German historian (1972-)
Volker Weiss (born 1972) is a German historian, writer, and commentator on extreme right movements. His research focus is the extreme right and German history in the 19th and 20th century. Volker Weiss is a Fellow of the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.
Biography.
Volker Weiss studied literature studies, social and economical history as well as psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 2009, he finished his PhD in history with a study of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a major conservative intellectual in the late 19th and early 20th century that greatly influenced the Nazi Party.
Weiss has since taught at the University of Hamburg, Leipzig University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2021, he was a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck.
As a journalist and writer, Weiss has published articles in a variety of media outlets, including "Süddeutsche Zeitung", "Der Spiegel" and "Die Zeit". He has written regularly for the Berlin weekly newspaper "Jungle World" since 2003, primarily on the extreme right in Germany. His 2017 book "Die autoritäre Revolte. Die Neue Rechte und der Untergang des Abendlandes" (the authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Downfall of the West) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, and made his work known to a wider audience. He has also published a commentary on Theodor W. Adorno's work "Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism", which was translated into English and Polish. He is considered an journalistic expert on the extreme right in Germany.
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