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          Georg Iggers was a historian and social activist whose long career included teaching at Philander Smith College in the s....

          Born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany, Iggers emigrated to the United States in He received his bachelor's degree from the.

        1. I was born in Hamburg, Germany, on December 7, , brought up in a Jewish family and fled with my parents in October , a few weeks before.
        2. Georg Iggers was a historian and social activist whose long career included teaching at Philander Smith College in the s.
        3. ON November 26, , Georg Iggers passed away in a retirement home on the out- skirts of Buffalo, where he had taught for four decades at the State.
        4. Georg, as he liked to be addressed, was born Georg Gerson Igersheimer in the Eppendorf neighborhood of Hamburg on December 7, He always bemoaned the fact.

          5. Georg Iggers

          American historian (1926–2017)

          Georg Gerson Iggers

          Born(1926-12-07)December 7, 1926

          Hamburg, Germany

          DiedNovember 26, 2017(2017-11-26) (aged 90)

          Buffalo, New York, U.S.

          OccupationHistorian

          Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, 1926 – November 26, 2017) was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history.[1]

          Life and career

          Iggers was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926.

          Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in 1938, only few weeks before the Kristallnacht.[2] Iggers belonged to the young émigrés from the Third Reich who later in life, as academic scholars in the United States, had a decisive impact on reviewing critically the history of Germany.[3]

          In 1957, Iggers became the first White brother initiated into Phi Beta Sigma, a historically Black fraternity.

          He was visiting professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 1991.[4&