Louis Wörner M.A.

Louis Wörner is an associate researcher at the IGdJ. He studied history at the University of Hamburg. In his Bachelor's thesis, he dealt with tenants' councils in Hamburg after the First World War. In his master's thesis, he compared the reporting of Hamburg daily newspapers on colonial revisionist commemorative events in 1924 and 1934. He then wrote a publication about a Hessian housing cooperative as a research assistant at Historiker Genossenschaft eG. He is also a freelance guide at the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial. He is a volunteer with the Dessauer Ufer Initiative, which deals with National Socialist forced labor in the port of Hamburg and the Dessauer Ufer subcamp in particular, and campaigns for appropriate commemoration at the site.

Louis Wörner is researching biographical data and deportation routes of concentration camp prisoners in northwest Germany who were deported from Hungary within its borders at the time as part of the transnational research project Digital Commemoration and Research Infrastructure - The Holocaust in Hungary 80 Years Later (HUNGMEM). He is currently exploring the possibilities of digital evaluation and visualization of serial sources in the context of prisoner information.