Alf Lüdtke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alf Lüdtke

German historian

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1943

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Jan-2019

Profession: university teacher, historian of the modern age, social historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Alf Lüdtke (18 October 1943, Dresden – 29 January 2019) (also Alf Luedtke) was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte in German).
He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.