Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at
Columbia University. His research interests have included the
fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of
World War I, and German-American relations. He received a M.A. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and a PhD, under supervision of
Francis L. Carsten, from the
University of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position at
Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.
Berghahn now holds the chair of
Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society.
Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010,
ISBN978-3-525-37013-1
Umbau im Wiederaufbau: Amerika und die deutsche Industrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013,
ISBN978-3-8353-1306-4
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019,
ISBN978-0-691-17963-6
Hans-Günther Sohl als Stahlunternehmer und Präsident des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie: 1906–1989. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020,
ISBN978-3-8353-3852-4