Holger M. Meding

Holger M. Meding (* 1962 in Essen-Werden ) is a German historian.

Career

From 1982 to 1988 Holger M. Meding studied Medieval and Modern History, Romance Studies and Middle Latin Philology at the University of Cologne and the Universidad de Sevilla . In 1991 he received his doctorate and was then appointed research assistant in the Iberian and Latin American Department of the History Department at the University of Cologne. In 1992 he was awarded the German Ibero America Foundation (Hamburg). Between 1997 and 1999 Meding took over the leadership of the Central European Section in the Argentine government's investigative commission to investigate Nazi activities in Argentina, CEANA (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en la Argentina). In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne and in 2009 he was appointed associate professor. Meding has been Deputy Managing Director of the Historical Institute since 2014.

His main research interests are German-Latin American relations, secret services in Latin America, the history of migration, and state and nation building. As part of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service, he has been working on the activities of the Federal Intelligence Service in Latin America since 2013.

Fonts (selection)

• Panama. State and Nation in Transition, 1903–1941 , (Latin American Research, Vol. 30), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002 (habilitation thesis)
• La ruta de los nazis en tiempos de Perón , Buenos Aires 1999
• "The way". A German émigré magazine in Buenos Aires, 1947–1957 , Berlin 1997

Web links

• Page from Prof. Dr. Holger M. Meding at the University of Cologne