Volker Dahm
Volker Dahm ( April 7, 1944 - April 19, 2020 ) was a German German scholar and historian .
Born in the Bavarian Oberland and raised in Munich, Dahm studied modern German literary history, medieval studies and journalism at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . With his dissertation on The Jewish Book in the Third Reich and the Schocken Verlag (see Salman Schocken ) he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.
For several years he worked as an editor and advertising manager.
When the files project of the NSDAP party chancellery began at the Institute for Contemporary History in the early 1980s , Dahm acquired extensive knowledge of the archives and sources of National Socialism . From 1996 to 1999 he was the Obersalzberg project manager and from 1999 to 2009 scientific director of the Obersalzberg documentation .
Volker Dahm died on April 19, 2020 after a long and serious illness.
Web links
- Appreciation on the occasion of Volker Dahm's departure from the Institute for Contemporary History
- Short CV and important publications in the Documentation Obersalzberg
- Lecture at the Topography of Terror Symposium NS-Large Buildings as Legacies
- Literature by and about Volker Dahm in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Volker Dahm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ In memory. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ In memory of Dr. Volker Dahm. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahm, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 2020 |