Olaf Groehler

Olaf Groehler (born April 28, 1935 in Berlin ; † December 27, 1995 there ) was a German military historian in the GDR . His main area of work was the history of the air war between 1914 and 1945.

Life

In 1953 he graduated from high school . 1953 to 1957 he studied history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then worked as a publishing editor. From 1960 he worked at the Academy of Sciences . 1964 doctorate he holds the British and American political and military preparation for the Second Front Dr. phil. In 1971 he completed his habilitation on the same topic. In 1983 he was appointed Professor of German History at the Academy of Sciences. There he became head of the German History department from 1917 to 1945 at the Central Institute for History. From 1985 to 1990 he was Deputy Director of the Central Institute for History.

After 1990 he worked on the research focus on contemporary history studies in Potsdam until his work as an unofficial employee of the State Security became public in 1994 . His biography of the aviation entrepreneur Hugo Junkers remained unfinished after his death.

Fonts

The attitude of the ruling circles in the USA, Great Britain and Germany to the political and military preparation of the second front 1943–1944 . Berlin 1964 [= Humboldt University, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation 1964].
History of the Air War 1910–1970 . Military Publishing House, Berlin 1975 (8th edition 1990).
The end of the Reich Chancellery. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 1), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1976, DNB 770038891 .
The Korean War 1950 to 1953. The failure of American aggression against the KDVR . Military publishing house, Berlin 1980
The silent death. Use and development of German poison gases from 1914 to 1945 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-499-18738-8 .
(with Helmuth Erfurth): Hugo Junkers . A political essay . Military Publishing House , Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-327-00677-6 .

Bomb war against Germany . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000612-9 .

with Ulrich Herbert : Coping in two ways. Four articles on dealing with the Nazi past in the two German states . Results, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-87916-020-4 .

The strategic aerial warfare and its effects on the German civilian population . In: Air Warfare in World War II. An international comparison . On behalf of the Military History Research Office, ed. by Horst Boog . Mittler, Herford-Bonn 1993 pp. 329-349, ISBN 3-8132-0340-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Olaf Groehler in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Olaf Groehler in Kalliope
Bastiaan Robert von Benda-Beckmann: “Imperialist Air War”: East German historiography and the work of Olaf Groehler, 1965–1995. (pdf, 1.2 MB) In: A German catastrophe? German historians and the Allied bombings, 1945–2010. Vossiuspers UvA - Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, September 28, 2010, pp. 215-269 (English).; accessed on December 12, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Wippermann : The Dictatorship of Suspicion: The SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin on the hunt for communists. In: Jungle World . February 19, 1998, accessed August 31, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Groehler, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1995
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Wolfgang Wippermann : The Dictatorship of Suspicion: The SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin on the hunt for communists. In: Jungle World . February 19, 1998, accessed August 31, 2019 .