Heinrich August Winkler
Winkler in 2014
Born	(1938-12-19)19 December 1938 (age 86) Königsberg,East Prussia,Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Historian

Heinrich August Winkler (born 19 December 1938 inKönigsberg) is a German historian.

With his mother he joined thewestward flight in 1944, after which he grew up in southern Germany, attending a Gymnasium inUlm. He then studiedhistory,political science,philosophy andpublic law atMünster,Heidelberg andTübingen. In 1970 he became professor at theFree University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at theUniversity of Freiburg. Since 1991 he has held a chair of modern history at theHumboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1962, and has ties to numerous prominent politicians within that party, including former ChancellorGerhard Schröder. He is the author of a book detailing a comprehensive political history of theWeimar Republic, among others.

During theHistorikerstreit, Winkler was a leading critic ofErnst Nolte.^[1]

• "From Social Protectionism to National Socialism: The German Small-Business Movement in Comparative Perspective",The Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, No. 1, March 1976
• In Search of Germany (withMichael Mertes andSteven Muller). New Brunswick and London: Transaction, 1996,ISBN 1-56000-880-6
• Germany: The Long Road West. Vol. 1: 1789–1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006,ISBN 978-0-19-926597-8
• Germany: The Long Road West. Vol. 2: 1933–1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007,ISBN 978-0-19-926598-5
• Weimar 1918–1933: Die Geschichte der ersten Deutschen Demokratie. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993,ISBN 978-3-406-72692-7

• Berger, Stefan. "Rising Like a Phoenix… The Renaissance of National History Writing in Germany and Britain Since the 1980s." In:Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, Chris (2015).Nationalizing the past : historians as nation builders in modern Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 426–451.ISBN 978-0-230-23792-6.OCLC 646112085.online

• Prof. Dr. Heinrich August Winkler Institute für Geschichtswissenschaften. Western history staffcurricula vitae. Retrieved July 27, 2011(in German)

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• Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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