Overview
- He died on November 10 in Berlin after a long, serious illness, according to confirmations from associates and the Fritz Bauer Institute.
- He led the Fritz Bauer Institute from 2000 to 2005 and helped strengthen Holocaust research, including initiatives that later produced a dedicated professorship in Frankfurt.
- He taught educational sciences in Heidelberg and at Goethe University Frankfurt, and from 2013 served in Berlin as a senior advisor at the Center for Jewish Studies.
- He served on Frankfurt’s city council from 1989 to 2001 and left the Greens in 1991 over the party’s stance on military support for Israel during the Gulf War.
- He advocated structured, mandatory school visits to concentration camp memorials, signed the 2021 Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, and received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2025.