Bernhard R. Kroener

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Bernhard R. Kroener (born February 24, 1948 in Vallendar ) is a German military historian .

Bernhard R. Kroener was born in Vallendar near Koblenz in 1948 as the third son of Rhineland-Silesian parents. His father was an officer in World War II and later a ministerial director in the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 1952 he spent his childhood and youth in Bonn. From 1968 he did an 18-month military service in the Bundeswehr. Kroener studied modern history, classical archeology and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the University of Sorbonne . In Paris he was strongly influenced by the military historian André Corvisier . Through Corvisier, he put the focus on military history in the future. In 1977 he was with Stephan Skalweit in Bonn with the work Les routes et les étapes. Supplying the French armies in northeastern France (1635–1661). A contribution to the administrative history of the Ancien Régime to the Dr. phil. PhD. He received further support from his Bonn teacher Konrad Repgen , who pushed for the work to be included in the series of publications of the Association for Research into Modern History . From 1978 Kroener worked as a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) and from 1984 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Since 1985 he has been teaching regularly in Freiburg. His habilitation in modern and modern history, in particular military history, took place there in 1990 on the problems of personal armaments of the Third Reich .

Kroener taught from 1997 to 2013 as professor for military history / cultural history of violence at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam ; his successor was Sönke Neitzel . He was the first to hold a chair for military history at a university in Germany. From 2004 to 2010, Kroener was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and thus worked in this role longer than any of his predecessors. He played a key role in shaping the “Military Studies” master’s course established at the University of Potsdam in 2007. His academic students include Ralf Pröve , Rüdiger Bergien , Matthias Rogg , Jens Westemeier , Christian Th. Müller , Ludger Tewes , John Zimmermann and Stephan Huck .

Kroener's main research interests are the relationship between the military and society in the early modern period and the Thirty Years' War (15th to 17th centuries), the Prussian social history of the military in the 18th century, the role of the military in politics and society in the 19th century and phenomena of Population and war in the 20th century. From 1995 to 2004, Kroener was the first chairman of the working group for the military and society in the early modern period . From 2010 he was a German representative on the board of the International Commission for Military History .

Another focus is on museum work. Kroener played a key role in setting up the Museum of the Thirty Years War in Wittstock and in the redesign of the Military History Museum in Dresden. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Museum of the Thirty Years War (chair).

Kroener is a member of the Brandenburg Historical Commission and the Prussian Historical Commission . He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences . Kroener is co-editor of the series War in History at Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Herrschaft und Sozial System at Lit Verlag and the magazine for military history . Kroener is co-author of the complete works Das Deutsche Reich and the Second World War and the Encyclopedia of German History . He also wrote the lexicon articles on Alessandro Maffei and Baltasar von Marradas in the New German Biography (NDB) and worked on the German Biographical Encyclopedia and the Dictionnaire d'art et d'histoire militaires .

Fonts (selection)

  • List of publications: Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (eds.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77657-0 , pp. 498-507.

Monographs

  • Les routes et les étapes. Supplying the French armies in northeastern France (1635–1661). A contribution to the administrative history of the Ancien Régime (= series of publications of the Association for the Study of Modern History. Volume 11). Aschendorff, Münster 1980, ISBN 3-402-05630-5 .
  • The German Reich and the Second World War . Volume 5: Organization and mobilization of the German sphere of influence. 2 half volumes, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 1988/99, ISBN 3-421-06232-3 and ISBN 3-421-06499-7 .
  • Colonel General Friedrich Fromm. "The strong man in the homeland war zone". A biography. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71734-0 .
  • Military, State and Society in the 20th Century (1890–1990) (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 87). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-57635-1 .
  • Warfare, domination and society. 1300–1800 (= Encyclopedia of German History. Volume 92). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-56592-8 .

Editorships

  • Europe in the age of Frederick the Great. Economy, society, wars (= contributions to military history. Volume 26). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-486-55161-2 .
  • Potsdam. State, army, residence in Prussian-German military history. Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-549-05328-2 .
  • with Ralf Pröve : War and Peace. Military and Society in the Early Modern Era. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-506-74825-4 .
  • with Joachim Niemeyer : Hans Bleckwenn: Old Prussian officer portraits. Studies from the estate. With miniatures by Bodo Koch. Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2584-7 .
  • with Peter Baumgart , Heinz Stübig : The Prussian Army between the Ancién Regime and the establishment of an empire . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-75660-2 .

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg: Bernhard R. Kroener and the German military historiography. In: Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (Eds.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Paderborn 2013, pp. 15–24, here: p. 16.
  2. ↑ Otto Köhler : Hitler left - they stayed. The German post-war in 16 examples . KVV Konkret, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930786-04-4 , p. 118.
  3. ↑ Personal details . In: Deutsche Universitätszeitung 12 (1990), p. 30.
  4. ^ Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg: Bernhard R. Kroener and the German military historiography. In: Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (Eds.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Paderborn 2013, pp. 15–24, here: p. 15.
  5. ^ Foreword by Prof. Dr. Johann Ev. Hafner, Dean of the Philosophical University of Potsdam University. In: Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (Eds.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Paderborn 2013, pp. 13-14, here: p. 13.
  6. ^ Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg: Bernhard R. Kroener and the German military historiography. In: Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (Eds.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Paderborn 2013, pp. 15–24, here: p. 18.
  7. ^ Daniel Hohrath : Warlike violence and military presence in the modern age. Selected Writings. On behalf of the Military History Research Office by Bernhard R. Kroener, Ralf Pröve, Bruno Thoss . In: Journal for Historical Research 36 (2009) 4, pp. 676–678, here: p. 676; Jost Dülffer : Bernhard R. Kroener, Warlike violence and military presence in the modern age. Selected writings . In: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 67 (2008) 2, pp. 491–493, here: p. 491.
  8. ↑ Christian Th. Müller, Matthias Rogg (ed.): This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday. Paderborn 2013, pp. 508-511.
  9. ↑ Bernd Sösemann (Ed.): The National Socialism and the German Society. Introduction and overview . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05617-X , p. 390.
  10. ↑ Imprint ( memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Museum of the Thirty Years War, accessed on March 6, 2014.
  11. ^ Rolf Wirtgen : Ninth award of the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences. In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde 72 (2008), H. 430, P. 174 ff.
  12. ^ War in History , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, accessed on March 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kroener, Bernhard R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallendar