Prof. Dr. Manfred Grieger

Current Research (in German)

Essay: Company Hunts. On a Courtly Residue of Representation in the Trust Economy of Bourgeois Elites.
Book Manuscript: "The City of the KdF Car near Fallersleben". A Model City of the "People's Community"?
Volkswagen in Brazil, 1950–1985

8/1998: Joined Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft; until 2016: Head of Historical Communications in Group Communications
1998: Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden: Contributor to a research project on the history of Dresdner Bank AG
1998: Research Associate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden: Contributor to a research project on the history of Dresdner Bank AG
1996: PhD (Dr. phil.) in History at the Faculty of History, Ruhr University Bochum, dissertation on "The Volkswagen Factory and its Workers in the Third Reich, 1933–1948"
1994–1996: Employee at the Emschertal Museum, Herne
1993: Research Associate at the Working Group for Modern Social History, Heidelberg
1987–1992: Research Associate at the Chair of Modern History II, Ruhr University (Prof. Dr. Hans Mommsen): Involved in a research project on the history of the Volkswagen factory
1980–1986: Studied History, Eastern European History, Journalism, and Communication Studies at Ruhr University Bochum
1978–1980: Trained as a bookseller
Born in 1960