Dr. Hans Winterberg

Dr. Hans Winterberg (1930-2014) was a legal historian and photographer. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Legal History at the University of Frankfurt and joined Geothe-Institut in 1966. After completing a three-year assignment in Calcutta, he served as the director of the Geothe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Hyderabad from 1970 to 1975. He then headed the Geothe-Institutes in Turin, Boston and Lisbon as well as the Cultural Programme Department at the Institute’s headquarters in Munich. Throughout his career, and even after his retirement, he initiated and organized numerous conferences, publications and exhibitions on contemporary historical topics such as the history of labour in Europe, the corporative authoritarian state, Jewish exile in Portugal and the history of Sinti and Romani.