Dr. Stefan Lehr has been a research associate at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe (BKGE) in Oldenburg since 2019. After studying Eastern European history in Düsseldorf, Prague, Krakow and Moscow, he completed his doctorate at the University of Düsseldorf with a dissertation on the ‘Eastern deployment’ of German archivists in occupied Poland and Ukraine during the Second World War. He went on to conduct research at the University of Münster on topics including the Russian nobility and cultures of political decision-making in socialist Czechoslovakia. He is currently working on a project on the observation of the Sudeten German “Landsmannschaft”, a expellee organization, by the Czechoslovakian state security.
Latest publications: „Kompromittiert durch eine NS-Vergangenheit“. Der Umgang der tschechoslowakischen Staatssicherheit mit der NS-Vergangenheit von Funktionären der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft und des Witiko-Bundes. In: Trașcă, Ottmar/Tărău, Virgiliu/Pintilescu, Corneliu (eds.): Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South East. Mobility and Transnational Transfers between Nazi Germany and the South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’. Regensburg 2024 (= publications of the IKGS 144), pp. 409–449.
(Hg.): Unter Beobachtung. Vertriebenenverbände im Blick der sozialistischen Sicherheitsdienste. Under Surveillance. The Monitoring of Expellee Organizations by the Socialist Security Services. Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa 3 (2022).
