The Impact of East German Nature Conservationists on the European Environmental Consciousness in the 20th Century

Astrid Mignon Kirchhof is a senior researcher and project manager at the Saxon Academy of Science and Humanities in Leipzig, following positions at Deutsches Museum in Munich, Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research covers transnational nineteenth to twenty-first century German history in its social, ecological, technological and urban dimensions, especially the histories of nature protection, technology and energy, conflict and social movements as well as philanthropic and gender history. Recently she co-edited (with J.R. McNeill) Nature and the Iron Curtain. Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries 1945–1990 (2019).