Hans Mommsen

1930 - 2015

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country of citizenship: Germany

languages spoken, written or signed: German

educated at: University of Tübingen, University of Marburg, Heidelberg University

occupation: historian of Modern Age, university teacher, historian

award received: Fellow of the British Academy, Carl von Ossietzky Prize

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Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Source: Wikipedia (en)