Since December 2022, Bruno Hamm-Pütt is research fellow and deputy director at the KAS Türkiye office in Ankara. From September 2021 until August 2022, Bruno Hamm-Pütt worked at the KAS Ukraine office in Kyjiw.
Prior to that, he completed a double degree master program in International War Studies at the University of Potsdam and the University College Dublin. His thesis examined Walter Hallstein’s biography before serving Konrad Adenauer as state secretary in the chancellery with a special focus on his role during national socialism as well as his tenure as the first dean of the Goethe University Frankfurt after 1945. Hamm-Pütt pursued his B.A. in Jewish Studies and Philosophy. As a DAAD scholarship holder in 2018, he did research on Jewish exile in India between 1939 and 1947. From 2018-2021, Hamm-Pütt supported the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung think tank Analysis and Consulting as a student assistant, where he was concerned with questions on religious affairs, challenges of integration and migration as well as education policy.
Beyond his professional duties, Hamm-Pütt engages with the intellectual history of the federal republic of Germany, likes football as much as badminton and takes interests in everything related to the wider black sea region.