Klaus Gestwa

Klaus Gestwa (born 1963) is a German historian.

[3] In 1996 he received his doctorate under Hans Lemberg and Dietrich Beyrau with a thesis on proto-industrialization in rural Russia.

[5] Klaus Gestwa has been a full professor at the University of Tübingen since the summer semester of 2009.

Since 2013 he has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Research Centre for Eastern Europe[6] at the University of Bremen and the Tübingen Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, among others.

[7] In addition, he is co-editor of several series and journals and since 2013 also a liaison lecturer of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.