Dieter Krüger (historian)

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Dieter Krüger (born February 8, 1953 in Konstanz ) is a German contemporary historian and archivist . He worked at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) and teaches contemporary history as an adjunct professor at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Krüger studied history , political science , education and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1972 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1984 as a scholarship holder at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1977 he passed the first state examination for higher education. It was in 1981 when Gerd Hardach and Theo Schiller at the Department of History at the University of Marburg with a study of the social sciences in the empire to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1984 to 1986 he was State Archives referendar in Detmold. In 1986 he passed the archival state examination. From 1987 to 1993 he was head of department at the military archive department of the federal archive in Freiburg im Breisgau . There he was responsible for taking over, listing and using files of the Bundeswehr. In 1993/94 he was head of the Federal Archives Interim Archive in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten . For the Federal Archives , he led 1994 to 1996 the transfer of the former Berlin Document Center in the Federal Archives. Initial fears of American historians and associations that the transition would go hand in hand with poorer access to personal documents from the Third Reich did not come true. In 1997, Krüger switched to the so-called Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Potsdam as a research assistant . As a project manager, he was responsible for the history of the North Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Treaty Organization and was in charge of the series “Beginnings and Development of the Atlantic Alliance” of the former MGFA. Since 2014 he has headed the Deployment Department of the ZMSBw, which is responsible for the history of the Bundeswehr's foreign missions, their social science support, their documentation and the latest military history. Most recently, he held the title of Senior Scientific Director. He retired in October 2018.

After teaching positions (since 2005) at the Universities of Potsdam, Halle and Munich (Bundeswehr) , he completed his habilitation in contemporary history with a study on European integration at the University of Halle and became a private lecturer at the Institute for History there. Since his re- qualification he has been teaching at the professorship for military history / cultural history of violence ( Sönke Neitzel , formerly Bernhard R. Kroener ) at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam.

He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Point Alpha Foundation and a member of the Association of Historians in Germany .

Krüger published studies on the history of social science and social policy in the late Empire, the insurance and banking system after 1945, the rearmament of West Germany and the German secret services after 1945, European integration , the nuclear strategy , the North Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Treaty Organization, history and practice archiving and archiving law.

Fonts (in selection)

Monographs

  • Economists in Wilhelmine Germany (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 58). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-525-35717-6 (Dissertation University of Marburg 1981, entitled: German economists in politics and society of the late Empire 1900-1918 ).
  • The Blank Office. The difficult founding of the Federal Ministry of Defense (= individual publications on military history . Vol. 38). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-7930-0198-9 .
  • Security through integration? The economic and political cooperation of Western Europe 1947 to 1957/58 (= origin and problems of the Atlantic Alliance . Vol. 6). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56759-4 .
  • Burning gentian. The operational planning of NATO for Austria and Northern Italy 1951 to 1960 (= individual publications on military history . Vol. 46). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-7930-9626-9 .
  • In the abyss? The Age of Alliances: North Atlantic Alliance and Warsaw Pact 1947 to 1991 (= Point Alpha series . Vol. 1). Parzeller, Fulda 2013, ISBN 978-3-7900-0459-5 .
  • Hans Speidel and Ernst Jünger. Friendship and history politics under the sign of the world wars . Edited by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78567-1 .
  • The Stinnes Legien Agreement 1918–1924. Requirements, development, implementation and significance . Edited by Gesamtmetall - General Association of Employers' Associations of the Metal and Electrical Industry eV, Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2018.

Editorships / adaptations

  • (Ed.): Offices for the preparation of a West German defense contribution (= finding aids on the holdings of the Federal Archives . Vol. 40). BW 9, 2 volumes, Koblenz 1992.
  • (Ed. With Armin Wagner ): Conspiracy as a profession. German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War . Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-287-5 .
  • Vojtech Mastny and Gustav Schmidt: Cold War Confrontation Patterns. 1946 to 1956 (= origin and problems of the Atlantic alliance . Vol. 3). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, ed. with Norbert Wiggershaus , Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56732-2 .
  • (Ed. With Bernd Lemke , Heinz Rebhan, Wolfgang Schmidt ): The air force 1950 to 1970. Concept, structure, integration (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57973-4 .
  • (Ed. With Felix Schneider): The Alps in the Cold War. Historical space, strategy and security policy (= contributions to military history . Vol. 71). Commissioned by MGFA and the National Defense Academy , Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58817-0 .
  • (Ed. With Jan Hoffenaar ): Blueprints for Battle. Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948–1968 . English translation edited by David T. Zabecki , University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2012, ISBN 978-0-8131-3651-6 .
  • (Ed.): Fulda Gap battlefield. Strategies and operational plans of the alliances in the Cold War (= Point Alpha series of publications . Vol. 2). Parzeller, 3rd edition Fulda 2017, ISBN 978-3-7900-0486-1 .
  • (Ed. With Volker Bausch): Fulda Gap. Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances . (Partial translation by David Dorondo, Lanham et al.) Lexington Books, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vademecum of History , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 453.
  2. ^ Dieter Krüger: Preliminary remarks . In: ders .: Economists in Wilhelminian Germany . Göttingen 1983, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy