Sybille Steinbacher

Sybille Steinbacher is a German historian. Since May 2017 she has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Steinbacher is the author of several works on the Holocaust, including Musterstadt Auschwitz: Germanisierungspolitik Und Judenmord in Ostoberschlesien (2010) and Auschwitz: A History (2005). She was a residential fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from October 2012 to June 2013, and has served as Professor of Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Comparative Studies at the University of Vienna. Her appointment by Goethe University Frankfurt in December 2016 made her Germany's first Professor of Holocaust Studies. She also became director of the university's Fritz Bauer Institute.