Brigitte Hamann (née Deitert; 26 July 1940 – 4 October 2016) was a German-Austrian[1] author and historian based in Vienna.

In 1965, she married a historian Günther Hamann (1924–1994),[2] moved to Vienna and obtained Austrian citizenship in addition to her German.

Brigitte Hamann worked with her husband at the University of Vienna and in 1978 obtained a doctor's degree on the basis of a thesis on the life of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria.

[citation needed] Hamann's 1996 book Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship examined how societal attitudes at the time shaped Hitler's anti-Semitic views during his time in Vienna between 1908 and 1913, and the effects of his inordinate fear of both infection and women.

[citation needed] In 2005, Hamann released Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth, a biography of Winifred Wagner, the British-born woman who became a founding member of the Nazi Party and a close friend of Hitler.