Thorsten Loch

Thorsten Loch (* 1975 in Andernach ) is a German officer ( lieutenant colonel ) and military historian .

Life

Loch joined the armored infantry troops of the German Armed Forces in 1995 as an officer candidate . From 1998 to 2002 he studied history and social sciences at the Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg .

He then worked as a historian officer with the 21 Panzer Brigade in Augustdorf. In 2004 he became a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA). In 2006, with Bernd Wegner's dissertation, The Face of the Bundeswehr - Soldier Images in the Context of Media Communication Strategies in Volunteer Recruitment, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he became company commander to secure company in the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense (MoD) in Berlin. From 2009 to 2010 he was a lecturer in military history at the Army Officers School (OSH) in Dresden.

Since 2010 he has been a research assistant at the MGFA in Potsdam, initially responsible for the operational support module. From 2013 to 2015 he worked in the research area “German Military History since 1945”. In 2015 he became acting head of the project area “History of Alliances” within the research area “Military history after 1945”. His main research interests are German military history, social history and historical imagery.

He is part of the editorial team of the military history magazine (MGZ). In 2019, Loch received the advancement award for military history and military technology history for his habilitation thesis .

Fonts (selection)

• Ed .: The Guard Battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense (1957–2007). History - mission - tradition . On behalf of the Guard Battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense in cooperation with the Military History Research Office. Mittler, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8132-0889-4 .
• The face of the Bundeswehr. Communication strategies in the voluntary recruitment of the Bundeswehr 1956 to 1989 . ( Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58396-0 .
• Edited with Lars Zacharias: How the Victory Column Came to Berlin. A short history of the wars of unification from 1864 to 1871 . In cooperation with the Military History Research Office and the Napoleon Museum Thurgau. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-7930-9668-9 .
• Edited with Martin Hofbauer : North Africa (= guide to history ). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77326-5 .
• Ed. With Eberhard Birk , Peter Andreas Popp : How Friedrich became “the great”. A little history of the Seven Years' War 1756 to 1763 . In cooperation with the Military History Research Office and the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7930-9711-2 .
• Edited with Eberhard Birk, Peter Andreas Popp: How Napoleon came to Waterloo. A short history of the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-7930-9802-7 .
• Edited with Markus Vette : Friedrich Clauson von Kaas: "Potsdam is beaten". Letters from the Franco-German War 1870/71 . On behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7930-9820-1 .
• German generals 1945 to 1990. Profession - career - origin . Habilitation thesis, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg 2019.

Web links

• Search for "Thorsten Loch" in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Thorsten Loch" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Thorsten Loch at the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences