Tobias Neubauer
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Tobias Neubauer
About the person
Tobias Neubauer (born 1993) completed his Bachelor's degree in the subject of History at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg in December 2018. In spring 2022, he successfully completed his Master's degree in History at the University of Bamberg, specialising in Modern and Contemporary History, with a particular focus on the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Following the completion of his Master's thesis, which dealt with the acts of violence committed by Austro-Hungarian military personnel in Galicia and Bukovina during the First World War, he worked as a freelance research assistant at the Nuremberg Trials Memorial as part of the preparations for the temporary exhibition "Right-wing Terrorism: Conspiracy and Self-empowerment - 1945 to the Present". He is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Oldenburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr Malte Rolf and Priv.-Doz. Dr Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna). He has been a doctoral scholarship holder of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation since October 2022.
Dissertation project
War on the outside - war on the inside. Atrocities committed by Austro-Hungarian military actors against the civilian population during the First World War
The "Great War", which began in the summer of 1914, did not only take place between the armed forces and the armed combatants of the opposing warring parties: the violence in the First World War also spread to the civilian population. Atrocities against civilians were committed by various parties. From the summer of 1914, Austro-Hungarian military actors also waged a war that was not only directed against the foreign population but also against their own civilian population. Both outside and inside the Habsburg Empire, there were violent attacks by military personnel against civilians.
The aim of the dissertation project is to contribute to the reappraisal of these atrocities committed by Austro-Hungarian military actors by identifying the population groups affected and the factors that caused the acts of violence. Among other things, the question of the influence of factors that already existed before 1914 - such as existing problems in the area of the constitution and the rule of law or the fact that military actors had already declared certain population groups to be potential internal enemies in the run-up to the war - will be investigated. In addition, however, it is also important to identify factors that were added in connection with the processes of change in the summer of 1914 and as a result of the war and its course. The aim is also to identify their impact on the emergence of acts of violence. A comparison of different regional areas of the Habsburg Empire - including a comparison of the acts of violence that took place in those areas - offers the potential to answer the questions posed by the research project.
Overall, the dissertation project should not only advance the reappraisal of this chapter in the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, which has been forgotten for a long time, but also make a contribution to the history of violence during the First World War.