Dierk Walter

Dierk Walter (born April 16, 1970 in Singen (Hohentwiel) ) is a German historian .

Life

Walter studied history and political science at the University of Augsburg (MA) from 1991 to 1995 . Then he was a research assistant for the latest general history at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern . In 2001 he was with Stig Förster with the dissertation Prussian Army Reforms 1807-1870. Military innovation and the myth of the "Roonian reform" for Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. This was followed by a position as a research assistant in the “Theory and History of Violence” department at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research . In 2008 he completed his habilitation and received the Venia Docendi for Modern and Contemporary History at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern. From 2012 to 2013 he represented the professorship for modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne . From 2013 to 2015 he was a research associate in the research project "Crisis and Transformation of Empires" at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.

Walter is a member of the Military History Working Group , the Association of Historians in Germany , the Historical Peace Research Working Group and the Military and Society in the Early Modern Age . He is also the author and editor of several books on military history.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Prussian army reforms 1807–1870. Military innovations and the myth of the “Roon Reform” (= War in History , Volume 16). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-506-74484-4 .
Between jungle war and atomic bomb. British visions of the war of the future 1945–1971 . Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-202-8 .
Organized Violence in European Expansion. Shape and logic of the imperial war . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86854-280-6 .

Editorships

with Stig Förster , Markus Pöhlmann : Battles of world history. From Salamis to Sinai . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48097-7 .
with Stig Förster, Markus Pöhlmann: Warlords of world history. 22 historical portraits . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54983-0 .
with Günther Kronenbitter , Markus Pöhlmann: crew. Function and shape of foreign military rule from antiquity to the 20th century (= war in history , volume 28). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-506-71736-7 .
with Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller : Hot Wars in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 1). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936096-61-3 .
with Bernd Greiner , Christian Th. Müller: Crises in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 2). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-95-8 .
with Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller: Fear in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 3). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-213-4 .
with Tanja Bührer , Christian Stachelbeck : Imperial Wars from 1500 to today. Structures - actors - learning processes . On behalf of the Military History Research Office . Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77337-1 .
with Birthe Kundrus : weapons, knowledge, change. Adaptation and learning in transcultural initial conflicts . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86854-241-7 .
with Flavio Eichmann, Markus Pöhlmann : Global power conflicts and wars. Festschrift for Stig Förster on his 65th birthday . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78392-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Dierk Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Dierk Walter in the German Digital Library
Search for "Dierk Walter" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Short biography and reviews of works by Dierk Walter at perlentaucher.de
Dierk Walter at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Website of Dierk Walter

Individual evidence

^ Vademecum of the historical sciences , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 617.
^ Dierk Walter: Prussian Army Reforms 1807-1870. Military innovation and the myth of the “Roon Reform” , Paderborn 2003, p. 11.
↑ The authors . In: Flavio Eichmann, Markus Pöhlmann, Dierk Walter (eds.): Global power conflicts and wars. Festschrift for Stig Förster on his 65th birthday . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78392-9 , pp. 339 .

personal data
SURNAME	Walter, Dierk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Singing (Hohentwiel)

[1] Vademecum of the historical sciences , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 617.

[2] Dierk Walter: Prussian Army Reforms 1807-1870. Military innovation and the myth of the “Roon Reform” , Paderborn 2003, p. 11.

[3] The authors . In: Flavio Eichmann, Markus Pöhlmann, Dierk Walter (eds.): Global power conflicts and wars. Festschrift for Stig Förster on his 65th birthday . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78392-9 , pp. 339 .