PhD student in modern and contemporary history at the University of Freiburg. In 2006–2012 he studied history and social sciences in Münster and Vienna. He obtained a master's degree in modern history from the University of Münster. In 2010, he co-created the exhibition "Hitler und die Deutschen. Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechenat" in the German Historical Museum in Berlin. In 2012–2015 worked in the research group 1288 "Friends, Patrons, Clients" (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft organization). Since 2012, a lecturer in modern history and history of Eastern Europe at the universities of Münster and Freiburg. From 2013, spokesman of the interdisciplinary working group dealing with social and cultural issues in Eastern Europe in historical and literary terms ("Social and Cultural Regimes in Eastern Europe in Historical and Literary Perspective"), which operates at the School of Humanities in Freiburg. In 2016, he received a scholarship from the International Institute for Research program on the Extermination of Jews and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. He published, amongst others, Hitler und die Deutschen. Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen. Bausteine ​​für Unterricht und außerschulische historisch-politische Bildung (2010); Männlichkeit, Vertrauen und Gewalt. Deutsche Ordnungspolizisten als Besatzungsmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg (in the volume Zwischen Geschlecht und Nation. Interdependenzen und Interaktionen in der multiethnischen Gesellschaft Polens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2016); soon to be published Options, constraints and concealments. Group culture in an ordinary SS-Police Battalion („Global War Studies”).