Dietrich Aigner

Dietrich Aigner (born April 12, 1930 in Stuttgart ; † May 29, 1994 ) was a German historian and librarian.

Life

Aigner made a name for himself primarily through his publications on German-British relations in the run-up to the Second World War and in particular through his controversial Churchill biography "Fame and Legend". From 1958 to 1963 he studied history, English, Romance studies and political science in Tübingen and Durham. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1963 the first state examination for teaching at higher schools followed. In 1967 he did his doctorate under Josef Engel . From 1966 he worked in the academic library service, most recently as department head in the Mannheim University Library .

Fonts (selection)

• The struggle for England. German-British Relations, Public Opinion 1933-1939, Tragedy of Two Nations , 2 vols., Munich: Bechtle, 1969.
• The indexing of “harmful and undesirable literature” in the Third Reich . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 11, 1971, pp. 933-1034.
• Winston Churchill. Fame and Legend , Göttingen 1974.

literature

• Alexandra Habermann, Peter Kittel: Lexicon of German scientific librarians. The academic librarians of the Federal Republic of Germany (1981–2002) and the German Democratic Republic (1948–1990) . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 3-465-03343-4 .