Jürgen Zimmerer
Jürgen Zimmerer | |
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Portrait of Zimmerer, 2019 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Occupation | Historian |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
| Thesis | Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner. Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Reinhard and Christoph Marx |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Postcolonialism |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | Genocide studies |
| Notable ideas | Windhoek to Auschwitz thesis |
| Website | Publications by Jürgen Zimmerer at ResearchGate |
Jürgen Zimmerer (born 1965) is a German historian and Africanist. Since 2010 he has been Professor of African History at the University of Hamburg. He is known for his work on colonial history, genocide studies, and the relationship between German colonialism and National Socialism.