Stefanie Schüler-Springorum was born in Hamburg, West Germany, a year after the sudden appearance of the Berlin Wall to the east. Her father was the Tehran-born German Professor of Jurisprudence and Criminality, Horst Schüler-Springorum (1928-2015).[3] She grew up in Hamburg, Göttingen and Munich.[4] Her university level studies covered Medieval and Modern History, Ethnology and Political Science, taking her to Göttingen and Barcelona.[4] She received her doctorate in 1993 from Bochum in return for a substantial piece of work on the Jewish minority in Königsberg between 1871 and 1945. Her doctorate was supervised by Helga Grebing (who did much to focus her choice of topic) and Hans Mommsen. The dissertation won her the distinction of a "summa cum laude" grading.[5]
Her work is centred on German history and German Jewish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has also undertaken work on gender history and on twentieth century Spanish history, with a particular focus on the Spanish Civil War.[9]
^Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (1996). "Die jüdische Minderheit in Königsberg/Preußen 1871–1945". Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,Göttingen & Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. ISBN3-525-36049-5. Retrieved 15 October 2015.