The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship is a co-operation of the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), the , the (GHIL), and the Gerda Henkel Professor’s home university. Its purpose is to promote awareness in Britain of German research on the history of the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, and to stimulate comparative work on German history in a European context. The first professorship was awarded in 2009.
Prof. Paul Nolte is the 2024/25 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor.
Previous Visiting Professors:
2023/24 - Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum:
2022/23 - Professor Constantin Goschler: Cultures of Compromise in Germany and Britain, 1945–2000
2021/22 - Prof Dr Alexander Nützenadel: Facism and Finance - Economic Populism in Interwar Europe
2020/21 - (Bielefeld University): Germanness in the 20th century: Identity, Politics, and Violence in Germany from the First World War to Re-Unification
2019/20 - (University of Freiburg): National Socialism: Old Theories and New Research Approaches
2018/19 - (Universität Wien): A Gender History of National Socialism – History, Memory, Debates
2017/18 - (Freie Universität Berlin): The GDR and Communist Parties in Europe 1949-1990
2016/17 - (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): A History of Divided Germany, 1945-1990
2015/16 - (Trier): Transformations of Industrial Labour in Western Europe between 1970 and 2000
2014/15 — (Maastricht): Welfare in the Warfare State: Nazi Social Policy on the International Stage
2013/14 — (Hamburg): Coffee Worlds in Green Coffee and its Agents: The Hamburg Coffee Merchants in the 20th Century
2012/13 — (Mainz): The History of the Present
2011/12 — (Braunschweig): Media and politics - an entangled history (c. 1900-1980)
2010/11 — (Frankfurt am Main): The British and German Welfare States after "the Great Boom": Public Debates on Social Inequality and Social Justice since the 1970s
2009/10 — (Mainz): International Aid and Solidarity: Humanitarian Commitment and the Media in Germany, c. 1950-1985