Kerstin von Lingen (born 1971) is a German military historian who specialises in the study of war crimes.
She then wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Britische Kriegsverbrecher und Begnadigungspolitik am Beispiel des Verfahrens gegen Feldmarschall Albert Kesselring in Italien ("British war criminals and pardon policy on the example of the case against Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in Italy") under the supervision of Dieter Langewiesche.
[1] In 2005, von Lingen commenced work on a research project, Immunität durch Kapitulationsverhandlungen: der Fall des SS-Obergruppenführers Karl Wolff ("Immunity Through Surrender Negotiations: the Case of the SS Obergruppenfuehrer Karl Wolff, from which her book SS und Secret Service (2010) was created.
[2] Lingen was Junior Research Group Leader at the "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" Cluster of Excellence at the University of Heidelberg from 2013 to 2017.
"[2][3] In 2016, she was awarded the International Chair of the History of the Second World War, an annual lecture prize by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
[2] From 2017 to 2018, Lingen was a visiting professor of Contemporary History (comparative dictatorship, violence, and genocide research) at the University of Vienna.