Rolf-Dieter Müller

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Rolf-Dieter Müller (born December 9, 1948 in Braunschweig ) is a German military historian . He was a research associate at the Military History Research Office and Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Life

Müller studied history, political science and education in Braunschweig and Mainz. In 1975 he passed the state examination. In 1981 he started with Hans-Erich Volkmann at Faculty 16 (History) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the dissertation The Gateway to World Power. The importance of the Soviet Union for German economic and armaments policy between the world wars for Dr. phil. PhD. 1999 followed the habilitation on Albert Speer and the German armaments policy in total war and the award of the Venia legendi at the University of Münster . Since 2001 he has been an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . His research focuses on the history of the Second World War , German armaments policy and German-Soviet relations . His academic students include a. the military historian Christian Stachelbeck .

As early as 1979, Müller started working as a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA), which was then located in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he was active in the work group for the series production The German Reich and the Second World War . From 2004 to 2008 he was the scientific director of the series. From 2009 to 2012 he was head of Research Area II (Age of World Wars) at MGFA, and from 2013 of Research Area German Military History before 1945 at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam. He retired in 2014. Most recently he was Senior Scientific Director.

Müller became a member of the scientific advisory board of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and a board member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War. In addition, he was in charge of the Dresden historians' commission on the air raids on Dresden between February 13 and 15, 1945 , which lasted from the end of 2004 to March 2010. Since February 2011, he has been a member of the Independent Commission of Historians to research the history of the Federal Intelligence Service , its predecessor organizations and its personnel and impact profile from 1945 to 1968 and how to deal with this past . In 2017 his biography of BND boss Reinhard Gehlen was published . In an advisory capacity, he was a. the television productions Our Mothers, Our Fathers and Everyday Life under the Swastika . Rainer Blasius describes him as one of the "best experts on the Second World War".

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The gateway to world power. The significance of the Soviet Union for German economic and armaments policy between the world wars (= Defense Science Research / Department of Military History Studies . Vol. 32). Boldt, Boppardt am Rhein 1984, ISBN 3-7646-1850-7 (= also dissertation, University of Mainz, 1980).
  • with Gerd R. Ueberschär , Wolfram Wette : Whoever backs away will be shot! Everyday life and the end of the war in southwest Germany in 1944/45 . Dreisam-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1985, ISBN 3-89125-219-6 .
  • with Gerd R. Ueberschär: Germany on the brink. Collapse and fall of the Third Reich in 1945 . Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1986, ISBN 3-87799-073-8 .
  • with Gernot Erler , Ulrich Rose, Thomas Schnabel , Gerd R. Ueberschär, Wolfram Wette: History turning point? Disposal attempts on German history . With a foreword by Walter Dirks , Dreisam-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, ISBN 3-89125-255-2 .
  • with Rudibert Kunz: Poison gas against Abd-el-Krim. Germany, Spain and the gas war in Spanish Morocco 1922–1927 (= individual publications on military history . Vol. 34). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1990, ISBN 3-7930-0196-2 .
  • Hitler's Eastern War and German Settlement Policy. The cooperation between the armed forces, business and the SS . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10573-0 .
  • with Gerd R. Ueberschär: End of the war 1945. The destruction of the German Reich . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-10837-3 .
  • Albert Speer and armaments policy in total war . In: The German Reich and the Second World War. Vol. 5/2. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 275-773 (Oxford 2003 edition).
  • The manager of the war economy. Hans Kehrl . An entrepreneur in the politics of the Third Reich (= writings of the library for contemporary history . NF, vol. 9). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-685-5 .
  • with Gerd R. Ueberschär: Hitler's War in the East, 1941–1945. A research report . Extended and completely revised new edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14768-5 .
  • The bombing war 1939–1945 . Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-317-0 .
  • The Second World War, 1939–1945 (= Gebhardt. Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte . Vol. 21), 10th, completely revised edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-60021-3 .
  • The last German war 1939–1945 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94133-9 .
  • with Gerd R. Ueberschär: 1945. The end of the war . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89678-266-5 .
  • On the side of the Wehrmacht. Hitler's foreign helpers in the “Crusade against Bolshevism”, 1941–1945 . Links, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-86153-448-7 .
  • Military history . Böhlau (UTB), Cologne a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3224-5 .
  • The enemy is in the east. Hitler's secret plans for war against the Soviet Union in 1939 . Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-617-8 .
  • Hitler's Wehrmacht 1935 to 1945 (= compact military history . Vol. 4). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71298-8 .
  • The Second World War (= compact history ). WGB, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-534-26646-3 .
  • Reinhard Gehlen. Head of the secret service in the background of the Bonn Republic , 2 volumes, Ch. Links, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-966-7 .

Editorships

  • with Hans Günter Brauch : Chemical warfare - chemical disarmament. Documents and comments . Part 1: Documents from German and American archives (= military policy and armaments limitation . Vol. 1). Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87061-265-7 .
  • Organization and mobilization of the German sphere of influence (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 5, Part 1: War administration, economy and human resources 1939–1941 ). Stuttgart 1988, part 2: War administration, economy and human resources 1942-1944 / 45. Stuttgart 1999. Together with Bernhard R. Kroener a . Hans Umbreit.
  • German economic policy in the occupied Soviet territories 1941–1943. The final report of the Economic Staff East and the records of a member of the Kiev Economic Command (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries . Vol. 57). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1905-8 .
  • with Hans-Erich Volkmann : The Wehrmacht. Myth and Reality . Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56383-1 .
  • The collapse of the German Reich in 1945 (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 10). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, 2 half-volumes, DVA, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-06237-6 / ISBN 978-3-421-04338-2 .
  • with Ulrich Herrmann : Young soldiers in World War II. War experiences as life experiences (= materials for historical youth research ). Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7799-1138-8 .
  • with Nicole Schönherr, Thomas Widera: The Destruction of Dresden February 13th to 15th, 1945. Expert opinion and results of the Dresden Historical Commission to determine the number of victims (= reports and studies of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . No. 58). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-773-0 .
  • with Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger : Publications of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 (11 volumes). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016–2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller: The gateway to world power. The significance of the Soviet Union for German economic and armaments policy between the world wars . Boppard am Rhein 1984, p. Xi.
  2. ^ Research and working group "History of the BND" ( Memento from August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). bnd.bund.de, accessed on August 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Rainer Blasius : Morally and professionally failed. The responsibility of the German military elite for planning the Russian campaign from 1939 to 1941. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 20, 2011, p. 8 (review of the book The enemy is in the east ).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Rolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig