”The German Maritime Museum enables me to present the wide range of topics connected with shipping and its history in its entirety not only to the specialist public, but also to a broad public in a variety of ways, to make research results usable through their publication, and to preserve the maritime cultural heritage for posterity.“
Current position
Research assistant
Division Management Library and Information Infrastructure
Field of research
German maritime history
Discipline
Medieval and recent history
Erik Hoops
+49 471 482 07 13
Main areas of work
Head of the scientific editorial department of the German Maritime Museum (DSM)
Academic head of the library
Editing and proofreading of the series "Schriften des Deutschen Schifffahrtsmuseums" and the scientific yearbook "Deutsches Schifffahrtsarchiv"
Editor of the journal "Deutsche Schiffahrt"
Editing of other publications of the DSM and its associates
Editing of exhibition texts
Curriculum Vitae
since 2020 | Academic head of the library of the German Maritime Museum |
since 2015 | Editor of the magazine "Deutsche Schiffahrt" of the Förderverein Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum e.V. (Friends of the German Maritime Museum) |
since 2004 | Head of the scientific editorial department of the German Maritime Museum |
since 2000 | Research associate at the German Maritime Museum |
2008-2010 | Data Protection Officer of the German Maritime Museum |
2007-2008 | Press Officer of the German Maritime Museum |
2001-2005 | Freelance press officer for the German Maritime Museum |
1999 | University degree Magister Artium |
1998-2018 | Freelance editor |
1989-1999 | Studied German, Scandinavian and political science at the Philipps University of Marburg |