Walter Ziegler (born 16 July 1937) is a German historian

Life

Born in

Liberec Liberec (; german: Reichenberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants and it is the fifth-largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preser ...

, Ziegler has been lining in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

since 1946. He attended Gymnasium in Munich. After the

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

he studied for the in

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Is ...

and at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. He passed the first

Staatsexamen The ("state examination" or "exam by state"; pl.: ''Staatsexamina'') is a German government licensing examination that future physicians, dentists, teachers, pharmacists, food chemists, psychotherapists and jurists (i.e., lawyers, judges, public ...

in 1964, the second in 1966. After his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

and his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

with Andreas Kraus with the work ''Studien zum Staatshaushalt Bayerns in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts'' at the

University of Regensburg The University of Regensburg (german: link=no, Universität Regensburg) is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on 18 ...

in 1980, he received a professorship for modern history and regional history as well as didactics of history at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

. From 1989 until his retirement in 2002, Ziegler taught Bavarian regional history with a special focus on modern times at the of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich as successor to Andreas Kraus. Since 1994, Ziegler has been a full member of the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...

and the . In 2001 he was awarded the

Bavarian Order of Merit The Bavarian Order of Merit (german: Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria ...

. The focus of his academic work is the history of the State, especially of Bavaria and southern Germany, in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Another focus of his research is

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

and

Counter-Reformation The Counter-Reformation (), also called the Catholic Reformation () or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation. It began with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) a ...

. He has also published several works on the contemporary history of Bavaria in the 20th century, especially on the period of National Socialism and displacement.

Writings

Monographs * ''Hitler und Bayern. Beobachtungen zu ihrem Verhältnis''. (''Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte.'' Jg. 2004, H. 4). Beck, Munich 2004, . * ''Studien zum Staatshaushalt Bayerns in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Die regulären Kammereinkünfte des Herzogtums Niederbayern 1450–1500.'' Beck, Munich 1981, (in the meantime: Regensburg, Universität, Habilitations-Schrift, 1976). Editions * with

Anton Schindling Anton Schindling (20 January 1947 in Frankfurt - 4 January 2020 in Tübingen) was a German historian. He held chairs at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (1985–1987), the University of Osnabrück (1987–1995) and the University of ...

: ''Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung''. 7 volumes. Aschendorff, Münster 1989–1997; ** Vol. 1: ''Der Südosten'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 49). 1989, ; ** Vol. 2: ''Der Nordosten'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 50). 1990, ; ** Vol. 3: ''Der Nordwesten'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 51). 1991, ; ** Vol. 4: ''Mittleres Deutschland'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 52). 1992, ; ** Vol. 5: ''Der Südwesten'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 53). 1993, ; ** Vol. 6: ''Nachträge'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 56). 1996, ; ** Vol. 7: ''Bilanz – Forschungsperspektiven – Register'' (''Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung.'' 57). 1997, . * with Hermann Rumschötel: ''Staat und Gaue in der NS-Zeit. Bayern 1933–1945''.(''. Beiheft.'' Reihe B, 21). Beck, Munich 2004, . * ''Die Vertriebenen vor der Vertreibung. Die Heimatländer der deutschen Vertriebenen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.''''Die Vertriebenen vor der Vertreibung. Die Heimatländer der deutschen Vertriebenen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert''
on Google Books 2 vol. Iudicium, Munich 1999, .

References

External links

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Walter Ziegler on Webarchiv

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