Klaus Seidl

Dr Klaus Seidl is a senior official at the Parliamentary Research Services of the German Bundestag. His responsibilities include advising Members of Parliament on historical and political science issues as well as developing public history projects for the Bundestag. Seidl obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Munich and held positions as lecturer at the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt as well as fellowships at the University of London and the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington DC.

He is currently on leave from the Bundestag and works on a biography of the German historian and refugee scholar Veit Valentin (1885-1947). Being an outspoken liberal and pacifist, Valentin was dismissed from his posts in 1933 and fled to England and eventually to the United States. Shaped by his ambivalent experiences of exile, he developed an original approach to global history long before the recent global-history boom took off.

Seidl’s research interests include Modern European History, Public History, and Exile Studies.