Andreas Froese
Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
afroese(at)dora(dot)de
Press enquiries: presse(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 811
Andreas Froese studied history, political science and economics in Constance, Rome and Prague; 2006-2012 research assistant and lecturer in Constance and Prague; 2012-2014 trainee at the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial; 2014-2015 research assistant at the Topography of Terror Foundation, Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour, Berlin; 2014-2019 freelancer at Mittelbau-Dora Memorial, 2015-2023 Director of the Isenschnibbe Barn Memorial Gardelegen, since 2024 Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial (...)
Sebastian Hammer
Deputy Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
Head of the Documentation Centre
shammer(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0) 3631 495 825
2012-2017 Studies in History, Social Sciences and Education at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Cergy-Pontoise, 2017-2021 Studies in Public History at the University of Cologne, 2023-2024 Trainee at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, since 2024 Deputy Director of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Head of the Documentation Centre
SECRETARIAL OFFICE
Birgit Lauer
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Phone: +49 (0)3631 495 811
Fax: +49 (0)3631 495 813
ADMINISTRATION
Heike Fiedler
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+49 (0)3631 495 814
VISITOR INFORMATION
Christin Böhme
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+49 (0)3631 495 820
Gabriele Knabe
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+49 (0)3631 495 820
Jörg Kulbe
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+49 (0)3631 495 820
Astrid Stang
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+49 (0)3631 495 820
COLLECTIONS
Torsten Heß
Research Staff
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+49 (0) 3631 495 815
Sophia Annweiler
Research Associate Museology and Collections
sannweiler(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0) 3631 495 826
2016–2023 Sophia Annweiler studied history and Romanic languages at the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen. From 2024 to 2025, she worked as a research assistant on the provenance research project ‘The Global Trade Networks of the Alfeld Animal Trading Companies Reiche and Ruhe. Provenance Research on the Circulation of Animals, People and Ethnographica in the 19th and 20th Centuries’, and as a freelance educational assistant at the Friedland Border Transit Camp Museum, 2023–2025 Trainee at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, (...)
PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Anne Otto
Trainee
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aotto(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0) 3631 495 823
2009–2016 studies in history, French, and education (B.A./M.Ed.) at the Ruhr University Bochum; since 2016 dissertation project on the history of schools and schooling in the Weimar Republic; 2017–2023 research associate at the Department of the History of Education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; since Oct. 2024 trainee at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Brita Heinrichs
Head of the Education Department
bheinrichs(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 822
Brita Heinrichs studied at the Pädagogische Hochschule Leipzig from 1985 to 1990, achieving a diploma in teaching (...)
Jan Lormis
Associate
jlormis(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 824
studied Museology at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, 2019 B.A. in Museology, studied Museum Education / Learning in Museums at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, 2023 M.A. in Museum Education / Learning in Museums, 2016–2019 independent associate of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial, (...)
Hanna Emmelmann
Associate
hemmelmann(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 817
2017–2023 studies in history at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen (B.A./M.A.); 2017–2023 freelancer at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial ; since 2023 employee in the Education Department of the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial (...)
Oliver Neef
Associate
oneef(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 851
2014–2018 BA studies at the Technische Universität Dresden in history and art history with a focus on the history of National Socialism, Jewish history in Europe and the political history of Zionism; 2018–2022 MA studies at the University of Haifa in the International MA Programme in Holocaust Studies with a focus on the social foundations of National Socialism, the history of propaganda and content communication in museums and memorial sites; since 2025, staff member in the education department of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.
FEDERAL VOLUNTEERS SERVICE (BFD)
Melina Sieke
msieke(at)dora(dot)de
BUILDING SERVICES
Andreas Scherbaum
ascherbaum(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 835
Toralf Schwimmer
tschwimmer(at)dora(dot)de
+49 (0)3631 495 836