Werner Rahn

Werner Rahn (born June 9, 1939 in Ilsenburg ) is a German naval officer ( captain at sea a. D.) and military historian . He was the head of the Military History Research Office .

Life

Werner Rahn began training as an electrician after primary school . In 1954 the family left for the Federal Republic . In 1960 he passed the Abitur at the Herdecke Secondary School .

He joined the German Armed Forces on April 1, 1960 , became an officer in the Navy and had various on-board and land commands. In 1974 he was at Günter Moltmann at the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Hamburg with a thesis defense conception and the Navy in the Weimar Republic to the Dr. phil. PhD . After studying history, Rahn taught military history at the Mürwik Naval School and the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy .

From 1980 to 1997 he was employed (among other things as a department head) at the Military History Research Office, whose head of office he was from April 1995 to September 1997. In 1991/92, Rahn was Secretary of the Navy Research Fellow at Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, as part of an exchange program for the US Navy .

After his retirement in 1997, he took over the Berlin office of the German Society for Defense Technology from 2006 to 2009 .

Imperial Navy and National Defense 1919–1928. Conception and management of the navy in the Weimar Republic . Bernard and Graefe, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7637-5143-2 .
with Manfred Messerschmidt , Klaus A. Maier , 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 Gerhard Schreiber : War Diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945 . On behalf of the Military History Research Office in conjunction with the Federal Archives-Military Archives and the Navy Officers Association , Mittler, Berlin u. a. 1988 ff.
with Wilhelm Treue , Eberhard Möller: German naval armament 1919–1942. The dangers of the Tirpitz tradition . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-8132-0386-7 .
ed .: German Marines in Transition. From the symbol of national unity to the instrument of international security (= contributions to military history . Volume 63). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57674-7 .

Wilfried Rädisch (Ed.): Werner Rahn - Service and Science (= Potsdam writings on military history . Volume 11). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-941571-08-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rahn, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sea captain and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ilsenburg (Harz)