Ulrich Herbert (born 24 September 1951) is a German
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
and a specialist in the
Nazi era and
German history
The Germani tribes i.e. Germanic tribes are now considered to be related to the Jastorf culture before expanding and interacting with the other peoples.
The concept of a region for Germanic tribes is traced to time of Julius Caesar, a Roman gen ...
during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
.
He was a professor at the
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...
(
Emeritus since fall 2019). In 1999 Herbert received the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in modern and contemporary history. He edited ''European history in the 20th Century'', a series of ten surveys by German scholars.
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1951 births
Living people
20th-century German historians
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
21st-century German historians
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
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