Ludolf Herbst

Ludolf Herbst (born March 21, 1943 in Wülfinghausen near Springe ) is a German historian . His research focus is the German history of the 20th century .

Life

Herbst studied history, German literature , philosophy and political science at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . With a thesis on the persecution of the First International by the great powers in the Empire time he became in 1973 a doctorate . He completed his habilitation with a study that was published in 1982 under the title The Total War and the Order of the Economy . His academic teachers in Göttingen were Reinhard Wittram , Rudolf von Thadden and Rudolf Vierhaus .

After a short teaching position in Göttingen, Ludolf Herbst became deputy director of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History in 1983 . From 1991 to 2008 he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

• Total war and economic order. The war economy in the field of tension between politics, ideology and propaganda 1939-1945 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-06119-X .
• Option for the west. From the Marshall Plan to the Franco-German Treaty , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-423-04527-2 .
• National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-11285-6 .
• Edited with Rudolf Vierhaus , Bruno Jahn (co-workers): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002 , KG Saur Verlag, Munich,
  • Vol. 1: A – M , 2002, ISBN 978-3-598-23782-9 and ISBN 3-598-23782-0 ; Preview over google books .
  • Vol. 2: N-Z; Appendix , 2003, ISBN 978-3-598-23782-9 and ISBN 3-598-23782-0 .
  • Vol. 3: Timetable - Directories - Committees , 2003, ISBN 3-598-23783-9 .
• Complexity and chaos. Basics of a theory of history , Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-49455-2 .
• Edited with Thomas Weihe: The Commerzbank and the Jews 1933–1945 , Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51873-7 .
• Hitler's charisma. The invention of a German Messiah , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-033186-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludolf Herbst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ludolf Herbst at perlentaucher.de
• Humboldt University of Berlin. Institute for History: Prof. Dr. Ludolf Herbst