Christian Zentner

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Christian Zentner (* 1938 ) is a German historian , journalist and non-fiction author. The son of the publicist Kurt Zentner studied social sciences and received his doctorate in 1966 with Clemens August Andreae at the University of Munich with a study on Georg Leber and his importance for the German trade union movement and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In the 1970s he was editor-in-chief of the magazine series Das III , published by John Jahr Verlag in Hamburg . Reich and the III. World war . After his father's death in 1974, he continued his series of books on the “ Third Reich ” and World War II. The historian Harald Steffahn (1930–2018) worked on Zentner's illustrated history of the Adenauer era (1984).

Fonts (selection)

  • Georg Leber's behavior is analyzed under the aspect of its power-political significance for the German trade union movement and the Social Democratic Party of Germany . V. Hase u. Koehler, Mainz 1966 (including dissertation, University of Munich).
  • The wars of the postwar period. An illustrated history of military conflicts since 1945. Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1969.
  • Germany 1870 until today. Pictures and documents . Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-517-00006-X .
  • Hundreds of illustrated world history . Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-517-00402-2 .
  • History guide in color. World history in pictures, dates, facts. German Book Association, Berlin 1980.
  • Battle for England. The bombing of Coventry on 14./15. November 1940. Data, pictures, documents . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-548-33053-3 .
  • Illustrated history of the Third Reich . Completely revised edition. Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-517-00795-1 .
  • Illustrated history of World War II . Completely revised edition. Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-517-00762-5 .
  • The Nuremberg Trial. Documentation, pictures, time tables . Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7735-2513-3 .
  • Editor with Friedemann Needy : The Great Lexicon of the Third Reich. Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-517-00834-6 .
  • Great history of the Third Reich and the Second World War (10 volumes). Naturalis-Verlag, Munich 1989.
  • Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. An annotated selection. 7th edition. List, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3471665336 .
  • The big book of the Olympic Games . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7679-0460-8 .
  • Adolf Hitler. Chronicle 1889–1945. Rise and fall . Otus, St. Gallen 2005, ISBN 3-907194-15-2 .
  • Chronicle of World War II . Otus, St. Gallen 2007, ISBN 978-3907200568 .
  • Zentner's illustrated chronicle - German automobiles from 1945 to today. Otus, St. Gallen 2007, ISBN 978-3907200537 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the afterword of his dissertation on p. 221 he writes: "I have to thank my esteemed Professor Dr. Clemens-August Andreae, at whose suggestion and with whose support the work came about".
  2. ↑ Immediately frivolous. The "III. World War" is here. The magazine of the Hamburger Jahr publishing house is offered at the kiosks, a continuation of the controversial series "Das III. Reich" . In: Der Spiegel . September 6, 1976.
  3. ↑ On the death of Kurt Zentner . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 18, 1974.
personal data
SURNAME Hundredweight, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938