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Dr. Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE, born in Munich in 1924, is a historian and author best known for »From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918–33« (2nd edition, 1995) and »Bismarck. Eine politische Geschichte« (2nd edition, 2014), for his biographies of the British prime ministers Disraeli and Gladstone, and for »Democracy and Empire, 1865–1914« (1985). In 2003 he received the German Federal Order of Merit and in 2021 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. His autobiography »Erlebnis und Geschichte« was published in 2010. In 2012, he wrote, with Bertil Scali, a novelisation of his childhood experiences called »Hitler, mon voisin«, which has been translated into many other languages. With his wife Primrose (d.2012) he has two daughters, Antonia and Judith, and a son, Dr. Adrian Feuchtwanger.