Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism

The Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism (German: Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung) is a German research institute affiliated with the Dresden University of Technology (Technische Universität Dresden), devoted to research on totalitarianism and comparative studies of dictatorships, particularly communism and fascism/nazism and comparative analyses. Named in honour of Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the institute was founded by a decision of the Landtag of Saxony shortly after the fall of communism and opened in 1993. In its first two decades of existence, the main focus has been on the former East Germany and post-communist studies; since the 2010s the institute has also strengthened its research on the Nazi era. Since 2017, Thomas Lindenberger is the institute's director.

Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
Entrance of the institute building
AbbreviationHAIT
Named afterHannah Arendt
EstablishedJune 17, 1993 (1993-06-17)
TypeResearch institute
PurposeBasic research in contemporary history and comparative politics
Location
Coordinates51.02955°N 13.72430°E / 51.02955; 13.72430
Director
Thomas Lindenberger
PublicationTotalitarianism and Democracy
Parent organization
Dresden University of Technology
Staff (2018)
c. 50[1]
Websitehait.tu-dresden.de

References
  1. "Jahresbericht 2018" (PDF; 9,1 MB) (in German). Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  • Zehn Jahre Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V. an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-931648-44-3

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