The Austrian State Archives and the Problem of Handling Large Quantities of Files], in: Scrinium 44/45, 1991, pp. 206-210;
• "Austrian Archival Work - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", in: Bulgarische Archivzeitschrift 1-2/1995, pp. 77-87 (in Bulgarian);
• "Die österreichischen Archive und Europa - Das Österreichische Staatsarchiv" [Austria's Archives and Europe - The Austrian State Archives] in: Scrinium 49/1995, pp. 451-455;
• Archives of the Holocaust. An International Collection of Selected Documents, Vol. 21: Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv, Archiv der Republik [General Administrative Archive and Archive of the Republic], Vienna, New York and London 1995.