Lothar Steinbach

Lothar Steinbach (* 1937 in Mannheim ) is a German historian and history educator .

Steinbach studied history, English and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, among others. After a short time as a teacher, he was appointed professor of history and didactics at the Heidelberg University of Education in 1973 . He taught there until 2001; today he lives in Potsdam.

His advocacy of more social history in history lessons was significant in terms of history . He also dealt with the didactic possibilities of oral history . He was one of the first jurors in the Federal President's history competition .

Fonts

• Didactics of Social History: A Case Study on Workers, Schools, etc. Social Democracy in Wilhelmine Germany . Klett, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-12-927050-7 .
• Mannheim. Social history of a city in life pictures . 1984.
• One people, one empire, one belief? Former National Socialists and contemporary witnesses report on their life in the Third Reich . Dietz, Bonn 1995.
• Before the west was. A German-German history dialogue . wjs, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937989-22-6 .

literature

• Uwe Uffelmann: History as a subject at the Heidelberg University of Education 1962-2004. In: Uwe Uffelmann, Manfred Seidenfuß (Hrsg.): Understanding and mediating. Armin Reese on her 65th birthday. Schulz-Kirchner, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-8248-0463-8 , p. 7 ff. ( Table of contents ; PDF file; 1.07 MB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Steinbach in the catalog of the German National Library