Clemens Vollnhals


Clemens Vollnhals is a German contemporary historian and a specialist of the Conservative Revolution, denazification, State security and political justice.

Life and career

From 1976 to 1981, Vollnhals studied modern and contemporary history, social and economic history, as well as political science at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He earned a PhD in contemporary history in 1987 in the same university, after a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Friedrich Prinz on the denazification of the Protestant Church after WWII.
Since 1996, he has been Deputy Director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden. From 2003 to 2006, he was a lecturer at Charles University of Prague, and then until 2009 at Sofia University.

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