Gerhard L. Weinberg

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Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928 in Hanover ) is an American historian. His work deals with German foreign policy in the 20th century, National Socialism and the Second World War .

Life

In 1938 Weinberg's family emigrated to Great Britain due to the National Socialist persecution of Jews and in 1941 to the United States in the state of New York . After serving in the US Army during the occupation of Japan from 1946 to 1947, he completed his academic training. In 1948 he received the NY State College for Teachers to Bachelor . His studies took him to the University of Chicago , where he received his Masters in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1951. received.

1951 to 1954 Weinberg was a research fellow at Columbia University . He also taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Kentucky (1957–1959) and the University of Michigan (1959–1974). From 1956 Weinberg in Alexandria, Virginia, coordinated the microfilm documentation of German files before they were returned to West Germany. From 1974 to 1996 he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Weinberg discovered Hitler's so-called " Second Book ", which he published in 1961.

Awards

Weinberg's publications have won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize, the Western Association for German Studies' Halverson Prize, the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History (1995), and the Herbert Hoover Book Prize (1994). In 1996 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2009 he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing . In 2011 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . In 2012 he received the Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Military History ( ABC-CLIO ). From 1996 to 1998 Weinberg was President of the German Studies Association in the USA.

Fonts (selection)

  • Germany and the Soviet Union 1939-1941. EJ Brill, Leiden 1954.
  • Hitler's second book. A document from 1928 . Introduced and commented by Gerhard L. Weinberg, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1961.
  • The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany. 2 vols., University of Chicago Press, 1970/80. New edition in one volume under the title: Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933–1939. The Road to World War II. Enigma Books, New York 2005, ISBN 978-1-929631-91-9 .
  • (Ed.), Transformation of a Continent. Europe in the Twentieth Century. Burgess Pub. Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 1975, ISBN 0-8087-2332-4 .
  • World in the balance: Behind the scenes of World War II. University Press of New England, Hanover (New Hampshire) 1981, ISBN 0-87451-216-6 .
  • A world at arms. A global history of WWII. Cambridge University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 9780521443173 . In German as:
    • A world in arms. The global history of World War II . Translation by Helmut Dierlamm, Karlheinz Dürr and Klaus Fritz , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1995. In the original English version
  • Germany, Hitler, and World War II. Essays in Modern German and World History. Cambridge University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-521-47407-8 .
  • Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders. Cambridge University Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-521-85254-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard L. Weinberg: Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly Relations, in: Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (Eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , 97-101.
  2. ↑ Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 , 450–451.
personal data
SURNAME Weinberg, Gerhard L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinberg, Gerhard Ludwig; Weinberg, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover