Nanoporous materials are enormously interesting for future applications due to many excellent properties including: high surface-to-volume ratio, high strength-to-weight ratio, electrical and thermal conductivity, or radiation tolerance. These excellent properties can be used for combining structural purpose and a certain functional use in the same material at the same time. To use these foams more efficiently in the future, it is necessary to acquire information about the foam manufacturing, their thermo-mechanical properties, and the plastic deformation mechanisms. Therefore, the objective of this diploma thesis was to manufacture nanoporous copper, to determine the thermo-mechanical properties, and to elucidate the deformation behavior at elevated temperatures. The experimental approach for manufacturing the foam structures used high-pressure torsion, subsequent heat treatments, and selective dissolution. Scanning electron microscopy was used for identifying the shape and size of the foam structures and their thermal stability. In-situ nanoindentation was conducted to determine mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms at elevated temperatures. High-temperature nanoindentation was successfully conducted on nanoporous copper, showing a room temperature hardness of 220 MPa. During high temperature experiments, unexpected oxidation of the copper occurred even at low temperatures and the hardness rapidly increased to ~ 1 GPa. A model was developed, taking into account the mechanical properties of the copper oxides, which allows to explain the measured mechanical properties in dependence of the proceeding oxidation. The strain rate sensitivity of the copper foam strongly correlates with the strain rate sensitivity of ultra fine grained bulk copper. Although oxidation occurred near the surface, the rate-controlling process was still the deformation of the softer copper. An increase in the strain rate sensitivity with increasing temperature was observed, comparably to that of ultra fine grained copper, which can be linked to thermally activated processes at grain boundaries. Important insights into the effects of oxidation on the deformation behavior were obtained by assessing the activation volume. Oxidation of the copper foam, thereby hindering dislocations to exit to the surface, resulted in a pronounced reduction of the apparent activation volume from ~ 800 b^3 to ~ 50 b^3, typical for ultra fine grained materials. These basic mechanistic insights shall contribute to a better understanding of the deformation processes of nanoporous materials at a microscopic level.