Ludwig Eiber

Ludwig Eiber (* 1945 ) is a German historian and author.

Life

Eiber studied Historical Sciences at the University of Munich and received his doctorate there in 1978 to Dr. phil. with the dissertation Workers under National Socialist rule: Textile and porcelain workers in north-eastern Upper Franconia; 1933-1939 . He then worked at the Institute for Contemporary History .

From 1980 to 1988 he headed the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial . He then carried out research at the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century (1933–1939) and subsequently at the University of Hanover on the emigration of social democrats to Great Britain (1940–1945). From 1996 he was a research assistant at the House of Bavarian History and completed his habilitation in 1997 at the University of Hamburg in the subject of contemporary history with the text Workers and Workers' Movement in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1929 to 1939: Shipyard workers, dock workers and seamen; Conformity, opposition, resistance . From 1998 to 2003 he was project manager for the revision of the exhibition at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial . In addition, from 2000 he worked as a private lecturer for modern and contemporary history at the Philological-Historical Faculty of the University of Augsburg . In 2004 he took over the management of the contemporary witness project in the House of Bavarian History.

From 2005 he prepared the state exhibition Bavaria-Böhmen , which was shown in Zwiesel in 2007 .

Monographs

"I knew it was going to be bad". The persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Munich 1933–1945 , Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1993; ISBN 3-927984-16-7 .
Social democracy in emigration. The “Union of German Socialist Organizations in Great Britain” 1941–1946 and its members. Protocols, explanations, materials , Dietz, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8012-4084-3 .
Workers and labor movement in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg from 1929 to 1939. Shipyard workers, dock workers and seamen: conformity, opposition, resistance , Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-631-31727-1 .

Editorships

A cht hours are not a day. History of the trade unions in Bavaria . Catalog for the touring exhibition 1997/98 of the House of Bavarian History in cooperation with the German Trade Union Confederation - Land District Bavaria, Augsburg 1997 (together with Rainhard Riepertinger and Evamaria Brockhoff).
Spaces - media - pedagogy. Colloquium on the redesign of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial , Augsburg 1999 (together with Stanislav Zámečník and Evamaria Brockhoff).

Journal articles and contributions to compilations

Concentration camp satellite camp in Munich , in: Didactic work in concentration camp memorials. Experiences and Perspectives , ed. vd Bayer. Landeszentrale f. polit. Bildungsarbeit, Munich 1993, pp. 43–57 (in supplemented form also in: Dachauer Hefte 16 (1996) H. 12, pp. 58–80).
Under the leadership of the NSDAP Gauleiter. The Hamburg State Police (1933–1937) in: Gerhard Paul, Michael Mallmann (eds.), The Gestapo - Myth and Reality, Darmstadt 1995, pp. 101–117.
Love and death. Women and deserters , in: Marlis Buchholz / Claus Füllberg-Stolberg / Hans-Dieter Schmid (eds.), National Socialism and Region , Bielefeld 1996, pp. 241-257.
Persecution (concentration camp, repressive apparatus) , in: Wolfgang Benz / Hermann Graml / Hermann Weiß (eds.), Lexicon of National Socialism , Stuttgart 1997

Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachau Trials - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945–1948. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0167-2 . (Appendix: Authors, p. 313)
Gerhard Paul and Klaus-Michael Mallmann (eds.): The Gestapo. Myth and Reality , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-89678-482-X . (Appendix: The Authors, p. 583)