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PD Dr. Knud Andresen is a Research Professor at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, and serves as the acting deputy director of the Research Center for Contemporary History (FZH). His research focuses on 20th-century labor history, trade unions, youth movements, and oral history, with recent projects examining trade union time policies and far-right extremism in Hamburg.
Andresen holds a habilitation from the University of Hamburg (2015) and completed his doctorate there in 2005. He has held temporary professorships at the Universities of Greifswald (2019) and Hamburg (2019/2020). His scholarly output includes monographs like Gebremste Radikalisierung (2016) and edited volumes such as Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe (2021).
His publications center on labor politics, social movements, and memory studies, with recurring themes of trade union strategies, youth subcultures, and political transformation in divided Germany. Andresen also contributes to public discourse through lectures on industrial conflicts and historical labor movements.
