Prof. Dr. Volkhard Knigge /
Volkhard Knigge studied history, German literature, and educational science at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. In 1986 he earned his Ph.D. with a psychoanalytical, historical-didactic dissertation on the problem of trivial historical consciousness. Since 1994 he has been the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, where he played a key role in redesigning the memorials after 1989-90, as well as being involved in numerous permanent and traveling exhibits. In 2002 he was named honorary professor of History and Publicity at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Since 2007 he has headed its History in the Media and Public Sphere program.