is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Rome since 2017. After studying History, History of Art and Political Sciences at the University of Trier where he received his Ph.D. in Contemporary History, and after teaching and research periods in Cologne, Munich and Paris, he joined the German Historical Institute in Rome. He served as Consultant of the Italian Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on German War Crimes in Italy, of the Italian Commission on the Looting of the Library of the Jewish Community in Rome, he was a member of the Historians’ Committee established by the German and Italian Ministries for Foreign Affairs. He is member of the History Department and teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests cover especially the history of World War II, Fascism and National Socialism, Remembrance Cultures after 1945, Napoleonic Europe.
