Background

Stefan Berger was born on September 26, 1964 in Langenfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Son of Karl and Inge (maiden name: Multaup) Berger.

Education

From 1985 to 1987 Berger attended the University of Cologne, where he studied history, political science and German literature. In 1990 he graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford.

Career

He was a lecturer in Modern European History and British social history at the University of Plymouth in 1990-1991, and from 1991 to 2000 he lectured in the same field at the School of European Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. Until 2011 he was Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Achievements

• He was a Rhodes scholar, Oxford University, in 1987-1990.

Works

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  • The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800
  • Germany (Inventing the Nation)
  • The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe (Writing the Nation)
  • Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990
  • Social Democracy and the Working Class: in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany (Themes In Modern German History)
  • The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats, 1900-1931 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
  • The Force of Labour: The Western European Labour Movement and the Working Class in the Twentieth Century

Membership

He is a member of German History Society, Labour History Society.

Connections

He married Jutta Grub on November 2, 1991. They have a child Kristina.

Spouse:

Jutta Grub

child:

Kristina Berger