Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Hamburg Institute for Social Research
AbbreviationHIS
Formation1984
FounderJan Philipp Reemtsma
TypeResearch institute
PurposeSocial research
Location
Coordinates53°34′09″N 9°59′41″E / 53.56920°N 9.99472°E / 53.56920; 9.99472
Director
Wolfgang Knöbl
Websitewww.his-online.de

The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (German: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung; abbreviated HIS) is an independent private foundation whose scholarship is focused on both contemporary history and the social sciences. Founded in 1984 by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, it currently employs about 50 people with roughly 50% working in the research fields of sociology and history. The institute publishes a bimonthly journal called Mittelweg 36 and has its own publishing house, Hamburger Edition and an archive and a library.

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