Historian Lutz Klinkhammer discussing the challenge and impact of comparing Nazi-occupied countries

Born in Trier (Trier) in 1960, university studies in history, art history and political science at the University of Trier, degree 'Magister Artium' in 1985, PhD at the University of Trier in 1991. Scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Rome in 1987/1988, member of the organising committee for the centenary preparations of the German Historical Institute in 1988, curator of the exhibition catalogue on the history of the Institute. Researcher at the University of Trier 1988-1991, at the University of Cologne 1992-1999. Scholarship holder at the Historisches Kolleg Foundation in Munich in the academic year 1997/98, Feodor-Lynen scholarship holder at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (research stay at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne) in 1998/99. Since April 1999 researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome with responsibility for the field of Contemporary History. In 2016 qualification as a lecturer in modern and contemporary history and member of the teaching staff of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Since March 2017 Deputy Director.

Awarded 'Acqui Storia' in 1994 for the book 'The German Occupation in Italy 1943-1945'. In 1994 activity as historical expert of the Koblenz Court of Appeal at the trial against W. Lehnigk-Emden for the massacre of Italian civilians in Caiazzo. Consultant to the 'Parliamentary bicameral Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the concealment of files relating to Nazi-Fascist crimes' (2004-2006) and to the 'Commission for the recovery of the bibliographic heritage of the Jewish Community of Rome, plundered in 1943' (2005-2007). Member of the Italian-German Historical Commission established by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 2009 to 2012.

Credits

Klinkhammer, L. (1994). Zwischen Bündnis und Besatzung: Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die Republik von Salò 1943-1945. de Gruyter.

Gentile, C., (Italy), I. L., Klinkhammer, L., & Prauser, S. (2003). I nazisti: i rapporti tra Italia e Germania nelle fotografie dell’Istituto Luce. Editori Riuniti.

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