Hartmut Berghoff is an economic and social historian. He has held research and teaching posts at University of Bielefeld, the University of Tübingen, Humboldt University Berlin, Beisheim Graduate School of Management Koblenz, and Harvard Business School. He is on leave from the directorship of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen and became Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. in April 2008. He is currently working on the history of consumption in Nazi Germany.

Business history, the interaction of cultural and economic history, the history of consumption and consumerism, the history of globalization.

The History of Consumption in Nazi Germany. more ...

since April 2008	Director, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
2007	Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
March - July 2006	International Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School
2002 - 2003	Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
since 2001	Professor of Economic and Social History and Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History, Georg August University Göttingen (on leave since 2008)
2000 - 2004	Adjunct Professor of Business History, Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, WHU Koblenz
2000 - 2001	Adjunct Professor of Economics and Economic History, Humboldt University Berlin
1997 - 2000	Adjunct Professor of Economic and Social History, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
1991 - 1997	Assistant Professor of Economic and Social History and German Research Foundation research fellow, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
1990	Staff member at the Wissenschaftsrat in Cologne (German Science and Humanities Council), Cologne
1986 - 1990	Research Fellow University of Bielefeld