Donald Abenheim

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Donald Abenheim (born April 9, 1953 in San Francisco ) is an American military historian . He is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School .

Life

Abenheim studied history and German literature; he earned an AB in German Studies (1975) and a Ph.D. in European History (1985) with the Scottish historian Gordon A. Craig at Stanford University in Stanford, California and an MA in German History at San José State University in San José, California, where he a. a. heard from Charles B. Burdick .

He was then a curator at the historic Presidio military base in San Francisco, California, archivist at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and "civil liaison officer " of the United States Army in Europe with the German Armed Forces (from 1982 to 1984). To this day he is concerned with civil-military cooperation between the two countries. In 1988 he became a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1988 to 2004 he was a visiting scholar and from 2004 to 2012 a research fellow there.

Since 1988 he has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, where he is currently Academic Associate in Strategic Studies and Associate Professor in National Security Affairs. Initially, he worked as an advisor to the US Army and US Navy and the Office of Net Assessment of the United States Department of Defense . In 1993 he founded the Center for Civil Military Relations (CCMR). For several years he was responsible for the Expanded International Military Education and Training (E-IMET) program. Abenheim also supervised several German theses that were published in the Monterey Studies series by Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag (by staff officers Uwe Hartmann and Sven Lange, among others ).

He is a member of the Clausewitz Society in Germany. His writings appeared in German and English. He gave interviews a. a. Newsweek , the International Herald Tribune , the Los Angeles Times and The Time .

reception

Its under the German title Bundeswehr und Tradition. The search for the valid legacy of the German soldier (1989) published by R. Oldenbourg Verlag is a standard work on the subject. It was prominently discussed in u. a. Foreign Affairs ( Fritz Stern ), Armed Forces & Society (Marshall M. Lee) and Archives for Social History ( Wilfried von Bredow ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Reforging the Iron Cross. The search for tradition in the West German armed forces . With a foreword by Gordon A. Craig , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1989, ISBN 0-691-05534-3 . (German: Bundeswehr and Tradition. The search for the valid legacy of the German soldier (= contributions to military history . Volume 27). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-486-55371-2 )
  • Soldier and politics transformed. German-American reflections on civil military relations in a new strategic environment . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937885-06-3 .
Contributions
  • The Democratic Civil-Military Relations of Austerity: Thoughts about the Past and the Present . In: Gerhard Kümmel , Bastian Giegerich (Ed.): The Armed Forces. Towards a Post-Interventionist Era? (= Series of publications by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Volume 14). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01286-1 , pp. 81-91.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Stern : Reforging The Iron Cross: The Search For Tradition In The West German Armed Forces (rec.). In: Foreign Affairs , Spring 1989, Vol. 68, No. 2, p. 197
  2. ↑ Marshall M. Lee: Reforging the Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the West German Armed Forces (rec.). In: Armed Forces & Society , 16 (2), pp. 312-314, doi : 10.1177 / 0095327X9001600211
  3. ^ Wilfried von Bredow : Bundeswehr and Tradition. The search for the valid legacy of the German soldier (Rez.). In: Archive for Social History , 1990, pp. 785–786.
personal data
SURNAME Abenheim, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco