Gerhard Hümmelchen

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Gerhard Hümmelchen ( April 2, 1927 - December 5, 2014 ) was a German military historian . For many years he was managing director of the working group for defense research .

Life

Hümmelchen did military service in the Wehrmacht Air Force from 1943 to 1945 . From 1950 to 1955 he studied history, art history and German at the universities in Heidelberg and Tübingen. From 1957 to 1959 he was a research fellow in the Air Force Study Group of the US Historical Division. In 1958 he was at Walther Peter Fuchs at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the use of auxiliary cruiser during the German naval warfare 1940-43 taking into account the trade war operations of battleships and heavy cruisers 1939-42 to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1959 to 1990 he was the managing director of the working group for defense research in Stuttgart. Together with Andreas Hillgruber , he compiled a chronicle of the Second World War in the Wehrwissenschaftlichen Rundschau .

Hümmelchen, a member of the CDU , was municipal councilor for the city of Winnenden from 1980 to 1994 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Trade disruptors. Trade war of German surface forces in World War II . Edited in collaboration with the Working Group for Defense Research , Mercator-Verlag, Munich 1960.
  • With Andreas Hillgruber : Chronicle of the Second World War . Published by the Working Group for Defense Research, Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
  • With Jürgen Rohwer : Chronicle of the Naval War 1939–1945 . Edited by the Working Group for Defense Research and the Library for Contemporary History, Stalling, Oldenburg 1968.
  • Naval War Atlas. Mediterranean, Black Sea, 1940–1943 . With a foreword by Friedrich Ruge , Lehmann, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-469-00298-3 .
  • The German naval pilots 1935–1945 (= military science reports . Vol. 9). Lehmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00306-8 .
  • The German speedboats in World War II . Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0487-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jost Dülffer : Andreas Hillgruber - German great power, Nazi crimes and the state system . In: Hans Ehlert (Hrsg.): German military historians from Hans Delbrück to Andreas Hillgruber . Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-941571-06-8 , pp. 69–84, here: p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Hümmelchen, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1927
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2014