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Ludwig Eiber

b. 1945

German historian of modern age

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Born 1945. Ludwig Eiber is a German historian of Modern Age, university teacher and historian.

Ludwig Eiber (born 1945) is a German historian and author. He is widely acknowledged as an expert on the post-World War II Allied war crimes trials of the Nazis. In particular, he has expertise in the Dachau trials.

Biography

Eiber studied History at LMU Munich and received his doctorate there in 1978 with his dissertation on the experience of slave workers under the Nazi regime. In particular, he focused on the experience of textile and porcelain workers in the northeastern Upper Franconia, 1933–1939. Then he was at the Institute of Contemporary History.

From 1980 to 1988, he headed the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. He then did research until 1991 at the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th century, on the Hamburg workers' resistance (1933-1939) and in connection to Leibniz University Hannover and the emigration of Social Democrats to Great Britain (1940-1945).

From 1996, he was a research associate at the House of Bavarian History and completed his Habilitation in 1997 at the University of Hamburg: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Hansestadt Hamburg in den Jahren 1929–1939: Werftarbeiter, Hafenarbeiter und Seeleute; KonformitĂ€t, Opposition, Widerstand. From 1998 to 2003, he was project leader in the revision of the exhibition at the Dachau Concentration Camp. In addition, he served as Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Philology and History from 2000 at the University of Augsburg. In 2004, he took over the management of the House of Bavarian History project.

From 2005, he prepared the national exhibition in Zwiesel for 2007. He retired in 2010,

Works Eiber has published the following:

Monographs

Ich wußte es wird schlimm". Die Verfolgung der Sinti und Roma in MĂŒnchen 1933–1945, Buchendorfer Verlag, MĂŒnchen 1993. Die Sozialdemokratie in der Emigration. Die "Union deutscher sozialistischer Organisationen in Großbritannien" 1941–46 und ihre Mitglieder. Protokolle, ErklĂ€rungen, Materialien, Dietz, Bonn 1997. Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Hansestadt Hamburg in den Jahren 1929 bis 1939. Werftarbeiter, Hafenarbeiter und Seeleute: KonformitĂ€t, Opposition, Widerstand, Lang, Frankfurt/M. u.a. 2000.

Edited works

Acht Stunden sind kein Tag. Geschichte der Gewerkschaften in Bayern. Katalog zur Wanderausstellung 1997/98 des Hauses der Bayerischen Geschichte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund - Landesbezirk Bayern, Augsburg 1997 (zusammen mit Rainhard Riepertinger und Evamaria Brockhoff). RĂ€ume – Medien – PĂ€dagogik. Kolloquium zur Neugestaltung der KZ-GedenkstĂ€tte Dachau, Augsburg 1999 (zusammen mit Stanislav ZĂĄmečnĂ­k und Evamaria Brockhoff).

Articles and collections KZ-Außenlager in MĂŒnchen, in: Didaktische Arbeit in KZ-GedenkstĂ€tten. Erfahrungen und Perspektiven, hrsg. v. d. Bayer. Landeszentrale f. polit. Bildungsarbeit, MĂŒnchen 1993, S. 43–57 (in ergĂ€nzter Form auch in: Dachauer Hefte 16 (1996) H. 12, S. 58–80). Unter FĂŒhrung des NSDAP-Gauleiters. Die Hamburger Staatspolizei (1933–1937) in: Gerhard Paul, Michael Mallmann (Hrsg.), Die Gestapo - Mythos und RealitĂ€t, Darmstadt 1995, S. 101–117. Liebe und Tod. Frauen und Deserteure, in: Marlis Buchholz/Claus FĂŒllberg-Stolberg/Hans-Dieter Schmid (Hrsg.), Nationalsozialismus und Region, Bielefeld 1996, S. 241–257. Verfolgung (KZ, Repressionsapparat), in: Wolfgang Benz/Hermann Graml/Hermann Weiß (Hrsg.), Lexikon des Nationalsozialismus, Stuttgart 1997

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1945
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Historian of Modern Age, university teacher, historian
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University of Augsburg

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German historian of modern age

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