Christian Hartmann (historian)

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Christian Hartmann (born April 15, 1959 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian . He is a research fellow at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Live and act

Christian Hartmann grew up in Tübingen . In 1981 he worked in Kibbutz Tel Joseph (Israel). After completing his military service , he studied history , German literature and sport at the universities of Tübingen , Cologne and Freiburg and graduated in 1986 with the first state examination for teaching at a grammar school . In 1989 he was at Andreas Gruber Hill in Cologne with a dissertation about Colonel General Franz Halder Dr. phil. PhD .

Hartmann then worked from 1990 to 1991 at the Political Archives of the Foreign Office in Bonn; he worked there as a member of the international historians' commission for the publication of the "files on German foreign policy 1918–1945". In 1992 he was seconded to the Brandenburg Ministry for Science, Research and Culture in Potsdam for one year .

From 1993-2018 was Hartmann Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, where he, among others, from 1998 to 2012 as deputy editor of the Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History acted and the research project 1999-2009 Wehrmacht in the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 headed in whose The framework of his work Wehrmacht in the Eastern War , which was completed in 2009 with the anthology The German War in the East 1941–1944 . From March 2012 to May 2015 Hartmann was IfZ project manager for the scientific edition of Adolf Hitler's writing Mein Kampf .

From 2004 to 2009 he was also an external lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich . As a lieutenant colonel in the reserve , he is currently a lecturer at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 2016/17 he worked as a Strategic Advisor for the European Union Training Mission in Mali. Since February 2019 Hartmann has been Head of the Deployment Department at the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam.

In addition, Hartmann regularly advises historical films and documentaries, including a. War of the Century (GB 1999), Duell - Enemy at the Gates (D / F 2001), Der Untergang (D 2004), Sophie Scholl - The Last Days (D 2005), Napola - Elite für den Führer (D 2004) , Diary of a Camp Commandant (D 2011), Our Mothers, Our Fathers (D 2013) and The Book Thief (USA / GB 2014). He is also on the scientific advisory board of the television station History .

His academic focus is: military history , history of international relations and German and European history .

Awards

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Halder. Chief of Staff of Hitler 1938–1942. Schöningh, Paderborn 1991, ISBN 3-506-77484-0 (dissertation, University of Cologne, 1989); 2nd, expanded and updated edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76762-2 .
  • Criminal War - Criminal Wehrmacht? Reflections on the structure of the German Eastern Army , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 52 (2004), pp. 1–75.
  • with Johannes Hürter : The last 100 days of the Second World War. Droemer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-27356-X .
  • Wehrmacht in the Eastern War. Front and military hinterland 1941/42 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 75). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009; 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-70225-5 .
  • Operation Barbarossa. The German War in the East 1941–1945 (= Beck's Knowledge Series. Vol. 2714). Beck, Munich 2011, 2nd, improved edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-61226-8 (Romanian translation 2012, English translation 2013, paperback 2018, Polish translation 2014, Spanish translation 2018, Portuguese translation 2020).
  • (together with Magnus Brechtken et al.), The report of the Institute for Contemporary History on the second NPD prohibition proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 65 (2017), pp. 619–661.

As editor and editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Mein Kampf” shows that Hitler was not “weak”. Even if the Free State of Bavaria has just prevented a partial publication of Hitler's “Mein Kampf”, work on a large edition continues. A conversation with the project manager. In: Welt Online . April 2, 2012, accessed October 25, 2012; furthermore: Felix Bohr, Steffen Winter: “Expand the fuse”: The Munich Institute for Contemporary History is issuing a scientific edition of Hitler's “Mein Kampf” for the first time. The historian Christian Hartmann heads the controversial project. In: Der Spiegel . 21/2012 (May 21, 2012), p. 44, accessed on October 25, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg