Volker Ullrich | |
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 Volker Ullrich (left), 2008 | |
| Born | 21 June 1943 Celle, Lower Saxony, Nazi Germany |
| Occupation | Historian · journalist · author |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
Volker Ullrich (born 21 June 1943) is a German historian and journalist.
Volker Ullrich was born in Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany. [1] He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Egmont Zechlin Professor. He graduated in 1975 after a dissertation on the Hamburg labour movement of the early 20th century, after which he worked as a school teacher in Hamburg. He was, for a time, a lecturer in politics at the Lüneburg University, and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-Century Social History. [1] In 1990 Ullrich became the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . [2]
Ullrich has published articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century history. In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners that provoked fresh debate among historians. [3] [4]
In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism, [2] and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena. [1]
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