Katja Hoyer (born 1985)[1] is a German-British[2] historian, journalist and writer.

[6] She received a Master's degree from the University of Jena[3] and moved to the United Kingdom in about 2010.

[7] Hoyer is a visiting research fellow at King's College London and has published two books about the history of Germany.

[8] She is also a journalist for The Spectator,[9] The Washington Post,[10] Times Literary Supplement,[11] UnHerd,[12] and Die Welt.

[3] Her first book, Blood and Iron, about the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, was well reviewed,[13][14] even though some reviewers suggested that she had played down the negative aspects of the period and of Otto von Bismarck's legacy.