Christian Th. Müller

Christian Th. Müller (* 1970 ) is a German historian . He is a private lecturer at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Müller did his military service as a non-commissioned officer in the National People's Army (NVA). He then studied modern and contemporary history , sociology and political science at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1990 to 1996 (MA 1996 with Konrad Canis ).

In 2000 he received a scholarship from the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture with Bernhard R. Kroener at the University of Potsdam with the dissertation Status and Mentality of NCOs for a time in the NVA. Investigations into everyday life and internal structure of a "socialist" army for Dr. phil. PhD. The work was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (3rd Prize) in 2002 and presented at the German Historians' Day in Halle (Saale).

From 2001 to 2003 he was a visiting scientist and research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) in Potsdam and from 2004 to 2009 research assistant at the “Theory and History of Violence” department at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS). In 2010 he completed his habilitation in modern history at the University of Potsdam and became a private lecturer . From 2013 to 2015 he represented the professorship for military history / cultural history of violence there. In 2016 he became a freelancer at the Berlin Cold War College. He researches u. a. on the Cold War , on modern military history and on military sociology .

He has been a member of the Military History Working Group since 1995 . His main topics there are military culture and soldier subculture. From 2006 to 2011 he was editor of the Aks newsletter, and of the military history portal since 2012.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• A thousand days with the "ashes". NCOs in the NVA. Investigations into everyday life and internal structure of a "socialist" army (= military history of the GDR , volume 6). Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-297-2 . (also dissertation)
• US troops and Soviet Army in Germany. Experiences, relationships, conflicts in comparison . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77193-3 . (plus habilitation)
• Beyond the battle of materials: the First World War as a war of movement . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-77870-3

Editing

• with Patrice G. Poutrus: Arrival - everyday life - departure. Migration and intercultural encounters in GDR society (= contemporary historical studies , volume 29). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-412-14605-6 .
• with Bernd Greiner , Dierk Walter : Heisse Kriege im Kalten Krieg (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 1). Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936096-61-3 .
• with Bernd Greiner, Dierk Walter: Crises in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 2). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-95-8 .
• with Bernd Greiner, Dierk Walter: Fear in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 3). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-213-4 .
• with Bernd Greiner, Claudia Weber : Economy in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War , Volume 4). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86854-225-7 .
• with Matthias Rogg : This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77657-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Th. Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christian Th. Müller  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christian Th. Müller at perlentaucher.de
• Christian Th. Müller at the University of Potsdam
• Profile of Christian Th. Müller at the Military History Working Group
• Author portrait Christian Th. Müller at Ch. Links Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Th. Müller: A thousand days with the ashes. NCOs in the NVA , 2003, p. XIII.
2. ↑ Hans-Hermann Hertle : Activity Report (2001–2003) ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Center for Contemporary Historical Research , Potsdam, p. 136.
3. ↑ Former employees , HIS, accessed on May 22, 2014.
4. ↑ Researchers ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Military History Working Group, accessed on May 22, 2014.