Karl Dietrich Bracher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karl Dietrich Bracher

German historian and political scientist

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1922

Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Sep-2016

Profession: historian, political scientist, university teacher, non-fiction writer, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Karl Dietrich Bracher

  • Karl Dietrich Bracher (13 March 1922 – 19 September 2016) was a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
  • Born in Stuttgart, Bracher was awarded a Ph.D.
  • in the classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950.
  • During World War II, he served in the Wehrmacht and was captured by the Americans while serving in Tunisia in 1943.
  • He was then held as a POW in Camp Concordia, Kansas.
  • Bracher taught at the Free University of Berlin from 1950 to 1958 and at the University of Bonn since 1959.
  • In 1951 Bracher married Dorothee Schleicher, the niece of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  • They had two children.

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