Overview
- The Fritz-Bauer-Institut confirmed his death, with news agencies reporting a long serious illness and the location as Berlin.
- He served as professor of educational science at Heidelberg from 1981 to 2000 and at Goethe University Frankfurt from 2000 to 2013.
- From 2000 to 2005 he directed the Fritz-Bauer-Institut, where he helped advance Holocaust research and exhibitions related to the Auschwitz trials.
- He received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2025.
- His interventions included signing the 2021 Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and urging carefully prepared school visits to concentration camp memorials.