Erwin Schmidl
Erwin A. Schmidl was born in Vienna in 1956, and studied history and anthropology at the University in Vienna. He holds a doctorate (Vienna 1981) and a Habilitation (University of Innsbruck 2001). Previously he has held different positions in the Austrian Ministry of Defence and currently head of the contemporary history department at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the Austrian National Defence Academy in Vienna. He is married and lives in Vienna and Graz.