Gerhard A. Ritter#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 618 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Gerhard A. Ritter passed away June 20, 2015.
Positions Held
- 1962 - 1964 Professor of Political Science at the Free University Berlin
- 1964 - 1974 Professor of New History at the University of Münster
- 1974 - 1994 Professor of Recent History at the Ludwig Maximilians University München (LMU)
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical social history of the German Republic after 1945
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College Oxford
- Honorary degree of University of Bielefeld
- 1999 Honorary degree of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2008 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
