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Joscha Döpp M.A.

Doctoral candidate, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Doctoral Scholarship

Joscha Döpp is a doctoral student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sybille Steinbacher, Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust, and a research assistant at the Fritz Bauer Institute. His dissertation project focuses on the life and work of lawyer Henry Ormond (1901–1973) in post-war Germany. Joscha Döpp holds a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).

He studied History, German Studies, Political Science, and Art History at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Toronto. His master’s thesis on the Callsen Trial (1967–1968) was awarded with the Stanislav Zámečník Research Award by the Comité International de Dachau in 2024. After completing his thesis, he contributed to a preliminary source study for a research project at the Fritz Bauer Institute on on the Polytechnische Gesellschaft and the savings banks in Frankfurt am Main during National Socialism.

Research Project

Henry Ormond – Lawyer and Advocate for Democracy in the Land of the Perpetrators: A German Post-War History (1945–1973)

Publication

Von Babyn Jar nach Darmstadt. Der SS-Sonderkommandoführer Kuno Callsen vor Gericht, Göttingen 2024.