Dr. Stefan Hördler
Short Biography
- Research Interest
- Industrial history and deindustrialization
- History of transformation
- History of work and work environments
- Comparative German-American history in the 20th century
- Cultural and Media History, Visual History
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Academic Positions
- since 2021: Visiting Professor within the School of Arts & Humanities at the University of Huddersfield
- since 2019: Lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Göttingen (Habilitation project: "A History of Decline? The Steel Industries in West Germany and the United States since the 1970s")
- 2015 — 2019: Director, Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
- 2015 — 2017: Curator of the international traveling exhibition "Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus" (Forced labor in National Socialism) (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
- 2012 — 2015: Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC (Habilitation project: "A History of Decline? The Steel Industries in West Germany and the United States since the 1970s")
- 2011-2012: Research associate (Postdoc), Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2006 — 2009: Research associate, Department of History/Chair of Contemporary History, Humboldt University Berlin
- Education
- 2012: PhD, Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2006 — 2011: Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2006: MA, Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin
- 1998 — 2006: Humboldt University Berlin, Modern History and Philosophy
- Scholarships, Awards, Fellowships
- 2013: First Tiburtius Prize, Prize of the Berlin Universities
- 2013: Herbert Wehner Grant, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- 2009: Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, USA
- 2007 — 2011: Ph.D. scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- 2000 — 2006: Graduate scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Other professional functions
- Academic Advisory Board, EHRI Holocaust Photographs Expert Group
- Academic Advisory Board, Deutsches Museum, Munich
- Academic Advisory Board, Holocaust Exhibition & Learning Centre, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Academic Advisory Board, Mémorial de l'internement et de la déportation, Compiègne, France
- Academic Advisory Board (Chair), City of Nordhausen, research project on the town’s history in 1945
- Academic Advisory Board (Vice Chair), Köpenicker Blutwoche Memorial, Berlin
- Academic Advisory Board, Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial, Frankenberg/Sa.
- Academic Advisory Board, Gardelegen Memorial
- Consultant to the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg) and public prosecutor's offices