Inga Steinhauser is a doctoral student at Prof. Sybille Steinbacher’s Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust. Since July 2026, she has held a Finkelstein Foundation doctoral scholarship at the Fritz Bauer Institute. In her doctoral project on the post-war history of IG Farben in East Germany, she examines the early scholarly study and political use of the company’s National Socialist past.
Inga Steinhauser studied history, German studies and sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Stockholm University. Her master’s thesis on the expert reports prepared by the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) for trials concerning Nazi crimes in the 1950s and 1960s received the Kopper Endowment Fund Prize from the Institute of History at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2025. She worked for several years as a student research assistant at the Fritz Bauer Institute, where she was involved in the Institute’s archive as well as its educational activities. After completing her studies, she prepared a research study on the history of IG Farben during National Socialism and in the post-war period for the Fritz Bauer Institute, which her doctoral project builds on.
