Ludwig Eiber (born 1945) is a German

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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

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at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

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.Wallstein Verlag GmbH
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Accessed 24 Sept 2015. 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

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and the emigration of

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(1940-1945). From 1996 he was a research associate at the House of Bavarian History and completed his

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in 1997 at the

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: ''Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Hansestadt Hamburg in den Jahren 1929–1939: Werftarbeiter, Hafenarbeiter und Seeleute; Konformität, Opposition, Widerstand.'' From 1998 to 2003 he was project leader in the revision of the exhibition at the

Dachau Concentration Camp Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ...

. In addition, he served as Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Philology and History from 2000 at

University of Augsburg The University of Augsburg () is a university located in the Universitätsviertel section of Augsburg, Germany. It was founded in 1970 and is organized in 8 Faculties. The University of Augsburg is a relatively young campus university with a ...

. In 2004 he took over the management of the House of Bavarian History project. From 2005, he prepared the national exhibition in

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for 2007. He retired in 2010, and resides in Giesing, a Munich suburb.

Works

Eiber has published the following:Universität Augsburg
Publications list of Ludwig Eiber
Accessed 23 September 2015.

Monographs

*''Ich wußte es wird schlimm". Die Verfolgung der Sinti und Roma in München 1933–1945,'' Buchendorfer Verlag, München 1993; . *''Die Sozialdemokratie in der Emigration.'' Die "Union deutscher sozialistischer Organisationen in Großbritannien" 1941–46 und ihre Mitglieder. Protokolle, Erklärungen, Materialien, Dietz, Bonn 1997, . *''Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Hansestadt Hamburg in den Jahren 1929 bis 1939.'' Werftarbeiter, Hafenarbeiter und Seeleute: Konformität, 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). *Räume – Medien – Pädagogik. Kolloquium zur Neugestaltung der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, Augsburg 1999 (zusammen mit Stanislav Zámečník und Evamaria Brockhoff).

Articles and collections

*KZ-Außenlager in München, in: Didaktische Arbeit in KZ-Gedenkstätten. Erfahrungen und Perspektiven, hrsg. v. d. Bayer. Landeszentrale f. polit. Bildungsarbeit, München 1993, S. 43–57 (in ergänzter Form auch in: Dachauer Hefte 16 (1996) H. 12, S. 58–80). *Unter Führung des NSDAP-Gauleiters. Die Hamburger Staatspolizei (1933–1937) in: Gerhard Paul, Michael Mallmann (Hrsg.), Die Gestapo - Mythos und Realität, Darmstadt 1995, S. 101–117. *Liebe und Tod. Frauen und Deserteure, in: Marlis Buchholz/Claus Füllberg-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

Citations

Sources

* Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (Hrsg.): ''Dachauer Prozesse – NS-Verbrechen vor amerikanischen Militärgerichten in Dachau 1945–1948.'' Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, . (Anhang: Autorinnen und Autoren, S. 313) *

Gerhard Paul Gerhard Paul (born 1951, in Biedenkopf) is a German historian and retired (2016) professor of the University of Flensburg.Klaus-Michael Mallmann Klaus-Michael Mallmann (born 3 November 1948, in Kaiserslautern) is a German historian at the University of Stuttgart. Scientific career Mallmann studied history, Sociology, Politics and German studies at the Saarland University. In 1979 he was ...

(Hrsg.): ''Die Gestapo. Mythos und Realität'', Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995, . (Anhang: Die Autoren, S. 583)

External links

* * Universität Augsburg
Publikationsliste von Ludwig Eiber

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