Professor Dr Jurgen Kocka

Professor Emeritus of History, Free University Berlin

Jürgen Kocka (*1941) taught Modern History at the University of Bielefeld, the Free University Berlin and UCLA. He was a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, President of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Vice-President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow of the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam.
He has published widely in the field of modern history, particularly the social, economic and cultural history of Germany as well as comparative history. His publications in English include Facing Total War: German Society, 1914–1918 (1984); Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany (1999); Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (2010); Capitalism: A Short History (2016); and Historians and the Future (2020).
He has received honorary degrees from several European universities and a number of prizes, among them the German Leibniz Price and the Norwegian Holberg Prize. He is a member of several academies, for instance the Leopoldina, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts.