Heinz-Gerhard Haupt was born on 21 March 1943 in Göttingen.
[1] Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is Professor of Social History at the Bielefeld University, but until August 30, 2011, on a Sabbatical at the European University Institute [2] in Florence.
He heads two research projects of the Collaborative Research Center 584 “The Political as Communication Space in History”.
He is co-applicant of the German Research Foundation's research unit “Youth Violence“ and board member of the Institute for interdisciplinary research on conflict and violence.
He is a member of advisory board of the Academia istropolitana (Bratislava), member of advisory board of the journal Genèse (Paris) and member of advisory board of the journal Comparativ (Leipzig).