Dr. Stefan Hördler

Short Biography

Research Interest

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

For more information please visit my website http://www.stefanhoerdler.de/