Stig Forester

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Stig Förster (born July 30, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German historian specializing in military history . He is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary General History at the University of Bern .

Live and act

Förster's ancestors included some Prussian-German soldiers and officers. That influenced his interest in military history, but it wasn't critical. Rather, he is interested in a historical understanding of war and organized violence, for which military history studies are essential. He was born in Berlin-Steglitz in 1951 and graduated from the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf . From 1972 on he studied history and German at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . After the first state examination (1978), he received a scholarship at the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) in Mainz and was then assistant to Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin , the director of the IEG, at the Technical University, mediated by his doctoral supervisor Wolfgang J. Mommsen Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . In 1982 he was in Dusseldorf with the dissertation The double militarism to Dr. phil. PhD; awarded as the best dissertation of the year.

From 1982 to 1987 Förster worked as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London . In 1986 he spent several months in India doing research . From 1987 to the beginning of 1989 he worked as a DFG scholarship abroad in London on his habilitation thesis. In 1990 he completed his habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf. From 1989 to 1992 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington .

From 1992 to 1994 he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg . From 1994 to 2016 he was Professor of Modern General History at the University of Bern . His academic students include Tanja Bührer , Markus Pöhlmann , Daniel Marc Segesser , Birgit Beck and Dierk Walter . Together with Jörg Nagler , Manfred Boemeke , Bernd Greiner and Roger Chickering , he organized the international conferences between 1992 and 2001 under the name The Age of Total War, 1861–1945 .

From November 2002 to October 2017, Stig Förster was first chairman of the working group on military history . In addition, Förster is a member of the Historical Peace Research Working Group , the German England Research Working Group , the Non-European History Working Group and the Association of Historians in Germany . He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Defense for the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Förster is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. Förster was a member of the (Advisory) Editorial Board of the German History and War in History journals . In addition, until 2018 he was co-editor of the series War in History at Ferdinand Schöningh . Since his retirement, Förster has continued to work scientifically and on several research projects. Förster's main research areas are:

Stig Förster is married. He lives in Stettlen near Bern and Berlin.

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Monographs

  • Double militarism. The German military armament policy between securing the status quo and aggression 1890–1913 (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Vol. 118). Steiner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-515-04310-1 (dissertation, University of Düsseldorf, 1982).
  • The mighty servants of the East India Company . Causes and background of the British expansion policy in South Asia 1793-1819 (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 54). Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-05953-9 (habilitation thesis, University of Düsseldorf, 1989).

Editorships

  • with Wolfgang J. Mommsen , Ronald Robinson: Bismarck, Europe and Africa. The Berlin Africa Conference 1884–1885 and the onset of partition . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-19-920500-0 .
  • Moltke: From Cabinet War to People's War. A selection of works . Bouvier, Bonn a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-416-80655-7 .
  • with Johannes Burkhardt , Josef Becker , Günther Kronenbitter : Long and short ways into the First World War. Four Augsburg contributions to research into the causes of war (= writings of the philosophical faculties of the University of Augsburg , No. 49). Vögel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89650-012-0 .
  • with Eva-Maria Also : “barbarians” and “white devils”. Cultural Conflicts and Imperialism in Asia from the 18th to the 20th Century . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1997, ISBN 3-506-70402-8 .
  • with Jörg Nagler On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification 1861–1871. Cambridge University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-521-56071-3 .
  • with Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering : Anticipating total war. The German and American experiences, 1871-1914 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1999, ISBN 0-521-62294-8 .
  • with Gerhard Hirschfeld : Genocide in modern history . Lit, Münster 1999. ISBN 3-8258-4018-2 .
  • with Markus Pöhlmann , Dierk Walter : Battles of world history. From Salamis to Sinai . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48097-7 .
  • On the threshold of total war. The military debate about the war of the future 1919–1939 (= War in History , Vol. 13). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-506-74482-8 .
  • with Roger Chickering: The Shadows of Total War. Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81236-8 .
  • with Roger Chickering, Bernd Greiner : A World at Total War. Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 978-0-511-08213-9 .
  • with Markus Pöhlmann, Dierk Walter: Warlords of world history. 22 historical portraits . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54983-0 .
  • with Michael Epkenhans , Karen Hagemann : Military culture of remembrance. Soldiers in the mirror of biographies (= war in history , vol. 29). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75680-0 .
  • with Roger Chickering: Great War - Total War. Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-02637-6 .
  • with Christian Jansen , Günther Kronenbitter: Return of the Condottieri? War and the military between state monopoly and privatization. From antiquity to the present (= war in history , vol. 57). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76754-7 .
  • with Roger Chickering: War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-89996-3 .
  • Before jumping into the dark. The military debate about the war of the future 1880–1914 (= War in History , Vol. 92). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78266-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stig Förster: Der doppelte Militarismus , 1985, p. Xi.
  2. ↑ Dierk Walter : God and the historian. Or: "It was nice!" Stig Förster as a scientist and a person . In: Flavio Eichmann, Markus Pöhlmann , Dierk Walter (eds.): Global power conflicts and wars. Festschrift for Stig Förster on his 65th birthday . Paderborn 2016, p. 16.
  3. ↑ Dierk Walter : God and the historian. Or: "It was nice!" Stig Förster as a scientist and a person . In: Flavio Eichmann, Markus Pöhlmann , Dierk Walter (eds.): Global power conflicts and wars. Festschrift for Stig Förster on his 65th birthday . Paderborn 2016, p. 23.
  4. ^ Board of Directors , Military History Portal, accessed on August 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ About us / Advisory Boards // Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr // ZMSBw. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Stig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Steglitz