German Historical Institute London

17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
United Kingdom

Phone: Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050

URI: www.ghil.ac.uk

 

Team

 
 

Directors

 
 

Christina von Hodenberg

Director

+44 020 7309 2023

c.hodenberg@ghil.ac.uk

Michael Schaich

Deputy Director

+44 020 7309 2014

m.schaich@ghil.ac.uk

Paul Assies

Head of Administration

+44 020 7309 2029

p.assies@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Former Directors

Andreas Gestrich 2006 – 2018
Hagen Schulze 2000 – 2006
Peter Wende 1994 – 2000
Adolf M. Birke 1985 – 1994
Wolfgang J. Mommsen 1977 – 1985
Paul Kluke 1975 – 1977
 
 

Senior Fellows

 
 

Markus Mößlang

Senior Fellow

+44 020 7309 2030

m.moesslang@ghil.ac.uk

Indra Sengupta

Senior Fellow

+44 020 7309 2034

i.sengupta@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Research Fellows

 
 

Stephan Bruhn

Early Medieval History

+44 020 7309 2015

s.bruhn@ghil.ac.uk

Mirjam Brusius

Colonial and Global History

+44 020 7309 2028

m.brusius@ghil.ac.uk

Mirjam Hähnle

Early Modern History

+44 020 7309 2040

m.haehnle@ghil.ac.uk

Mallika Leuzinger

Colonial and Global History

+44 020 7309 2017

m.leuzinger@ghil.ac.uk

Ole Münch

Modern History

+44 020 7309 2018

o.muench@ghil.ac.uk

Pascale Siegrist

Modern History

+44 020 7039 2016

p.siegrist@ghil.ac.uk

Clemens Villinger

Modern History

+44 020 7039 2038

c.villinger@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Former Research Fellows

Marcus Meer May 2020 – April 2024
William King April 2021 – March 2024
David Lawton April 2021 – March 2024
Sina Steglich April 2020 – March 2023
Jane Freeland July 2019 – August 2022
Emily Steinhauer September 2020 – August 2022
Felix Brahm August 2015 – July 2021
Bernhard Hollick March 2018 – May 2021
Jenny Pleinen May 2019 – April 2021
Hannes Ziegler September 2016 – March 2021
Tobias Becker August 2014 – September 2020
Falko Schnicke April 2015 – March 2020
Cornelia Linde October 2012 – March 2020
Felix Römer May 2012 – January 2019
Valeska Huber April 2011 – March 2017
Angela Schattner October 2010 – March 2016
Silke Strickrodt April 2009 – March 2015
Peter Kramper November 2012 – September 2014
Benedikt Stuchtey February 1995 – September 2013
Kerstin Brückweh February 2007 – February 2013
Jochen Schenk October 2007 – September 2012
Martina Steber May 2007 – April 2012
Chris Manias November 2007 – August 2010
Karina Urbach January 2004 – February 2009
Karsten Plöger January 2003 – December 2007
Torsten Riotte January 2003 – March 2007
Matthias Reiss March 2002 – February 2007
Ina Ulrike Paul March 2006 – September 2006
Dominik Geppert November 2000 – October 2005
Lothar Kettenacker July 1974 – June 2004
Regina Pörtner October 1998 – September 2003
Sabine Freitag January 1997 – July 2002
Andreas Fahrmeir January 1997 – December 2001
Ulrike Walton-Jordan May 1994 – April 1999
Bärbel Brodt March 1994 – March 1999
Dagmar Freist March 1995 – February 1998
Andrea Hopp March 1997 – December 1997
Willibald Steinmetz January 1992 – December 1996
Johannes Paulmann January 1992 – December 1996
Hermann Hiery June 1991 – September 1996
Peter Alter Oktober 1976 – March 1980 and October 1981 – October 1994
Eckhart Hellmuth September 1985 – July 1993
Eva Alexandra Mayring November 1990 – February 1993
Günther Heydemann November 1985 – August 1992
Frank Rexroth June 1989 – October 1991
Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam October 1987 – September 1991
Rolf Ahmann April 1986 – March 1991
Dagmar Engels April 1986 – March 1991
Almut Bues August 1990 – February 1991
Angela Kaiser-Lahme August 1987 – April 1990
Gerhard Hirschfeld August 1978 – July 1989
Helmut Reifeld October 1986 – July 1988
Ronald Asch May 1985 – July 1988
Stig Förster October 1982 – September 1987
Jürgen Osterhammel July 1982 – March 1986
Josef Foschepoth September 1980 – March 1986
Kaspar von Greyerz November 1980 – October 1985
Hans-Gerhard Husung September 1979 – March 1985
Rudolf Muhs October 1982 – March 1983
Regina Schulte February 1982 – March 1983
Bernd Weisbrod April 1980 – September 1982
Paul Luft November 1977 – July 1982
Wolfgang Mock August 1977 – July 1982
Wilfried Nippel October 1980 – October 1981
Klaus Deinert April 1980 – July 1980
Milan Hauner February 1976 – March 1980
Jochen Thies February 1976 – April 1978
 
 

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor and other Visiting Scholars

 
 

Paul Nolte

Visiting Professor

+44 020 7309 2035

p.nolte@ghil.ac.uk

Felix Lüttge

Feodor Lynen Fellow

 
 

Previous Gerda Henkel Visiting Professors

2023/2024

Prof Dr Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin): German Zeitgeschichte from the Margins: The Post-War Experience of Nazi Victims

2022/2023

Prof Dr Constantin Goschler (Bochum): Cultures of Compromise in Germany and Britain, 1945–2000

2021/2022

Prof Dr Alexander Nützenadel (Berlin): Economic Populism and the Rise of Fascism in Interwar Europe

2020/2021

Prof Dr Martina Kessel (Bielefeld): The imagined individual:

Narratives of self, history, and politics in modern Germany

2019/2020

Prof Dr Ulrich Herbert (Freiburg): Migration Policy in Germany and Europe, 1980–2019

2018/2019Prof Dr Johanna Gehmacher (Vienna): Records and Notes from Trans/National Networks: Politics and Women’s Movements around 1900 in the Personal Papers of Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930)
2017/2018Prof Dr Arnd Bauerkämper (Berlin): Security and Humanity in the First World War: The Treatment of Civilian 'Enemy Aliens' in the Belligerent States
2016/2017Prof Dr Dominik Geppert (Bonn): A History of Divided Germany, 1945–1990
2015/2016Prof Dr Lutz Raphael (Trier): Transformations of Industrial Labour in Western Europe between 1970 and 2000
2014/2015Prof Dr Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht): Welfare in the Warfare State: Nazi Social Policy on the International Stage
2013/2014Prof Dr Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg): Coffee Worlds. Trade in Green Coffee and its Agents: The Hamburg Coffee Merchants in the 20th century
2012/2013Prof Dr Andreas Rödder (Mainz): The History of the Present
2011/2012Prof Dr Ute Daniel (Braunschweig): Media and Politics: An entangled History (c. 1900–1980)
2010/2011Prof Dr Christoph Cornelißen (Frankfurt am Main): The British and German Welfare States After 'the Great Boom': Public Debates on Social Inequality and Social Justice since the 1970s
2009/2010Prof Dr Johannes Paulmann (Mainz): International Aid and Solidarity: Humanitarian Commitment and the Media in Germany, c. 1950–1985
 
 

Library

 
 

Matthias Ammon

Head Librarian

+44 020 7309 2021

m.ammon@ghil.ac.uk

Christiane Swinbank

Librarian

+44 020 7309 2022

c.swinbank@ghil.ac.uk

Jolanta Gambus

Librarian

+44 020 7309 2039

j.gambus@ghil.ac.uk

Helen Jones

Librarian

+44 020 7309 2019

h.jones@ghil.ac.uk

Jana Remy

Library Assistant

+44 020 7309 2011

j.remy@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Publications and Public Relations

 
 

Marielle Sutherland

Translator and Editor

+44 020 7309 2031

m.sutherland@ghil.ac.uk

Jozef van der Voort

Translator and Editor

+44 020 7309 2024

J.vanderVoort@ghil.ac.uk

Kim König

PR and Events

+44 20 73092033

k.koenig@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Services and Administration

 
 

Alexandra Campana

Personal Assistant to the Director

+44 020 7309 2023

a.campana@ghil.ac.uk

Maxine Hart

Receptionist

+44 020 7309 2050

m.hart@ghil.ac.uk

Mia Hellmich

Administrative Assistant

+44 020 7309 2026

m.hellmich@ghil.ac.uk

David Lodge

Facilities Manager

+44 020 7309 2012

d.lodge@ghil.ac.uk

Julian Triandafyllou

Administrative Assistant/Receptionist

+44 020 7309 2050

j.triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

Ulrike Wessollek

Administrative Assistant

+44 020 7309 2025

u.wessollek@ghil.ac.uk

 
 

Academic Advisory Board

 
 

The GHIL’s Academic Advisory Board consists of eminent historians from Germany and Britain. It provides guidance and direction for the work of the Institute and helps shape the GHIL’s aims and strategy. It also plays a crucial role in supporting the research fellows in the pursuit of their academic careers.

Members
Prof Dr Jörg Peltzer (Chair; University of Heidelberg) Prof Dr Ulinka Rublack (Deputy Chair; University of Cambridge)
Prof Dr Paul Betts (University of Oxford) Prof Dr Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (Univerity of Bremen)
Prof Dr Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg) Prof Dr Patrick Sahle (University of Wuppertal)
Dr Heike Liebau (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) Prof Dr Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London)
Prof Dr Gisela Mettele (University of Jena)  
 
 

Equal Opportunities

 
 
Scrabble tiles spelling out the word 'equality', on a pile on blank tiles on top of a rainbow stripe background

The GHIL is an equal opportunities employer. In accordance with German Federal Law, a Gender Equality Officer, who is elected by female staff for a four-year term, advises management on ensuring compliance with the law, and supports colleagues if they experience discrimination, sexual harassment, or difficulties in balancing work and family life.