Institute for Economic and Social History









PROF. DR. MANFRED GRIEGER






CURRENT RESEARCH



  • Essay: Company Hunts. On a Courtly Residue of Representation in the Trust Economy of Bourgeois Elites

  • Book Manuscript: "The City of the KdF Car near Fallersleben". A Model City of the "People's Community"?

  • Volkswagen in Brazil, 1950–1985









INTERESTS



  • National Socialism

  • Corporate History

  • Forced Labor

  • Environmental

  • History

  • Utility Industry

  • History of Mobility









CAREER PATH






  • 1998 – 2016

    Head of Historical Communications in Group Communications at Volkswagen AG



  • 1998

    Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden: Contributor to a research project on the history of Dresdner Bank AG



  • 1998

    Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden: Contributor to a research project on the history of Dresdner Bank AG



  • 1996

    PhD (Dr. phil.) in History at the Faculty of History, Ruhr University Bochum, dissertation on "The Volkswagen Factory and its Workers in the Third Reich, 1933–1948"



  • 1994 – 1996

    Employee at the Emschertal Museum, Herne



  • 1993

    Research Associate at the Working Group for Modern Social History, Heidelberg



  • 1987 – 1992

    Research Associate at the Chair of Modern History II, Ruhr University (Prof. Dr. Hans Mommsen): Involved in a research project on the history of the Volkswagen factory



  • 1980 – 1986

    Studied History, Eastern European History, Journalism, and Communication Studies at Ruhr University Bochum



  • 1987 – 1980

    Trained as a bookseller













MEMBERSHIPS



  • Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen

  • Working Group for Critical Business and Industrial History









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Contact


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

manfred.grieger@uni-goettingen.de
Office MZG 6.144
Consultation hours over Zoom and by arrangement.