Dr. habil. Edith Raim (†)

Edith Raim (1965-2025) began researching the history of the Kaufering satellite camp complex of Dachau concentration camp as part of a German history competition for pupils at secondary school. From then on, the topic of Nazi history and its traces in the post-war period never left her.

From 1984, she studied history and German language and literature in Munich and Princeton (USA) and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.

In 1991, she received her doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the Dachau subcamp complexes in Kaufering and Mühldorf.

Between 1991 and 1995, Edith Raim was a lecturer at the German Academic Exchange Service in Durham, Great Britain. This was followed by positions at the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn and, from 1999, as a research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich.

In 2012, Raim completed his habilitation at the University of Augsburg with a thesis on “Justice between dictatorship and democracy: Reconstruction and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945-1949”.

In 2016/17, the historian was a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.

Edith Raim is a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the University of Augsburg. She has published extensively on the cultural, social and legal history of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship and the early post-war period.

Dr. Edith Raim passed away on 1 July 2025 in Landsberg am Lech after a serious illness.
Despite her health restrictions, she remained tirelessly committed to the end and shaped our work as scientific director with her great expertise, clear vision and human depth. We will miss her work and her personality – her legacy will remain.

Photo: Wolfgang Hauck