Johannes Tuchel (born 20 December 1957) is a German political scientist.
He is currently head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre ("Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand") museum[1][2] and chief executive of the foundation responsible for it.
[4] While preparing to submit his dissertation, Tuchel worked as a research assistant at the German Resistance Memorial Centre from 1983 to 1987.
[2] Since 1992 he has simultaneously held a teaching post at the Otto Suhr Political Sciences Institute at the Free University of Berlin, being promoted to the status of Privatdozent in 2001, and becoming Professor for Political and Social Sciences at the Free University in 2007.
[6] As both an author and as editor-compiler, Tuchel has published various books and other contributions on the resistance to National Socialism and the Nazi concentration camp network.