Friedrich Kiessling

Friedrich Kießling is a German historian. He was a professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Bonn and a research associate at the Chair of Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He also conducted research and taught in London, Vienna, and Dresden. A major focus of his work is the aftermath of National Socialism in the Federal Republic of Germany. Together with Christoph Safferling, he examined the history of Germany’s Federal Prosecutor General’s Office after the Second World War.