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Gerhard Hirschfeld
Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 19 September 1946) is a German historian and author. He was Director (between 1989-2011) of the Stuttgart based Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte / Library of Contemporary History, and is Professor (since 1997) at the Institute of History of the University of Stuttgart. Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wuhan/China (since 2016).

Born in Plettenberg, Germany. Educated at Gymnasium Altena/Westfalia, Ruhr University Bochum, and the University of Cologne. He studied History, German Literature (Germanistik) and Political Science (Staatsexamen 1974). Lecturer at University College Dublin, 1974-1975. Ph.D. scholarship, 1976-1977: received Ph.D. from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 1981. Assistant to Professor Wolfgang Mommsen at Düsseldorf University, 1977-1978. Fellow with the German Historical Institute London, 1978-1989. Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham, Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University between 1982-1989.

Director of the Library of Contemporary History in Stuttgart, 1989-2011, and Professor at the Institute of History, University of Stuttgart (since 1997). Chairman of the German Committee for History of the Second World War, 1990-2000, and President of the International Committee for the Study of the Second World War, 2000-2010.

Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Netherlands, 1996-1997 and 2006-2007. Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (Science Committee of the Netherlands Institute of War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam), 2000-2015. Historical fields of interest (research, teaching and writing): History of the First and the Second World War, 20th Century History of the Netherlands, History of Emigration from Nazi-Germany after 1933. Written and edited more than 50 books and 100 articles. Co-edited the International Encyclopedia of the First World War (last German edition 2014). Lectured at numerous universities and conferences in Europe, USA, Canada, Israel, Australia, Japan and China.

Hirschfeld’s work on the First World War comprises inter alia the Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg (Encyclopedia of the First World War) jointly edited with Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz (German: Schöningh/UTB: 2004, revised and extended edition 2014), English edn Brill: 2012) and Die Deutschen an der Somme 1914-1918: Krieg, Besatzung, Verbrannte Erde (German edn Klartext: 2006, rev. edn 2016, Dutch edn: 2008, English edn: 2009). Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg, (S. Fischer: 2013). Germany, in: Blackwell Companions to World History, ed. by John Horne  (Blackwell-Wiley: 2010), pp. 432-446.

Hirschfeld’s work on the Second World War comprises inter alia his study Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration. The Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940-1945 (Berg Publishers / Berghahn Books: 1988, German edn: 1984, Dutch edn: 1991). Exile in Great Britain. Refugees from Hitler's Germany (Berg Publishers: 1984). The Policies of Genocide. Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany (Allen & Unwin: 1986). Collaboration in France. Politics and Culture during the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944 (Berg Publishers: 1989). (Jointly edited with Gustavo Corni) L'umanità offesa. Stermini e memoria nell'Europa del Novecento, (Il Mulino: 2003). La guerra contro gli slavi, in: Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria del xx secolo, vol. 1: La crisi dell' Europa e lo stermino degli ebrei, a cura di Marina Cattaruzza et al, Turin (UTET: 2005, pp. 787-809). (Jointly edited with Tobias Jersak) Karrieren im Nationalsozialismus. Funktionseliten zwischen Mitwirkung und Distanz (Campus: 2004). (Together with Irina Renz) “Vormittags die ersten Amerikaner”. Stimmen und Bilder vom Kriegsende 1945 (Klett-Cotta: 2005).