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Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator.
Hans Mommsen was a prominent scholar of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, who argued that Hitler was a weak dictator and the Final Solution was driven by his subordinates. He also investigated the role of Volkswagen in the Third Reich and the history of Germany's working class.
A tribute to the German historian Hans Mommsen, a prominent representative of the functionalist school in Holocaust research. The article reviews his main contributions to the study of Nazism, the Final Solution, and resistance to Nazism.
May 18, 2017 · When Hans Mommsen died on 5 November 2015, at the age of eighty-five, he left a huge legacy, having grappled with many of the most intractable issues of modern German history, in particular Nazism.
Nov 18, 2015 · Hans Mommsen, considered the leading German historian of the Third Reich, whose work encompassed the origins of the Holocaust as well as a widely publicized report documenting Volkswagen’s...
Nov 6, 2015 · Hans Mommsen, one of the best-known historians of Nazi Germany, died this week on his 85th birthday. Born into a family of historians, Mommsen made his name by challenging the idea that the...
Hans Mommsen is a historian best known for his essays. Most of them address the significant and controversial events of German history between 1918 and 1945. Published in various and scattered journals and collective works, Mommsen's pieces have characteris tically displayed a mastery of sources and literature combined
