Institute for Economic and Social History









DR. STEFAN HÖRDLER






RESEARCH INTERESTS



  • 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









Habilitation projeCt


"A History of Decline? The Steel Industries in West Germany and the United States since the 1970s"









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



  • 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



  • 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

    Ph.D., 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













Academic Advisory Board Positions



  • EHRI Holocaust Photographs Expert Group

  • Deutsches Museum Munich (Historic Aviation)

  • Holocaust Exhibition & Learning Centre, University of Huddersfield, UK

  • Mémorial de l'internement et de la déportation, Compiègne, Frankreich

  • (Chair), City of Nordhausen, research project on the town’s history in 1945

  • (Vice Chair), Köpenicker Blutwoche Memorial, Berlin

  • Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial, Frankenberg/Sa.

  • Gardelegen Memorial (Project completed)

  • 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









Dr. Hördler with glasses, shirt and blue sweater


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Contact


Dr. Stefan Hördler
Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen

+49-(0)551-39-24418stefan.hoerdler@uni-goettingen.de
Room MZG 6.156
Consultation hours by appointment by email.