Ludwig Eiber


Ludwig Eiber is a German historian and author. He is widely acknowledged as an expert on the post-World War II Allied war crimes trials of the Nazis. In particular, he has expertise in the Dachau trials.

Biography

Eiber studied History at the University of Munich and received his doctorate there in 1978 with his dissertation on the experience of slave workers under the Nazi regime. In particular, he focused on the experience of textile and porcelain workers in the northeastern Upper Franconia, 1933-1939. Then he was at the Institute of Contemporary History.
From 1980 to 1988 he headed the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. He then did research until 1991 at the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th century, on the Hamburg workers' resistance and in connection to Leibniz University Hannover and the emigration of Social Democrats to Great Britain.
From 1996 he was a Research Associate at the House of Bavarian History and completed his Habilitation in 1997 at the University of Hamburg: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Hansestadt Hamburg in den Jahren 1929-1939: Werftarbeiter, Hafenarbeiter und Seeleute; Konformität, Opposition, Widerstand. From 1998 to 2003 he was project leader in the revision of the exhibition at the Dachau Concentration Camp. In addition, he served as Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Philology and History from 2000 at University of Augsburg. In 2004 he took over the management of the House of Bavarian History project.
From 2005, he prepared the national exhibition in Zwiesel for 2007. He retired in 2010, and resides in Giesing, a Munich suburb.

Works

Eiber has published the following:

Monographs