Horst Möller

Professor of Contemporary History
Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte
University of Munich

Horst Möller is professor of contemporary history at the University of Munich and since 1992 has been director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, based in Munich and Berlin. In 1989, he was appointed to direct the Institut Historique Allemand in Paris and in 2002 he became a visiting professor at Sciences Po as Alfred Grosser Chair.

His research has addressed the birth of the German nation, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Second World War and Franco- German relations. As an acknowledged specialist in these domains, he has served or continues to serve on the advisory boards of numerous institutions: the Association Internationale d’Histoire Comtemporaine de l’Europe, the Deutsches Historisches Institut of London, Rome, Moscow, Paris and Warsaw, the Institut Charles de Gaulle and the Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung in Dresden.

His many articles and publications include: La Résistance allemande dans la vie culturelle des deux états allemands après 1945 (1991), Allemagne-France : lieux et mémoire d’une histoire commune (1995), Paris und Berlin in der Revolution 1848 (1995), Der rote Holocaust und die Deutschen : die Debatte um das “Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus” (1999), Demokratie in Deutschland und Frankreich 1918-1933/40. Beiträge zu einem historischen Vergleich (with Manfred Kittel, 2002), Willy Brandt und Frankreich (2005).

Horst Möller received the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2006, the Lémonon Prize of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques in 1998 and the Prix France-Allemagne in 1994. He was made an Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1995 and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bordeaux in 1998.