Frank Wernitz

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Frank Wernitz (* 1957 in Borås , Sweden ) is a German military historian who published a fundamental work on the Iron Cross . The museum employee has been the chairman of the German Army Research Association since 2012 .

Life

Wernitz first studied communication sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts (graduate designer). This was followed by a degree in modern and modern history, east and south-east European history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1993 he was at Hans Schmidt just there with the thesis "They have been blooded and behaved very well." British light troops in the army of Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig 1760–63. A contribution to the history of the little war in the 18th century for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2000 to 2016 he was head of the central personnel administration of the state museums and collections in Bavaria . Since then he has been a curator at the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt, where he is responsible for orders and decorations, graphics and documents.

Since 2012, Wernitz has been the successor to Rolf Wirtgen as chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde eV and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr reserve . He published u. a. in the military history contributions of the MGFA .

Wernitz's first work, The Prussian Free Troops in the Seven Years War, 1756–1763. Origin, Use, Effect (1994), is the only article by Podzun-Pallas-Verlag to be included in the Reader's Guide to Military History and is described by the renowned British military historian Peter H. Wilson as a concise introduction to the subject. His double volume on the Iron Cross , published by Verlag Militaria in 2013, is considered by experts to be one of the most important contributions to the award.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Prussian Free Corps in the Seven Years War, 1756–1763. Creation, use, effect . Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1994, ISBN 3-7909-0516-X .
  • The army of Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War, 1756–1763 . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 2002, ISBN 3-7909-0752-9 .
  • The Iron Cross. 1813 - 1870 - 1914. History and significance of an award (= catalogs of the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt . Vol. 11). With color photos by Georg Schnellnberger, 2 volumes, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902526-58-8 . (English edition 2013)
  • Volume 1: main volume
  • Volume 2: Typology [in collaboration with Volker Simons]

Contributions to edited volumes

  • The development of a royal idea - from the order cross to the finished image of the Iron Cross. A homage to Count Ferdinand von Einsiedel . In: Horst Remane , Sybille Fischer (ed.): The ironworks Lauchhammer under the Counts of Einsiedel. Festschrift 20 years of the Kunstgussmuseum Lauchhammer 2013 . Drei-Birken-Verlag, Freiberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-936980-39-4 , p. 231 ff.
  • "The soldier with the general is the same ...". A contribution to the genesis of the Iron Cross . In: Gerhard Bauer, Gorch Pieken , Matthias Rogg (Hrsg.): Bloody romanticism. 200 years of wars of liberation. Essays and catalog (= Forum MHM . Vol. 4). Volume 1: Essays . Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-037-6 , p. 122 ff.
  • The renewals of the Iron Cross in 1870 and 1914. Considerations on the practice of awarding a “German” badge of honor . In: Winfried Heinemann (Ed.): The Iron Cross. The history of a symbol through the ages (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 24). On behalf of the German Commission for Military History and the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Potsdam 2014, ISBN 978-3-941571-30-3 , p. 21 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter H. Wilson : Seven Years' War, 1756–1763: land campaigns . In: Charles Messenger (Ed.): Reader's Guide to Military History (= Reader's Guiides ). Routledge, London a. a. 2001, ISBN 1-57958-241-9 , p. 532.
  2. ↑ Winfried Heinemann : The Iron Cross. Introduction . In the S. (Ed.): The Iron Cross. The history of a symbol through the ages (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 24). On behalf of the German Commission for Military History and the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Potsdam 2014, ISBN 978-3-941571-30-3 , p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Wernitz, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Borås , Sweden