Rüdiger Bergien is a historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany and Europe. His work examines the modern state through the lens of governance, knowledge, security, and digitalization — from military mobilization in the Weimar Republic and rule in the SED party apparatus to the computerization of public administration and the history of intelligence services. He holds the professorship for Intelligence History at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences (HS Bund) 

Main Research Areas:

• State and governance in the twentieth century

• Knowledge, information, and digitalization

• Security and intelligence in modern history

Current

Book project
Gehlen’s Service, 1945–1968 (forthcoming, C.H. Beck, 2027)

Research projects
– The GDR in the Eyes of the BND (DFG-funded)
– The BND in Afghanistan