Executive Board and Management
DIREcTOR UND Chairman
PROF. DR. HANS-JÖRG CZECH
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Hans-Jörg Czech began his museum career at the Staatliche Museen in Kassel before moving to the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin in 2000 as assistant to the director general. In 2007, he moved to Wiesbaden as founding director of the city museum of the Hessian state capital. In mid-2013, Senator Prof. Barbara Kisseler appointed him director of the Altonaer Museum. With his help, the museum regained its strength as an important cultural history museum in northern Germany with strong local roots in the Altona district. At the beginning of 2016, he moved to the helm of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, where the successful special exhibitions “No Beer Without the Alster: Hamburg – Brewery of the Hanseatic League” and “Revolution! Revolution? Hamburg 1918/19” were realized. During this time, he also worked with the staff to initiate plans for the structural modernization of the museum and the redesign of the permanent exhibition. He has been involved in numerous committees of associations and initiatives dealing with issues in the context of memory politics and (post-)colonial discourses in Hamburg and beyond.
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
BETTINA KIEHN
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
As Commercial Director of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, Bettina Kiehn is responsible for all commercial matters relating to the management of finance, controlling, human resources, IT, and visitor services. For the SHMH, the continuation and further development of a cross-foundation administrative structure is a key factor in ensuring its economic success in the future. In addition, she plans, manages, and oversees, in close coordination with the director and board, the commercial aspects of the ongoing and upcoming structural and content-related modernization of various SHMH locations, as well as the new construction of the German Port Museum.
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Bettina Kiehn, who holds a degree in business administration, has been managing the Wilhelmsburg Community Center Foundation since 2006 and has served as its executive director since 2009. She has extensive experience in the economic and organizational management of cultural institutions and in developing a wide range of measures for the financing of non-profit organizations.
Museum Directors
Prof. Bettina Probst
DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF HAMBURG HISTORY
Bettina Probst has been director of the Museum of Hamburg History since November 1, 2020. The museum, which is currently closed to visitors, is undergoing extensive structural and content-related modernization. Bettina Probst brings not only the necessary expertise from complex projects and change processes to her new role, but also valuable experience from working with large museum associations.
From 2012 to 2020, she was a staff and project manager at the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, where she was responsible for the planning and presentation of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the Berlin State Museums in the context of the Humboldt Forum. Prior to that, the historian and Latin American studies scholar, who specialises in economic and social history, managed numerous large-scale and international exhibition and cooperation projects as a consultant and project manager in the General Directorate of the Dresden State Art Collections from 2002 to 2012.
Prof. Dr. Anja Dauschek
DIRECTOR OF THE ALTONA MUSEUM
Prof. Dr. Anja Dauschek (born in 1966) has been director of the Altona Museum in Hamburg since 2017. Between 2007 and 2016, she was head of the planning team responsible for establishing the City Museum in Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2006, she worked as a consultant for the internationally active museum consultancy LORD Cultural Resources and headed the company’s Berlin office.
Anja Dauschek studied social sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and museum studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and earned her doctorate in folklore at the University of Hamburg. From 2011 to 2016, she was a member of the board of the Museum Association of Baden-Württemberg e.V. and taught museum management at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg. Her publications include Museen neu denken. Perspektiven der Kulturvermittlung und Zielgruppenarbeit (Museen neu denken. Perspektiven der Kulturvermittlung und Zielgruppenarbeit (Bielefeld, 2008).
Prof. Dr. Rita Müller
DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF WORK
Rita Müller has been director of the Museum of Work at the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation since 2014. After studying history and German language and literature, she earned her doctorate in social and economic history in Mannheim. After working at the Landesmuseum für technik und Arbeit, now the Technoseum, and the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum in Furtwangen, she spent more than ten years at the Sächsische Industriemuseum Association, first as a research consultant in Chemnitz, then for three years as acting director of the Westsächsischen Textilmuseums Crimmitschau, heute Tuchfabrik. Gebr. Pfau..
From 2008 to 2019, she was spokesperson for the Technical History Museums section of the German Museum Association (DMB), and she has been on the DMB’s executive board since May 2018.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bernhard Staubermann
FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE GERMAN PORT MUSEUM (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Since November 1, 2022, Prof. Dr. Klaus Bernhard Staubermann has been the founding director of the German Port Museum, which is currently under construction and will operate at two locations in the future. The historic four-masted barque PEKING is also located at the existing site at Schuppen 50A. The second location will be built in the second half of the 2020s in the newly developing Grasbrook district.
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Before taking up his position at the SHMH, Klaus Bernhard Staubermann was managing director and secretary general of the German National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Germany). His work there focused primarily on the topics of decolonization, digitization, and sustainability in museums. He also served as a visiting professor at the universities of Gothenburg and Bengaluru (India). Until 2018, Klaus Bernhard Staubermann was Principal Curator at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for more than ten years, where he played a key role in the redesign of the permanent exhibition, for which the museum received numerous awards and which led to a significant increase in visitor numbers.
