Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner
Foundation Director
+49 (0)3643 430 130
Born in 1966, Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner studied medieval and modern history, geography, and Romance philology in Göttingen and Santiago de Chile (M.A.). He completed his doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 1999 with a thesis on the history of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp. In 2000 he was a guest scholar with the Max Planck Society research project "Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im NS" (Berlin). He served as director of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial (Nordhausen) 2001–2014, as executive director of the Lower Saxon Memorials Foundation 2001–2014, and director of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial (Celle) 2014-2020. He has been director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbaz-Dora Memorials Foundation since 2020.
Dr. Philipp Neumann-Thein
Foundation Deputy Director
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Born in 1975, Dr. Philipp Neumann-Thein studied modern and contemporary history, economic and social history, and political science in Jena and Siena (M.A.). 2003–2005 he held a research internship at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. In 2005 he began his doctoral project on the history of the International Committee Buchenwald Dora and Kommandos (ICBD). 2009–2017 he held the position of personal assistant to the Foundation director and was head of the Press and Public Relations Department of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Since 2013, he has held the title of Dr. phil. Since 2018, he has been deputy director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.
Andreas Froese
Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial
afroese(at)dora(dot)de
Press enquiries: presse(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 811
Andreas Froese studied history, political science and economics in Constance, Rome and Prague; 2006-2012 research assistant and lecturer in Constance and Prague; 2012-2014 trainee at the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial; 2014-2015 research assistant at the Topography of Terror Foundation, Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour, Berlin; 2014-2019 freelancer at Mittelbau-Dora Memorial, 2015-2023 Director of the Isenschnibbe Barn Memorial Gardelegen, since 2024 Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial (...)
Dr. Daniel Logemann
Director of the Museum of Forced Labor under National Socialism
dlogemann(at)museum-zwangsarbeit(dot)de
+49 (0)3643 430 249
Studied Eastern European history, Polish literature, and Southeast European studies in Jena, Lublin, and Cracow, 2007 M.A., 2010 doctorate, 2010–2015 research associate and curator in the Museum of the Second World Ar in Gdańsk, 2015–2018 scientific director, "Europäisches Kolleg Jena: Das 20. Jahrhundert und seine Repräsentationen", since 2018 research associate of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
Antje Hitzschke
Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau
Head of Strategic Communication and Public Relations
rluettgenau(at)buchenwald(dot)de
+49 (0)3643 430 157
Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau was born in 1966 in Hagen i. W.; 1985–1992 he studied history and media science in Bochum, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf. He has worked at the Buchenwald Memorial as a research associate since 1993.
Holger Obbarius
Kirsten Langbein
Secretarial Office Associate
sekretariat(at)buchenwald(dot)de
Phone: +49 (0)3643 430 130
Fax: +49 (0)3643 430 100
Juliane Witthöft
Secretarial Office Associate
sekretariat(at)buchenwald(dot)de
Phone: +49 (0)3643 430 130
Fax: +49 (0)3643 430 100