Walter Ziegler


Walter Ziegler is a German historian

Life

Born in Liberec, Ziegler has been lining in Bavaria since 1946. He attended Gymnasium in Munich. After the Abitur he studied for the in Freising and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He passed the first Staatsexamen in 1964, the second in 1966. After his doctorate and his habilitation with Andreas Kraus with the work Studien zum Staatshaushalt Bayerns in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts at the University of Regensburg in 1980 he received a professorship for modern history and regional history as well as didactics of history at the University of Würzburg. From 1989 until his retirement in 2002, Ziegler taught Bavarian regional history with a special focus on modern times at the of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich as successor to Andreas Kraus. Since 1994 Ziegler has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the. In 2001 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.
The focus of his academic work is the history of the state, especially of Bavaria and southern Germany, in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Another focus of his research is Reformation and Counter-Reformation. He has also published several works on the contemporary history of Bavaria in the 20th century, especially on the period of National Socialism and displacement.

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