Dieter H. Kollmer

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Dieter H. Kollmer (born June 17, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German staff officer ( lieutenant colonel ) and military historian .

Life

Kollmer attended the Müssenredder high school (Abitur 1983) in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel and the Lawton High School ( High School Diploma 1982) in Lawton , Oklahoma. After graduation he joined in 1984 as an officer cadet of the army in the Bundeswehr one. Following his military training and various assignments in the army telecommunications troops in Neumünster and Buxtehude and as a youth officer , he studied history and economics at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , the University of Basel and the Technical University of Dresden from 1989 to 1998 . During his studies (1990) Kollmer became a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg , the oldest still existing student association at Freiburg University. In 1998 he worked with Ulrich Kluge at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a dissertation on the procurement of armaments during the development phase of the Bundeswehr. The HS 30 armored personnel carrier as a case study, 1953–1961 for Dr. phil. PhD.

After completing his studies, he was employed as the company commander of the 2nd Telecommunications Battalion 430 in Blankenfelde-Mahlow . In the spring of 2000 he completed the staff officer course (SOL) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. From 2000 to 2005, Kollmer taught as a lecturer in military history at the Army Officers School (OSH) in Dresden . Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant in the "Mission Support Module" at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Potsdam, together with Bernhard Chiari, further developing the series of guides to history and also completed training for senior American staff officers (Joint Professional Military Education) in the second half of the year 2007 at the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) in Norfolk, Virginia (USA). Since summer 2007 he has also been the editor of the military history magazine (MGZ), the largest military history journal in German-speaking countries.

From 2008 to 2010 Kollmer was a consultant for military history and tradition in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS I 4) in Bonn. In the summer of 2010 he took over the management of the "Historical Education" (AIF I) department at MGFA and at the beginning of 2013 he was finally project manager "History of the Bundeswehr" in the research area "German Military History from 1945" at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) . His main research interests are economic and military history, German-Danish relations , the history of armaments , the Cold War and officer training .

Kollmer has been teaching at the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam since 2011 . Since summer 2016 he has also been teaching as an external lecturer at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich at the Studium plus central institute. In September 2017, the then Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil appointed Kollmer to the Military History Advisory Board of the Science Commission at the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport . In 2018 he was also appointed to the advisory board of the Center for Koldkrigsstudier at the Syddansk Universitet Odense .

He is u. a. Member of the German Commission for Military History within the International Commission for Military History , in the Military History Working Group in the Clausewitz Society and in the Society for Security Policy . since

Kollmer is married and currently lives in Potsdam .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Defense procurement in the development phase of the Bundeswehr. The HS 30 armored personnel carrier as a case study, 1953–1961 (= contributions to economic and social history , no. 93). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08077-5 .
  • with Helmut R. Hammerich , Martin Rink , Rudolf J. Schlaffer : Das Heer 1950–1970. Conception, organization, installation (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 3), Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 .

Editorships

  • with Bernhard Chiari : Democratic Republic of the Congo (= guide to history ). Schöningh, Paderborn, 3 editions 2006–2008, ISBN 978-3-506-75745-6 .
  • with Andreas Mückusch: Horn of Africa (= guide to history ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76397-6 .
  • with Bernhard Chiari: Sudan (= guide to history ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76396-9 .
  • with Bernhard Chiari: Middle East (= guide to history ). 2nd edition, Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76759-2 .
  • “Think from the point of view of action!”. Significance and use of military history at the beginning of the 21st century (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 22). On behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, ZMSBw, Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-941571-26-6 .
  • Military-industrial complex? Armaments in Europe and North America after World War II . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-7930-9808-9 .
  • with Torsten Konopka , Martin Rink: Central Africa (= guide to history ). On behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in cooperation with the National Defense Academy of the Austrian Armed Forces. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78470-4 .
  • with Dorothee Hochstetter : Bundestag Committee on Defense . The Committee for European Security Issues / Committee on Defense: July 1955 to January 1956. On behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (= The Bundestag Committee on Defense and its predecessors, Volume 4), Potsdam, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978- 3-7700-1703-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caroline Buchheim: Festive birthday of a corps - The Corps Rhenania is the oldest student association in the city and is celebrating its 200th foundation festival this weekend . In: Badische Zeitung , June 8, 2012, p. 28; Freiburg Rhenanen (Ed.): Chronicle of the Freiburg Rhenanen 1962–2002. With the biographies of all corps brothers 1919–2004 . With a foreword by Klaus Schinzing, oOuJ (around 2004), p. 396.
  2. ↑ Dieter H. Kollmer: Armaments procurement in the development phase of the Bundeswehr . Stuttgart 2002, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Directory of lectures and lecturers: Dr. Dieter H. Kollmer , uni-potsdam.de, accessed on January 31, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lecturers Studium plus ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2018 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. , unibw.de, accessed on January 3, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unibw.de
  5. ^ Dieter H. Kollmer on the homepage of the ZMSBw , zmsbw.de, accessed on January 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dieter H. Kollmer on the ZMSBw homepage , zmsbw.de, accessed on April 20, 2020.
  7. ^ Dieter H. Kollmer on the homepage of the ZMSBw , zmsbw.de, accessed on January 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ Kollmer, Dieter H., Dr. phil. , portal-militaergeschichte.de, accessed on January 31, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dieter H. Kollmer: What happens when a state funds its armed forces according to the budget situation - A German retrospective . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2013 . Volume 9, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9810794-9-4 , p. 161 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kollmer, Dieter H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian and lieutenant colonel
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg