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Amizade Faculty Instructors

Name: Christopher Kopper

Instructor Biography: Christopher Kopper is German and teaches Modern German History at the Universität Bielefeld in Germany. He received his degrees from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (MA and PhD) and is a specialist for 20th century German History, particularly for Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Kopper is the author of several books about banking in Nazi Germany and the history of mobility and transportation.

As an undergraduate, he started an independent research project about the history of the Holocaust and the Nazi Era in his German hometown. This was the beginning of a long, intensive and continuous occupation with the history of the Nazi dictatorship.

From 1998 to 2001, Christopher Kopper taught German History and German Studies at the University of Minnesota. After the end of this term, he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh and continued teaching Modern German and European History until 2003. In 2002 he developed the Service Learning Program "The Holocaust – Past and Present" and led his first group of students to a three week field study course and Service Learning program in Berlin and Poland. Until today, he has led four Amizade groups to the places where the Holocaust was planned and implemented.

He is a native speaker of German, possesses a wide knowledge of the Nazi Regime, the Holocaust and the memorialization of the Shoah and established many personal and professional connections to researchers in Germany. Christopher Kopper lives in Bielefeld and has a passion for arts, architecture and sports.