Bernd Wegner (historian)

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Bernd Wegner (born October 1, 1949 in Oberhausen - Sterkrade ) is a German historian . Since 1997 he has been Professor of Modern History, with a special focus on the history of Western Europe, at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg .

With the ninth edition of the monograph Hitler's political soldiers published in 2010 - the Waffen-SS 1933–1945 , he wrote a generally recognized standard work on the history of the Waffen-SS .

Career

After high school and military service in the armed forces , Wegner studied history , philosophy and political science at the universities of Tübingen , Vienna and Hamburg . 1979/80 he spent an academic year as a scholarship holder of the Volkswagen Foundation in Oxford (Volkswagen Research Fellow at St Antony's College ). In 1980 he was at Klaus-Jürgen Müller at the History Department of the University of Hamburg Dr. phil. PhD. Wegner then worked for over 15 years at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg , with teaching assignments at the university there, a guest lecturer at the University of Greifswald (after the fall of the Berlin Wall) and frequent lecture tours at home and abroad. In 1995 the habilitation was carried out by the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. Since 1997 Wegner has held a professorship for “Modern History with Consideration of Western Europe” at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. His academic students include: a. Michael Jonas , Agilolf Keßelring , Thorsten Loch , Rudolf J. Schlaffer , Oliver von Wrochem and John Zimmermann .

From 2000 to 2005 he was chairman of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War. He is co-editor of the War in History series . In 2009 he worked on an episode of the Planet Knowledge series .

Wegner has been married since 1975 and has three grown children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Hitler's political soldiers. The Waffen-SS 1933–1945: Concept, structure and function of a National Socialist elite. 9th edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76313-6 (revised dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1980).
  • (Co-author) The German Reich and the Second World War . Edited by Military History Research Office. Vol. 6: The expansion to the world war and the change of initiative 1941–1943 . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06233-1 .
  • (Co-author) The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 8: The Eastern Front 1943/44. The war in the east and on the secondary fronts . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-06235-2 .
  • German Paris. The view of the occupiers 1940–1944, Schöningh, Paderborn 2019 ISBN 978-3506780553
As editor

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XLVI. Edition 2007/08 (founded by Walter Habel - formerly Degeners who is it), Lübeck 2007, p. 1390.
personal data
SURNAME Wegner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen - Sterkrade