Harald Welzer (born 27 July 1958,

Wedemark Wedemark ( Eastphalian: ''Wiemark'') is a municipality in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wedemark is a historical landscape description for the area and is situated approximately 20 km north of Hanover. It ranks third on a ...

) is a German social psychologist. He studied sociology, psychology and literature at the

University of Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

. He has been a professor of transformation design at the

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since 2012. His research is focused on memory, violence and the social impacts of climate change. His books have been translated into 15 languages. Welzer was one of the first signers of the Open Letter to the German Position on Russo-Ukraining War in April 2022, who demanded not to support Ukraine with heavy arms in order to "prevent a third world war".

Books in English

*2012 ''Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century'', Polity Press *2012 ''Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying. The Secret World War II Transcripts of German POWs'' (with

Sönke Neitzel Sönke Neitzel (born 26 June 1968) is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War. He is editor of the journal ''German History in the 20th Century'' and has written several books such as ''Soldaten: On Fighting, Ki ...

)

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