Norbert Friedrich

Norbert Friedrich (born 1962) is a German historian. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from Ruhr University Bochum with a dissertation on church history. His professional positions have included work as a research assistant and academic assistant at the university’s Faculty of Protestant Theology from 1991 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2002. He has also served on the board of the Fliedner Kulturstiftung Kaiserswerth. His research focuses include contemporary church history, the history of Protestant social welfare, the history of the church in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of social Protestantism.