Wilfried Loth (born 29 August 1948) is a German historian and political scientist.
[1] From 1974 to 1984 he worked there as an assistant lecturer and in 1983 he obtained his habilitation in Modern history with a dissertation on Catholics in the German Empire: Political Catholicism in the Crisis of Wilhelminian Germany.
[1] From 1993 to 1997, Loth was President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) in Essen at the North Rhine-Westphalia Academic Centre.
[1] In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Babeș-Bolyai University in the Romanian town of Cluj-Napoca.
One of his controversial positions is that on the Stalin Note of 1952, which he regarded as more serious than the majority of historians.