Detlev Peukert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Detlev Peukert

German historian

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1950

Place of Birth: Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 17-May-1990

Profession: historian, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Detlev Peukert (September 20, 1950 in Gütersloh – May 17, 1990 in Hamburg) was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar Republic.
Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute for the History of the Nazi Period.
Peukert was a member of the German Communist Party until 1978, when he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
A politically engaged historian, Peukert was known for his unconventional take on modern German history, and in an obituary, the British historian Richard Bessel wrote that it was a major loss that Peukert had died at the age of 39 as a result of AIDS.