Exhibition: “Ludwig Maximilian University in the Postwar Period”

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When Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München resumed teaching in the spring of 1946 after the end of the war, the university administration, professors, and students faced enormous challenges: many university buildings were severely damaged, and university members, like the entire population of Munich, suffered from a lack of housing and food. It was imperative to confront the Nazi past, although some positions lacked the critical reflection that was actually necessary.

Reconstruction, overcoming the shortage situation, denazification, and remembrance work are the four major themes of the exhibition on LMU Munich in the postwar period, which was developed by LMU students and pupils from the Lise Meitner Gymnasium Unterhaching under the guidance of the Chair of Didactics of History and Public History and the University Archives.

The exhibition is part of the program “1945 | 2025 – Zero Hour? How We Became What We Are,” organized by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

Information about the program “1945 | 2025 – Zero Hour? How We Became What We Are”

Date and location of the exhibition

• Duration of the exhibition: April 29, 2025 – July 11, 2025
• Location: University Library, exhibition and lending hall (ground floor), Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München

Contact

Daniela Andre, OStRin
History Department of LMU Munich
Didactics of History and Public History
E-mail: Daniela.Andre@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Dr. Susanne Wanninger
University Library of LMU Munich
Special Collections Department
University Archive Division
E-mail: susanne.wanninger@ub.uni-muenchen.de