Agilolf Keßelring

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Agilolf Keßelring (* 1972 in Tokyo , Japan ) is a German officer (Lieutenant Colonel d. R.) and historian .

Life

Kesselring's grandfather was Field Marshal Albert Kesselring , whom he did not meet. He was born in Tokyo in 1972 and joined the German Armed Forces in 1992 , where he was trained as an officer in artillery reconnaissance (last rank of lieutenant colonel in the reserve). From 1997 to 2001 he studied history, social sciences and international law at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (MA 2000). From 2001 to 2003 he was a drone operation officer and platoon leader ( Canadair CL-289 ) a. a. deployed in Macedonia and Kosovo . From 2003 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) and editor of the military history magazine . In 2007 he was with Bernd Wegner at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hamburg University of the Armed Forces with the dissertation The North Atlantic Alliance and Finland 1949–1961. Perception Patterns and Politics in the Cold War to Dr. phil. PhD.

Since 2007 he has been the Unmanned Air Vehicle specialist at Robonic in Tampere / Kemijärvi, Finland. In 2008/09 he worked as a researcher in the Department of Strategic and Defense Studies at the National Defense University in Helsinki. Since 2009 he has been teaching in the East Central European, Balkan and Baltic Studies (ECEBB) program at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki . In 2011 he became an Affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Political History there .

After having worked on the “Einsatzarmee Bundeswehr” project and the “ Guide to History ” since 2010, in 2010 he was the substitute head of the “Einsatzunterstützung” module at MGFA (today: Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr ). Since 2012 he has also been a research assistant at the "Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945 to 1968" at the History Department of the Philipps University of Marburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • The emperor's "Finnish Legion". The Finnish hunter movement in the First World War in the context of the German policy towards Finland (= series of publications by the German-Finnish Society, Vol. 5). BWV, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-0905-7 .
  • (Ed.): Bosnia-Herzegovina (= guide to history ). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-72976-4 .
  • with Bernhard Chiari (ed.): Kosovo (= guide to history ). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-506-75665-6 .
  • The North Atlantic Alliance and Finland 1949–1961. Patterns of perception and politics in the Cold War (= origin and problems of the Atlantic Alliance . Vol. 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58804-0 .
  • The Gehlen Organization and the Defense of West Germany. Old elite divisions and new military structures, 1949–1953 (= studies by the Independent Commission of Historians to research the history of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . No. 3). Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816000-2-5 .
  • The Gehlen Organization and the reorganization of the military in the Federal Republic. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86284-407-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JKFischer Publisher: JKFischer publishing shop. Retrieved March 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : Adenauer and the secret army . In: Der Spiegel 20/2014, pp. 47–49, here: p. 47. Online in engl. Language: [1]
personal data
SURNAME Keßelring, Agilolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan