In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism, and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena.Journalist Ullrich offers a magisterial but unoriginal sequel to Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939. In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen’s book Hitler's Willing Executioners that provoked fresh debate among historians. Ullrich has published articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century history.
Since 1990 Ullrich has been the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 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. He graduated in 1975 after a dissertation on the Hamburg labour movement of the early 20th Century, after which he worked as a Hamburg school teacher. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Hamburg’s Egmont Zechlin Chair. He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg. In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen’s b Volker Ullrich was born in Celle.
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