Georg Gerson Iggers (December 7, 1926 – November 26, 2017) was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history.
Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in 1938, only few weeks before the Kristallnacht.
[2] Iggers belonged to the young émigrés from the Third Reich who later in life, as academic scholars in the United States, had a decisive impact on reviewing critically the history of Germany.
[3] In 1957, Iggers became the first White brother initiated into Phi Beta Sigma, a historically Black fraternity.
[4] He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Buffalo and 2007 recipient of the First Class Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.