About
Jürgen Finger is head of the Department of contemporary history at the German Historical Institute (GHI) Paris. Prior to this, he has raised funding within the framework of the European Union MSC Actions and served as a DAAD P.R.I.M.E.-Fellow at the Centre d’histore de Sciences Po in Paris in cooperation with GHI Paris and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is a former Research Fellow at LMU Munich and at the University of Augsburg where he earned his Dr. phil. His major publications on the educational and business history of the Third Reich include “Dr. Oetker und der Nationalsozialismus. Geschichte eines Familienunternehmens“ (2013, together with Sven Keller and Andreas Wirsching); „Eigensinn im Einheitsstaat. NS-Schulpolitik in Württemberg, Baden und im Elsass 1933-1945” (2016). He is currently exploring “The Moral Economy of Belle Époque France,” a book project that deals with the cultural embeddedness of capitalism. Education
MA University of Augsburg (2003) – PhD University of Augsburg (2009)
Teaching and Research appointments at the Universities of Augsburg (2003-2005, 2009-2012) and Munich (LMU, 2012-2015)
DAAD P.R.I.M.E.-Fellow (2015–2017), FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, Marie Curie Action (grant no. 605728)
Since 2017, researcher at the German Historical Institute Paris, since 2018 head of the department of contemporary history and, since 2023, head of the publications department Memberships
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein e.V. (AGLO)
- Association Française d’Histoire Économique (AFHE)
- Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
- Deutsch-französisches Historikerkomitee (DFHK)
- Board of the École doctorale d’Histoire (ED 113), Univ. Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (GSWG)
- Société d’Études Romantiques et Dix-neuvièmistes (S.E.R.D.)
- Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.V. (VHHD)
