Prof. Dr. Dieter Dowe

• Born in 1943
• Until 2008 director of the "Center for Historic Research" of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation at Bonn
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Reichs President Friedrich Ebert Memorial Foundation at Heidelberg
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the "Archives of the Parties and Mass Organizations of GDR at the Federal Archives" (SAPMO Foundation) at Berlin
• Member of the Advisory Council of the "Federal Foundation for Research on the SED Dictatorship" at Berlin
• Since 1970 member of the editorial staff of the "Archiv für Sozialgeschichte" (Archive for Social History)
• Edtior of the "Reprints für Sozialgeschichte " (Reprints of Social History), of the publication series "Politik und Gesellschaftsgeschichte" (Politics and Social History, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Schneider), of the "Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Sozialgeschichte Braunschweig-Bonn" (Publications of the Institute for Social History at Brunswick-Bonn), and of the series "Gesprächskreis Geschichte" (Forum History).
• Since 1996 member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation

Selected publications:

• Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, sozialistischen und kommunistischen Bewegungen von den Anfängen bis 1863 (3. Aufl. 1983)
• Programmatische Dokumente der deutschen Sozialdemokratie (edit. together with Kurt Klotzbach)

Decorations:

• 1991 Victor Adler Award (awarded by the Austrian goverment for distinctive research on the history of the worker`s movement)