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Dr. Stefan Hördler is a historian affiliated with the Institute for Economic and Social History at Georg-August-University Göttingen and holds a Visiting Professor position at the School of Arts & Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. His work bridges industrial history, Holocaust studies, and transnational memory processes.
Research Focus:
- Industrial decline and labor transformations in West Germany and the US since the 1970s
- SS photography and visual documentation of concentration camps
- Comparative German-American historical analysis
- Postwar prosecution of Nazi crimes
Recent Publications include critical analyses of the Auschwitz Album and Höcker Album, exploring how perpetrators documented genocide through photography. His work on deindustrialization examines parallels between postwar steel industry collapses.
Scientific Recognition:
- 1st Tiburtius Prize for outstanding dissertation
- Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellowship at US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Herbert Wehner Grant
- Multiple awards from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Advisory Roles include memberships on international boards such as the EHRI Holocaust Photographs Expert Group, Deutsches Museum Munich (Historic Aviation), and Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial. He also serves as an expert consultant in Nazi crime investigations.
