Heinrich August Winkler

Heinrich August Winkler (born 19 December 1938 in Königsberg) is a German historian.

Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler (2014)
Born (1938-12-19) 19 December 1938
Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationHistorian

With his mother he joined the westward flight in 1944, after which he grew up in southern Germany, attending a Gymnasium in Ulm. He then studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at Münster, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University of Freiburg. Since 1991 he has held a chair of modern history at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1962, and has ties to numerous prominent politicians within that party, including former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is the author of a book detailing a comprehensive political history of the Weimar Republic, among others.

During the Historikerstreit, Winkler was a leading critic of Ernst Nolte.[1]

Selected bibliography
  • "From Social Protectionism to National Socialism: The German Small-Business Movement in Comparative Perspective," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, No. 1, March 1976
  • In Search of Germany (with Michael Mertes and Steven Muller). Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick and London 1996, ISBN 1-56000-880-6
  • Germany: The Long Road West. Vol. 1: 1789-1933. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-926597-8
  • Germany: The Long Road West vol. 2: 1933-1990. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-926598-5

Notes
  1. Winkler, Heinrich August “Eternally in the Shadow of Hitler?” pages 171-176 from Forever In The Shadow of Hitler? edited by Ernst Piper, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1993 page 173
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