Stefan Hoerdler

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Stefan Hördler (* 1977 ) is a German historian .

Life

Stefan Hördler studied modern and contemporary history as well as philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1998 to 2006 . He was then a doctoral candidate at the Institute for History there and obtained his doctorate in 2012 on the subject of “Order and Inferno. The concentration camp system in the last year of the war ”; for the work he received the Joachim-Tiburtius-Preis of the Berlin universities. During this time, Hördler worked as an employee at the chair for contemporary history at Humboldt University. From 2012 to 2015 he worked as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington .

In 2015, Stefan Hördler was appointed head of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial in Nordhausen. In June 2019 it became known that the Board of Trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau memorials had separated from Hördler with immediate effect. His dismissal was declared unlawful by the labor court and Hördler was compensated with a severance payment.

Publications (selection)

  • Order and inferno. The concentration camp system in the last year of the war . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7

Editorships

  • SA terror as security of rule. "Köpenicker Blutwoche" and public violence under National Socialism . Metropol, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-86331-133-9
  • The Höcker album. Auschwitz through the lens of the SS. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016. ISBN 978-3-8053-4958-1

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Head of the Mittelbau-Dora memorial released , Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , June 7, 2019. Accessed July 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ mdr.de: Compensation for ex-director of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial | MDR.DE. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hoerdler, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977