Christoph Dieckmann (historian)


Christoph Dieckmann is a German historian and author.

Life

Dieckmann studied history, sociology and economics at University of Göttingen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Hamburg. He received his doctorate in 2003 at University of Freiburg under the supervision of Ulrich Herbert, his dissertation focused on the German WWII policy in Lithuanian, and his subsequent research and work has focused on the same topic.
Dieckmann taught modern history at Keele University from 2005 to 2014. He subsequently worked on the Yiddish Historiography on the Russian Civil War at the Fritz Bauer Institut. From 2017 he is at University of Bern.
In 2012, he was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his two volume work Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944.

Books