Background
Volker Ullrich was born in Celle He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg.
non-fiction writer historian journalist
Volker Ullrich was born in Celle He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg.
Arbitur, Hankensbüttel Gymnasium, 1962. Staatsexamen, Hamburg University, 1968. Staatsexamen, Hamburg Study Seminary, 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy, Hamburg University, 1976.
From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Hamburg’s Egmont Zechlin Chair. He was, for a time, a lecturer in politics at the Lüneburg University, and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg’s Foundation for 20th-century Social History. Ullrich has published articles and books on 19thand 20th-century history.
In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism, and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena.
Since 1990 Ullrich has been the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen’s book Hitler"s Willing Executioners that provoked fresh debate among historians.
Married Gudrun Hadeler, April, 1975. 1 child, Sebastian.