Volker Ullrich
Volker Ullrich was born in Celle, Germany, and pursued an academically rich education at the University of Hamburg, studying history, literature, philosophy, and education.
He served as an academic assistant, completed his dissertation on Hamburg's early 20th-century labor movement, and worked as both a schoolteacher and university politics lecturer.
He became a research fellow at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-century Social History before joining Die Zeit as head of its political section in 1990.
A prolific author on 19th- and 20th-century history, Ullrich received the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism in 1992 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena in 2008.
