Olaf Baschke is professor of Modern History at Münster University in Germany since 2014. He has also taught history at the universities of Trier, Cambridge, Lund and Heidelberg. He wrote Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1997), which was his PhD; Offenders or Victims? German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism (2009) and other books about the history of Christianity, about gender issues and about the history of historiography. He edited several books, among them: Konfessionen im Konflikt. Deutschland zwischen 1800 und 1970: ein zweites konfessionelles Zeitalter (2002).
