Helmut Heiber

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Helmut Heiber (born February 22, 1924 in Leipzig , † November 1, 2003 in Munich ) was a German historian . He worked for many years at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

Life

Heiber was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a youth in 1942 and was captured as a lieutenant in Yugoslavia. Returned to Germany in 1949, he studied history, journalism and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . In 1953 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on "The Rhetoric of the Paulskirche".

From 1954 to 1989, Heiber worked at the Institute for Contemporary History, which was founded in 1949 . There he initially had the task of organizing the documents collected for the Nuremberg Trials (1946–1949) and making them usable for scientific research. Since the mid-1970s, Heiber was responsible for the reconstruction of the files in the party chancellery of the NSDAP , which had largely been destroyed at the end of the war.

Together with Martin Broszat he edited the dtv world history of the twentieth century , for which authors such as Hans Herzfeld , Ernst Nolte , Hermann Graml , Erich Angermann , Karl-Heinz Ruffmann and Wilfried Loth could be won.

Works

As an author

  • Adolf Hitler , Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1960;
  • Joseph Goebbels , Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1962;
  • The catacomb is closed , Scherz Verlag, Munich 1966;
  • The Republic of Weimar , Dtv, Munich 1966, 22nd edition, 1996, ISBN 978-3423040037
  • Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany . DVA, Stuttgart 1966. Published in the series Sources and Representations for Contemporary History of the Institute for Contemporary History .
  • University under the swastika , part 1: The professor in the Third Reich: Pictures from the academic province , Saur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-598-22629-2 ; Part 2: The capitulation of the high schools: the year 1933 and its topics : in two volumes., Volume 1, Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22630-6 ; Volume 2, Saur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-22631-4

As editor

  • Hitler's Conversations : The Minutes of His Military Conferences 1942–1945 , Stuttgart 1962.
  • Reichsführer: Letters to and from Himmler , Stuttgart 1968.
  • Dtv world history of the 20th century (in 14 vol.). With Martin Broszat, Munich 1968.
  • Facsimile cross-section through the Black Corps. Scherz, Bern / Munich 1985 (together with Hildegard von Kotze).
  • Goebbels speeches 1932-1945. Droste 2 vols., Düsseldorf 1971/72 (several reprints).
  • The normal madness under the swastika. Trivial and strange things from the files of the Third Reich , Munich 1996.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. DNB
personal data
SURNAME Heiber, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and long-time employee of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2003
Place of death Munich