Ihrig adalah putra dari pasangan Johann dan Beate Ihrig.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stefan|first=Ihrig|date=2016|url=https://books.google.co.id/books?id=KStUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA450&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0674915178|url-status=live}}</ref> Ia menyelesaikan studi dan meraih gelar sarjana hukum dan politik di [[Queen Mary, Universitas London|Universitas Queen Mary]], London. Dia juga meraih gelar master dalam bidang sejarah di [[Universitas Bebas Berlin]] dan meraih gelar PhD di [[Universitas Cambridge]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Stefan Ihrig|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919004115/https://holocauststudies.haifa.ac.il/index.php/faculty-staff/faculty/212-professor-stefan-ihring|website=University of Haifa|access-date=2 September 2022|archive-date=2020-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919004115/https://holocauststudies.haifa.ac.il/index.php/faculty-staff/faculty/212-professor-stefan-ihring|dead-url=unfit}}</ref> dalam bidang sejarah dengan tesis tentang hubungan Jerman-Turki pada abad ke-20 yang dibimbing langsung oleh Sir Richard J. Evans.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mohammad Salama|first=Volker Max Langbehn|date=2011|url=https://books.google.co.id/books?id=hZU7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA142&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|pages=142|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Karir akademik ==
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== Aktifitas lain ==
Sebagai seorang akademisi Ihrig juga memiliki kesibukan lain yaitu sebagai editor ''[[Journal of Holocaust Research]]'' yang diterbitkan oleh Universitas Haifa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Journal of Holocaust Research|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rdap21&|website=Taylor & Francis|language=en|access-date=2022-09-02}}</ref> Dia juga memberikan kontribusi artikel untuk situs berita ''[[HuffPost]]'', [[Tablet magazine|''majalah Tablet'']], ''[[Haaretz]]'', dan ''[[History Today]]'', dan publikasi lainnya.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stefan Ihrig/op-eds & press articles|url=https://www.stefanihrig.com/op-eds|website=stef5|language=en|access-date=2022-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Stefan Ihrig {{!}} HuffPost|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208201033/https://www.huffpost.com/author/stefan-ihrig?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEb_bH_9Vo8gytdirnZ24BCTbXI-Yc_g7NR8PE6Vk0dwx3R93_bZFEj-3bxAQ5jUY-omypy1wHmbQ0tOwEwv7jprT76Pu6CqZzOop83ecLWseq9IRdO6idb1F-GKROLXt5mf1AnKJvjj3HG4AxJ9L7ewmUwzxrT5ynJn__Tkb1zz|website=web.archive.org|language=en|access-date=2022-09-02|archive-date=2020-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208201033/https://www.huffpost.com/author/stefan-ihrig?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEb_bH_9Vo8gytdirnZ24BCTbXI-Yc_g7NR8PE6Vk0dwx3R93_bZFEj-3bxAQ5jUY-omypy1wHmbQ0tOwEwv7jprT76Pu6CqZzOop83ecLWseq9IRdO6idb1F-GKROLXt5mf1AnKJvjj3HG4AxJ9L7ewmUwzxrT5ynJn__Tkb1zz|dead-url=unfit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-18|title=From the Armenian Genocide to the Warsaw Ghetto|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/from-musa-dagh-to-masada|website=Tablet Magazine|access-date=2022-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Measured Terror: The 1926 Turkish Coup {{!}} History Today|url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/measured-terror-1926-turkish-coup|website=www.historytoday.com|access-date=2022-09-02}}</ref>