Klaus A. Maier

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Klaus Autbert Maier (* 1940 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German officer ( Colonel retired) and military historian .

Life

Maier was in 1970 at the Department of History-Geography at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation The inscriptions of the district Saulgau to Dr. phil. PhD. The reporters of the work were Hansmartin Decker-Hauff and Klaus Schreiner . He was head of the research area "German Military History after 1945" at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau . As a colonel in the Air Force , he retired. In particular, the investigation into the air strike on Guernica created many false claims by officers' memoirs on the basis of the files.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guernica, April 26, 1937. The German intervention in Spain and the "Fall Guernica" (= individual publications on the military history of the Second World War . Volume 17). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, ISBN 3-7930-0176-8 .
  • with Horst Rohde, Bernd Stegemann, Hans Umbreit: The establishment of hegemony on the European continent (= The German Empire and the Second World War . Volume 2). Edited by the Military History Research Office, DVA, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01935-5 .
  • with Manfred Messerschmidt , Werner Rahn , Bruno Thoss : Military history. Problems - Theses - Ways (= contributions to military and war history , Volume 25). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-06122-X .
  • ed. with Norbert Wiggershaus : The North Atlantic Alliance 1949–1956 (= contributions to military history . Volume 37). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55967-2 .
  • ed. with Bruno Thoss: Western integration, security and the German question. Sources on foreign policy in the Adenauer era 1949–1963 (= selected sources on German history in modern times . Volume 42). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-11228-8 .
  • with Christian Greiner, Heinz Rebhan: NATO as a military alliance. Strategy, organization and nuclear control in the alliance. 1949 to 1959 (= origin and problems of the Atlantic Alliance . Volume 4). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, ed. by Bruno Thoß, Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56757-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus A. Maier: The inscriptions of the Saulgau district . Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1970, no p.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Klaus A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Klaus Autbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen