Peter Huber (historian)

Peter Huber (born July 26, 1954 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian and private lecturer in modern general and Swiss history at the University of Basel .

Life

Peter Huber studied history , Romance studies and philosophy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1986. From 1989 he worked on several research projects, in particular on the fate of the Swiss in the Soviet Union (1991–1993), the apparatus of the Communist International (1994–1996) and on the Spanish Civil War (1997–1999). 1999–2003 he headed the research project “Biographical Handbook of the Comintern” at the University of Hanover . Since 1998 he has worked as a private lecturer in modern general history and Swiss history at the University of Basel.

Fonts (selection)

• Communists and Social Democrats in Switzerland 1918–1935. The dispute over the united front in the Zurich and Basel workers. Limmat, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85791-104-2 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1986).
• Stalin's shadow in Switzerland. Swiss communists in Moscow. Defenders and prisoners of the Comintern. Chronos, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-905311-29-1 .
• (Ed. with Josef Lang ) Solidarity with the Swiss Revolution. The German "Address Movement" 1847/48. Chronos, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905312-99-9 .
• (with Ralph Hug ) The Swiss volunteers in Spain. Biographical manual. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85869-390-7 .
• Vanishing point Foreign Legion. Swiss in the Indochina and Algerian wars, 1945–1962. Chronos, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0340-1352-9 .

Web links

• Peter Huber on the website of the Department of History at the University of Basel
• Peter Huber: Chances of survival at the executive suites of the Comintern ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Abstract and the author Peter Huber on the website of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship