J�rgen Kocka
Jürgen Kocka is a permanent fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and former president of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. In 2011, he received the Holberg Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the scholarly world.
F1988 he was professor for social history at the university of Bielefeld and from 1988 to 2009 professor for the history of the industrial world at the Free University, Berlin.
From 2001 to 2007 he was president of the WZB Social Research Center in Berlin and from 2007 to 2009 he took up a research professorship at the center in ‘historical social science’. From 1998 to 2009 he was director of the Berlin School for Comparative European History (BKVGE).
Since 2009 he has been a permanent fellow at the IGK “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History” at Humboldt University, Berlin and a senior fellow at the Potsdam Centre for Research into Contemporary History.
Source: Humboldt University of Berlin
