Armin Wagner

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Armin Wagner (born July 13, 1968 in West Berlin ) is a German officer ( colonel ) and historian . Since March 2017 he has been the director of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden.

Life

Wagner joined the Bundeswehr in 1987 and was trained as an army officer. From 1990 to 1994 he studied history and education at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (MA 1994). His master's thesis was supervised by Klaus-Jürgen Müller .

After a short time as a train driver , he was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Potsdam from 1994 to 2003 . In 2001 he was at Christoph Kleßmann at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam with the dissertation The National Defense Council and its predecessor institution as a cornerstone of the GDR security architecture 1953/54 to 1971. Studies on security and military policy of the SED in the era Ulbricht to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2003 to 2006 Wagner was a lecturer in military history at the Army Officers School in Dresden. From 2006 to 2009 he was lieutenant colonel i. G. used in the Military Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg . From 2009 to 2015 he was a consultant in the Office of the Federal President , in the Federal Council and in the Federal Ministry of Defense (Politics and Armed Forces Departments). He also worked as the staff officer responsible for Monitoring & Verification at the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS).

In March 2017, he succeeded Colonel Matthias Rogg as director of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden.

Wagner is the son-in-law of the set designer and university professor Helmut Wagner .

Fonts (selection)

  • The image of Soviet Russia in the memoirs of German diplomats of the Weimar Republic (= Studies on Weimar History . Vol. 2). Lit, Münster u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2379-2 .
  • Walter Ulbricht and the SED's secret security policy. The National Defense Council of the GDR and its prehistory (1953 to 1971) (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 4). Edited by the Military History Research Office, Links, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-280-8 .
  • with Matthias Uhl (ed.): Ulbricht, Khrushchev and the wall. A documentation (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Vol. 86). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-64586-2 .
  • with Dieter Krüger (Ed.): Conspiracy as a profession. German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War . Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-287-5 .
  • with Hans Ehlert (Ed.): Comrade General !. The military elite of the GDR in biographical sketches (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 7). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-312-X .
  • with Matthias Uhl: BND versus Soviet Army. West German military espionage in the GDR (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 14). Edited by the Military History Research Office, Links, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-461-7 (3rd edition 2010; also published in the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education 2007).
  • with Hans J. Giessmann (ed.): Army in action. Basics, strategies and results of a participation of the Bundeswehr (= Democracy, Security, Peace . Vol. 191). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4252-6 .
  • with Helmut Müller-Enbergs (Ed.): Spies and news dealers. Secret service careers in Germany 1939–1989 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-872-1 .
  • with Magnus Pahl (ed.): “The Führer Adolf Hitler is dead.” Assassination attempt and coup d'état on July 20, 1944. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89809-168-8 .
  • with Gerhard Bauer and Katja Protte (eds.): WAR MACHT NATION. How the German Empire came into being. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2020, ISBN 978-3-95498-545-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Armin Wagner: The image of Soviet Russia in the memoirs of German diplomats of the Weimar Republic . Münster 1995, p. 165.
  2. ^ Armin Wagner: Acknowledgments . In: Walter Ulbricht and the secret security policy of the SED. The National Defense Council of the GDR and its history (1953 to 1971) . Berlin 2002, p. XI f.
  3. ↑ Susanne Bund (Red.): 40 Years of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, 1971–2011. Research, advice, teaching . IFSH, Hamburg 2011, p. 17.
  4. ^ SZ: Change of leadership in the Bundeswehr Museum ( memento from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 16, 2017, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin