Peter Geiger

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Peter Geiger (* 1942 ) is a Liechtenstein historian and former research officer at the Liechtenstein Institute for the field of history. The main focus of his work is on the topic of Liechtenstein during the 1930s and during the Second World War .

Life

Geiger studied history, German and Romance languages at the University of Zurich , and one year each in Vienna and Seattle . In 1970 he received his doctorate in Zurich and in the same year worked as a teacher at the Cantonal School of St. Gallen .

Geiger started working at the Liechtenstein Institute in 1987. He was also a private lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Friborg and a lecturer at the University of Education in the Canton of St. Gallen .

From 2001 to 2005/2006 Geiger was President of the Independent Historians Commission Liechtenstein Second World War, an international commission that scientifically dealt with questions about the role of Liechtenstein in the Nazi era and during the Second World War. The resulting results were published in a final report in 2005. An English translation was published in 2009.

Since 2010 he has been the Liechtenstein co-chair of the Liechtenstein-Czech Historical Commission.

In 2017 Geiger was honored with a commemorative publication jointly published by the Liechtenstein Institute and the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein .

Geiger lives in Schaan .

Publications (selection)

  • together with Manfred Schlapp: Russians in Liechtenstein - escape and internment of Holmston's Wehrmacht army 1945–1948 . Chronos-Verlag , Zurich 1996.
  • Crisis time. Liechtenstein in the 1930s, 1928-1939 . 2 volumes, Verlag des Historisches Verein für das Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 1997.
  • Dan Michman ; Peter Geiger; Arthur Brunhart , David Banker ; Carlo Moss; Erika Weinzierl : Questions about Liechtenstein in the Nazi era and in World War II . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005. Translated in 2009: Questions concerning Liechtenstein during the National Socialist period and the Second World War .
  • Wartime. Liechtenstein 1939 to 1945 . 2 volumes, Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Swiss Monthly Bullets for Politics, Economy, Culture, Volume 79, Issue 11 (2007)
  2. Werner Matt, Wolfgang Weber: " Kissing Black-Red-Gold'ne Banners " (1999)
  3. Liechtenstein-Czech Republic: Commission of Historians appointed  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 27, 2010, website of the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.regierung.li  
  4. Liechtenstein Institute and Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein (ed.): Researching history - conveying history: Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Peter Geiger and Rupert Quaderer . Publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society, Bendern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7211-1097-5 , p. 575 .