Michael Gehler

Michael Gehler graduated from high school in Neustadt near Coburg/Germany, and studied history and German literature at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck/Austria.

In 1999 Gehler habilitated at the University of Innsbruck and worked there until 2006 as an associate professor at the Institute for Contemporary History.

In 2013 he accepted a call to head the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research (INZ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna while maintaining his professorship at the University of Hildesheim.

Gehler has a wide-ranging scientific network that goes far beyond that of colleagues in professors and includes both young researchers and living personalities of contemporary history (civil servants, diplomats, politicians).

Gehler is considered a committed mediator of scientific content in public and teaching.