Alexander Jordan

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Alexander Jordan (* 1975 in Füssen ) is a German historian . He is the director of the Military History Museum in Rastatt .

Life

Jordan comes from the Swabian town of Füssen. From 1999 to 2007 he studied history at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (MA 2004); In 2006 he was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences. In 2001/02 he studied history, social sciences and economics at the University of Wales , Swansea, on a European Union scholarship . (BSc Econ 2002).

In 2007 he was with Karl Möckl at the Faculty of History and Geosciences at the University of Bamberg with the dissertation War for the Alps 1914-1918. The First World War in the Alps and the Bavarian Border Guard in Tyrol to Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. In 2007/08 he was a lecturer; he built up an archive on the history of the Alpine War in northern Italy.

Since 2008, Jordan has succeeded Kai Uwe Tapken as director and managing director of the Defense History Museum (WGM) Rastatt GmbH. There he is u. a. Curator of military history special exhibitions. He is also a board member (managing director) of the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloß Rastatt eV

He is also a member of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire Militaire , the Working Group on Military History and the International Council of Museums and, since 2015, of the German Museum Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • War for the Alps. The First World War in the Alpine region and the Bavarian border guard in Tyrol (= contemporary historical research . Vol. 35). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12843-3 .
  • with Thomas Madeja and Winfried Mönch (arr.): Walk through history. 75 years of the Defense History Museum and 50 years of the Association of Friends of the WGM. Catalog for the special exhibition, July 18 to October 31, 2009 in the Military History Museum Rastatt (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum Rastatt . No. 7). Published by the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt, Rastatt 2009, ISBN 3-9810460-3-X .
  • with Thomas Madeja and Winfried Mönch (arr.): From Kaiser to Kaiser. Memories of the Franco-German War of 1870/71. Catalog for the special exhibition, July 31 to October 31, 2010 in the Military History Museum Rastatt (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum Rastatt . No. 8). Published by the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt, Rastatt 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810460-5-2 .
  • with Winfried Mönch (arrangement): names, images, shadows. Flotsam of the Wilhelminian Navy in Baden and Württemberg until 1918. Accompanying volume to the special exhibition, July 28 to October 28, 2012 in the Military History Museum Rastatt (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum Rastatt . No. 10). Published by the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt, Rastatt 2012, ISBN 978-3-9810460-7-6 .
  • Renger de Bruin and Maarten Brinkman (eds.) With the collaboration of Alexander Jordan: Friedensstädte. The treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden 1713–1714. [On the occasion of the exhibitions on the Peace of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden in the following museums: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, April 11 to September 22, 2013… Historisches Museum, Baden, September 7, 2014 to March 1, 2015] . Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-896-5 .
  • with Winfried Mönch (arrangement): "Picturesque" war images from the Hartmannsweilerkopf. The First World War in the Vosges and Upper Rhine 1914/15. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition, November 29, 2014 to April 26, 2015 in the Military History Museum Rastatt (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum Rastatt . No. 11). Published by the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt, Rastatt 2014, ISBN 978-3-9810460-8-3 .
  • with Dietmar Raksch and Ulrich Schiers (arrangement): Small gifts preserve friendship. Officer gifts from two centuries. Catalog for the special exhibition, August 14 to November 22, 2015 in the Military History Museum Rastatt (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum Rastatt . No. 12). Published by the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt, Rastatt 2015, ISBN 978-3-9810460-9-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Jordan: War for the Alps. The First World War in the Alpine region and the Bavarian border protection in Tyrol . Berlin 2008, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Employees , wgm-rastatt.de, accessed on March 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ Förderverein , wgm-rastatt.de, accessed on March 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Alexander, Jordan, Dr. , portal-militaergeschichte.de, accessed on March 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ New members . In: Bulletin of the German Museum Association 3/2015, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Feet