Stefan Berger

Stefan Berger (born 1964 ) is a German historian and director of the Institute for Social Movements of the Ruhr- University Bochum.

Career

Berger received his doctorate in 1990 at the University of Oxford and taught from 1991 to 2000 as a lecturer in European History at the " School of European Studies" at the University of Wales in Cardiff. From 2000 to 2005 he was professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan to subsequently change as Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.

Since 2011 he has held the chair of social history and social movements at the Ruhr- University Bochum and has been head of the Institute for Social Movements ( ISB)

Works (selection)

As an author:

• ( with Norman LaPorte ): Friendly enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990, New York, 2010.
• Unequal sisters? The British Labour Party and the German Social Democracy in comparison, Bonn 1997.
• The British Labour Party and the German social democrats, Oxford 1994.

As editor:

• Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany, London 2000, ISBN 0,582,298,148th

Essays:

• Communists, social democrats and the democratic deficit in the labor movement, in: Yearbook of research on the history of the labor movement, Issue II/2006.