CV
- Born in Stuttgart in 1936
- 1955 Bookseller following Abitur (high school diploma)
- 1956-1961 Certified teaching degree (History, English, and German) in Tübingen, (London), Berlin (FU), Heidelberg
- Since 1961 at the Department of History in Tübingen
- PhD 1963
- Habilitation (post-doc degree) 1971
- Professor 1974
- Retired since 2002
