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Hartmut Berghoff

Director, Institute of Economic and Social History, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen


History of Consumption, History of Economic Crime

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 has been Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. from 2008 to 2015. He is now the Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen.

His website is

Service to the BHC
Nominating Committee 2014 - 2016
Investments Committee 2012 - 2015 [Chair 2014 - 2015]
Grants and Prizes Committee 2009 - 2012 [Chair 2010 - 2011]
Board of Trustees 2009 - 2012


Recent Conference Participation
2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Turbulent Growth. The Aviation Industry since the 1990s in the Light of Lufthansa's Recent History"
Chair, Fabricating the Market: Narratives of State Control, Reform, and Resistance
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "The Twisted Road to a Research Project. Forced Labor at Bahlsen, Shitstorms and the Unexpected Opening of the Archives"
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Turbulent Growth. On the Volatile History of the Air Cargo Industry since the 1990s"
Chair, Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Disruption
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "Varieties of Family Capitalism: Results of a Comparative Project on Germany and the United States"
2020 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Varieties of Family Capitalism: Results of a Comparative Project on Germany and the United States"

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