Eckardt Opitz

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Eckardt Opitz (born December 29, 1938 in Bad Bevensen ) is a German officer ( lieutenant colonel i. G. a. D.) and historian .

Life

Opitz grew up in Nordheide. He passed his Abitur in Hamburg and then did military service in the Bundeswehr. He reached the rank of lieutenant in the reserve.

He then studied German , history (state examination) and comparative literature at the University of Hamburg , then history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He was a student of Walther Hubatsch and was with him at the Philosophical Faculty in 1968 with the dissertation Austria and Brandenburg in the Swedish-Polish War 1655-1660. Preparation and implementation of the campaigns to Denmark and Pomerania to become Dr. phil. PhD.

He was then reinstated and used as a troop officer ( captain ). Among other things, he was a lecturer at the officers' school and the parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 1971 to 1973 Opitz, himself a member of the SPD , was a consultant and adjutant to the then Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt . He retired in 1973 as Lieutenant Colonel i. G. off.

He was a member of the founding committees of the Bundeswehr universities in Hamburg and Munich . From 1974 to 2003 he was Professor of Modern History in the Pedagogy Department at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg-Jenfeld . In 1989 he founded the course in history. From 1999 he was Vice President of the Bundeswehr University. Before that, he was twice speaker of the Pedagogy Department and member of the Senate. His academic students include Michael Busch , Jörg Hillmann , Sven Lange and Peter Löw .

From 1981 to 1988 he was chairman of the study society for time problems in Bonn and editor of the journal Contributions to Political Education . He was also President of the Scientific Forum for International Security (WIFIS) in Hamburg.

In 1993 he became a lecturer and later tutor for history at the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation . From 1997 he published the Lauenburg Academy Colloquia and the Foundation's series of publications.

Opitz published military history , regional history and security policy writings in Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler . In particular, he is concerned with the history of Schleswig-Holstein .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Austria and Brandenburg in the Swedish-Polish war from 1655 to 1660. Preparation and implementation of the campaigns to Denmark and Pomerania (= military research, department of military history studies . Volume 10). Boldt, Boppard 1969, ISBN 3-7646-1530-3 .
  • Who are our treasure and wealth. 60 portraits from Schleswig-Holstein . Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1115-7 .
  • The Bernstorffs. A European family (= Small Schleswig-Holstein Books . Volume 51). Boyens, Heide 2001, ISBN 3-8042-0992-0 .

Editorships

  • With Klaus-Jürgen Müller : Military and Militarism in the Weimar Republic. Contributions to an international symposium at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg on May 5 and 6, 1977 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-7700-0519-8 .
  • Gerhard von Scharnhorst. On the nature and work of the Prussian army reform. A conference volume (= series of publications of the Scientific Forum for International Security . Volume 12). Edition Temmen , Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-86108-719-7 .
  • With Reinhard Scheiblich: In Otto von Bismarck's footsteps . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-89234-755-7 .
  • The year of revolution 1848 in the Duchy of Lauenburg and the neighboring territories (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 11). Rundum Verlag, Mölln 1999, ISBN 3-928866-16-8 .
  • War and Peace in the Duchy of Lauenburg and its neighboring territories from the Middle Ages to the end of the Cold War (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 11). Winkler, Bochum 2000, ISBN 3-930083-45-0 .
  • Young Science Forum of the Lauenburg Academy 1994–1999. Reports on a series of events by the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture (= series of publications by the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation . Volume 24). Winkler, Bochum 2000, ISBN 3-930083-38-8 .
  • 50 years of Inner Leadership. From Himmerod (Eifel) to Pristina (Kosovo). History, problems and perspectives of a leadership philosophy (= series of publications by the Scientific Forum for International Security . Volume 17). Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-776-6 .
  • Rulership and estates in selected territories of northern Germany from the Middle Ages to the 20th century (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 13). Winkler, Bochum 2001, ISBN 3-930083-76-0 .
  • Schleswig-Holstein. The country and its history in pictures, texts and documents . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8319-0084-1 .
  • Rise, rule and consequences of National Socialism in the Duchy of Lauenburg and in the neighboring regions (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 14). Winkler, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-930083-89-2 .
  • Duchy of Lauenburg. The country and its history. A manual . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-02060-5 .
  • With Jörg Hillmann: 1789–1989, 200 years of revolutions in Europe. An example of historical and political education in the armed forces (= small series of publications on military and naval history . Volume 5). Winkler, Bochum 2003, ISBN 3-89911-013-7 .
  • Maritime strategic concepts from the imperial striving for world power to out-of-area operations of the German Navy (= series of publications of the Scientific Forum for International Security . Volume 22). Edition Temmen, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-86108-049-4 .
  • Selected aspects of post-war history in the Duchy of Lauenburg and the neighboring territories (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 15). Winkler, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-89911-022-6 .
  • 50 years of the Bundeswehr - 50 years of officer training (= series of publications by the Scientific Forum for International Security . Volume 24). A contribution from the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-079-4 .
  • Askanier studies of the Lauenburg Academy (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 16). Winkler, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89911-132-3 .
  • The Duchy of Lauenburg in the mirror of literature (= Colloquium of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture . Volume 17). Winkler, Bochum 2011, ISBN 978-3-89911-181-1 .
  • Biographical lexicon of the Duchy of Lauenburg . Commissioned by the Duchy of Lauenburg , Husum, Husum 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-778-1 .

literature

  • Michael Busch , Jörg Hillmann (ed.): Nobility - clergy - military. Festschrift for Eckardt Opitz on his 60th birthday (= series of publications by the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation . Special volume). Winkler, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-930083-07-8 .
  • Michael Busch: Terra et Mars. Aspects of national and military history. Festschrift for Eckhardt Opitz on his 65th birthday . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-02061-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Krautwurm, Werner Tannhof: 40 years HSBwH / UniBwH / HSU: The University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in the mirror of the times (30) ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Helmut Schmidt University, accessed on August 17 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Eckardt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opitz, Eckhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Bevensen