Lorenz Peiffer
Author · 9 books
Lorenz Peiffer (born 1947) was a professor of sports pedagogy and sports science at the University of Hanover. His research focused in particular on sport under National Socialism and German-Jewish sport in the 1920s and 1930s. In 2014, he received the Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann Medal from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History for the publication »Juden im Sport während des Nationalsozialismus. Ein historisches Handbuch für Niedersachsen und Bremen« (2012), which he co-edited with Henry Wahlig.