Ernst-Heinrich Schmidt

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Ernst-Heinrich Schmidt (* 1937 in Hagen ) is a German officer ( retired lieutenant colonel ) and historian . He was the director of the Defense History Museum (WGM) in Rastatt and the Margravial Badische Museums and Collections .

Life

Schmidt joined the armed forces after graduating from high school in 1959 and became a professional soldier. He initially served as a troop officer. From 1970 he studied history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1978 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. For his doctorate he received the best price in the army.

From 1978/79 to 1987 he was director of the Defense History Museum (WGM) in Rastatt. In 1981 he was responsible for the basic concept of the special exhibition "German Jewish Soldiers 1914-1945". From 1987 to 1993 he acted as a representative for the museum system of the Bundeswehr in the Military History Research Office . Schmidt was responsible for the German contribution to the El Alamein War Museum in Egypt. From 1993 to 1995 he was director of the Margravial Badische Museums and Collections.

Schmidt was u. a. Member of the scientific advisory board of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst . From 2004 to 2007 he was the first chairman of the German Society for Military Music . In 2012 he was curator of the exhibition “Military Music in Baden. At the time of the colorful skirt until 1914 ”at the WGM.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

monograph

  • Home Army and Revolution 1918. The military powers in the home area between October reform and November revolution (= contributions to military and war history . Vol. 23). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-06060-6 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Fortification art in the museum landscape . In: Volker Schmidtchen (Ed.): Research, Preserve, Maintain, Use. How to deal with defense architecture. Wesel 1981 - Wesel 1991. 10 years of the German Society for Fortress Research e. V. (= publication series fortress research . Vol. 10) German Society for Fortress Research , Wesel 1991, ISBN 3-923279-00-9 , p. 11 ff.
  • Moltke in the pictorial representation . In: Roland G. Foerster (Ed.): Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke. Significance and effect (= contributions to military history . Vol. 33). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-486-55900-1 , p. 177 ff.
  • On the genesis of concentric operations with separate armies in the age of the outgoing Ancien Régime, the French Revolution and Napoleon . In: Hans-Martin Ottmer, Heiger Ostertag (Hrsg.): Selected operations and their military-historical bases (= operational thinking and acting in German armed forces . 4). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Mittler, Herford et al. 1993, ISBN 3-8132-0371-9 , p. 51 ff.
  • Zündorfer Waldmann: The Fate of German Frontline Fighters of Jewish Origin and Belief and Their Families 1914–1945 . In: Military History Research Office (ed.): German Jewish soldiers, 1914–1945. [Catalog for the traveling exhibition of the Military History Research Office] . On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defense, 3rd, expanded and revised edition, Mittler, Herford u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-8132-0277-1 , p. 177 ff.
  • The redesign of the Egyptian Military Museum on the Alainein battlefield . In: Hans-Martin Hinz (ed.): The war and its museums . For the German Historical Museum, Campus, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35838-7 , p. 163 ff.
  • Rommel without a myth in the memorial . In: House of History Baden-Württemberg in connection with the state capital Stuttgart (ed.): Erwin Rommel. History and Myth (= Stuttgart Symposium . Vol. 13). Braun, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-7650-8540-6 , p. 174 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Martin Hinz (ed.): The war and its museums . Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 230.
  2. ↑ Military History Research Office (ed.): German Jewish soldiers, 1914–1945 . Herford 1987, p. 268.
  3. ^ House of History Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Erwin Rommel. History and myth . Karlsruhe 2009, p. 261.
  4. ↑ rw: Time of the colorful skirt brought to life . In: Badisches Tagblatt , September 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ernst-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen