Victoria und Albert – Wege und Wirkungen - Victoria and Albert – Paths and Effects

Franziska A. Bartl studied History and German Studies at Bamberg and received her doctorate at the Institute for European Studies and History at Technische Universität Chemnitz with a dissertation on a protagonist of the attempted coup against the Nazi regime of 20 July 1944. Since 2023, she has been a research assistant in a project on the Chemnitz student body in the GDR era at TU Chemnitz, and Executive Chair of the Prinz Albert Gesellschaft since 2015. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century history, particularly National Socialism and the GDR, the history of German-British relations, and European dynastic history, focusing on the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Prof. Dr. Frank-Lothar Kroll, born in 1959, has held the professorship of 19th- and 20th-century European history at Technische University Chemnitz since 2000. He is chairman of the scientific advisory board of Bundesstiftung „Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung“ and has served on numerous other advisory boards for many years, including those of Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Warsaw, and the Forschungsgemeinschaft 20. Juli 1944.