Volker Ullrich (born 21 June 1943) is a German historian and journalist.

He was, for a time, a lecturer in politics at the Lüneburg University, and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-Century Social History.

[1] In 1990 Ullrich became the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners that provoked fresh debate among historians.

[3][4] In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism,[2] and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena.