Peter Scherer (historian)
Peter Scherer (* 1943 ) is a German Marxist historian.
Scherer studied social and economic history in Tübingen and Heidelberg . His Heidelberg dissertation on Weingarten Monastery in the 18th century, which was accepted in 1968, appeared in print a year later. After completing his legal clerkship and attending the Marburg archive school , he succeeded Albert Deibele as the first academic city archivist in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1970 to 1973 .
In 1973 he joined the education system / educational policy department of the IG Metall board , where he was responsible for the history of the labor movement, among other things. From 1987 to 2004 he was head of the central library of IG Metall.
Selected works
In addition to numerous essays in "Socialism", "Marxist sheets" and "Z":
- Imperial monastery and church in Weingarten in the 18th century. A contribution to the economic history of the south-west German manorial rule . Stuttgart 1969
- (Editor) Gmünder Schmuckhandwerk until the beginning of the nineteenth century . Schwäbisch Gmünd 1971
- (Editor) Schwäbisch Gmünd. Contributions to the city's past and present . Stuttgart 1971
- (Editor, together with Peter Schaaf) Documents on the history of the labor movement in Württemberg and Baden 1848-1949 . Stuttgart 1984
- The fight against the socialist law . Kösching 1978 online .
- Free hand in the east. Origins and Perspectives of the Second World War . Kösching 1989
- Calling things by their name. On the topicality of the Erfurt program . Koesching 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Seidel : Gmünder local history literature yesterday - today - tomorrow . In: Einhorn-Jahrbuch Schwäbisch Gmünd 1981, pp. 186–197, here p. 192.
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| SURNAME | Scherer, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Marxist historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |