Gregor Feindt joined the Leibniz Institute of European History in 2014. Since November 2021, he is also an associated member of collaborative research centre 1482 human differentiation.

Gregor studied Eastern European and Modern History, and Slavonic Studies in Bonn and Cracow (Jagiellonian University) and completed a PhD at Bonn on national discourse in Central European Samizdat. His thesis was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein-Preis of the Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und –historiker in 2014 and the Johannes-Zilkens-Promotionspreis of the German Academic National Foundation in 2015. In 2015/2016, he was Visiting Professor for history and culture of East Central Europe with a focus on Poland at the University of Bremen. Gregor received his habilitation at the University of Kiel in 2024 with a postdoctoral thesis on Baťa’s People. Rationalisation, Social Engineering and Differentiation in the Czechoslovak Company Town Zlín, 1918–1948.

Gregor is a historian of Central Europe and studies the transnational history of Czechoslovakia and Poland in the twentieth century. In his postdoctoral project, he enquires into the cultural history of social engineering and the making of “new (wo)men” in the Czechoslovak shoe company Baťa and the factory town of Zlín. Gregor also works on European Memory and its impact on the integration and disintegration of Europe as a political project. He is interested in processes of human differentiation and contributes to the collaborative research centre 1482 human differentiation. In his next project, we will study the politics of reparations and reconciliation between Poland and Germany after the Second World War.