Franz W. Seidler

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Franz Wilhelm Seidler (born March 2, 1933 in Wigstadtl , Czechoslovakia ) is a German historian , retired university professor and author. Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in the 1970s , he emerged with historical revisionist positions and published in right-wing extremist publishers.

Life

Origin and professional career

Seidler comes from Sudeten Silesia ; his father was a farmer. It was named after the emperors Franz Joseph I and Wilhelm II . Until he was expelled, Seidler attended the elementary school in Wigstadtl and the Gregor Mendel high school in Neutitschein ; After 1945 he went to school in Memmingen, Bavaria , where he graduated from high school in 1951 .

He then studied German , English and history from 1951 to 1961 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the universities in Cambridge and Paris . He has heard lectures from Wolfgang Clemen , Franz Schnabel and Johannes Spörl, among others . In 1956 he was with the linguist Otto Basler at the Philosophical Faculty of the LMU Munich with the 1953/54 dissertation The History of the Word Revolution. A contribution to revolutionary research for Dr. phil. PhD. He subsequently became a student trainee and graduate professor in Baden-Württemberg; At times he worked as a high school teacher in Stuttgart .

From 1959 to 1963 he was deputy director of the Federal Armed Forces School in Cologne, then from 1963 to 1967 a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense , Administration and Law Department and finally from 1968 to 1973 as scientific director head of the scientific group at the Army Officer School III in Munich. In 1972 he graduated from the NATO Defense College in Rome. From 1973 until his retirement in 1998 he was a professor for modern history , especially social and military history , in the business administration department of the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich in Neubiberg as part of his university degree with “Educational and Social Components” (EGA) .

Seidler dealt in particular with personnel problems of the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr , the military retinue of the Wehrmacht, international law problems in the Second World War (e.g. partisan war and war crimes ) as well as disarmament issues after the Second World War. As a professor, he published a number of articles in military specialist publications and occasionally in scientific journals. a. on the Todt organization and on the subject of desertion .

Social activities

After Seidler's controversial publications in the FAZ ( were deserters resistance fighters? ), The political scientist Georg Geismann , formerly dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Bundeswehr University , took him under human protection in the journal for political science as follows: I “would like [...] to be very clear Take sides "not only for the Bundeswehr University, but" also in favor of Mr. Seidler, not as an author, but as a citizen. "And further:" Some of those who are noisily outraged about him expect disciplinary action or from the Defense Minister even a teaching ban. With this authoritarian mentality, they are very close to the object of their outrage, regardless of whether they are draped in “green” or “red”. “In terms of content, however, Geismann criticized the history professor and warned in the FAZ: If he extends his opinion to include teaching, then that would be a “scandal” for the Bundeswehr University, since Seidler advocates the “duty of unconditional obedience” in his publications. In 1996/97, Seidler was a co-founder of the non-partisan association “ Vote of the Majority ”.

A small question from the parliamentary group Die Grünen in the German Bundestag (1998) regarding the “positions of a lecturer at the Bundeswehrhochschule Munich and revisionism” was answered by the federal government to the effect that, in case of doubt, reference is made to the freedom of science , individual statements are not “criminal Relevance ”and a right-wing extremist attitude of the professor could not be concluded on the basis of the available evidence.

Honors

In 1978 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon "for [his] services to the education system of the Bundeswehr and the integration of the Bundeswehr into society".

Seidler received the Dr. Walter Eckhardt Award for Contemporary History Research (1998) from the Contemporary History Research Center Ingolstadt and is the recipient of the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Science (2004) of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft .

2008 published on the occasion of his 75th birthday in right-wing publishing house "Pour le Mérite" one of Alfred Schickel published publishing Festschrift entitled No dogma! No ban! No taboo! History belongs to the historian. Parliament and the judiciary may be silent with contributions from right-wing authors of the various varieties.

Range of professional contributions

He was repeatedly called in by the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as an expert. In 2002, Seidler also attended a hearing of the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag on the question of the repeal of the Nazi injustice judgments against deserters. He is quoted as saying: desertion was "largely committed in unity with other offenses and crimes that were before or that followed".

In 1998 he made a critical contribution to the Wehrmacht exhibition regarding the anthology Wehrmachtsverbrechen edited by Heribert Prantl at Hoffmann and Campe , a German controversy . At the same time, on Lebensborn , an essay was published by Propylaen Verlag in the anthology The Shadows of the Past, edited by Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse and Rainer Zitelmann . Impulses for the historicization of National Socialism . In 2005 a contribution to Fritz Todt was published, expanded to include motorway construction, published by the Research Center for Roads and Transportation .

On the one hand, Seidler appeared as a guest author in reputable newspapers and magazines ( Die Welt (1995), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1995/96) and Focus (1997/2000)) from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the 2000s, and his letters to the editor were published until in the 2000s printed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the FAZ. On the other hand, from the 1990s onwards, he published articles in the German military magazine , which was classified as right-wing extremist by the federal government by 2006 at the latest, and stood by her and first! , also from Dietmar Munier , are available as interview partners. During this time he was also interviewed several times for Gerhard Frey's national newspaper or in conversation with the publicist Michael Vogt . He also published in the fraternity papers published by the Deutsche Burschenschaft .

Some of Seidler's book publications were published by right-wing extremist publishers such as Pour le Mérite or Bublies . In addition, publications by right-wing extremist mail order companies are sold ( Buchdienst Kaden and Deutscher Buchdienst , Nation und Wissen, Kopp Verlag ). Although a book was published in such a place ( Vowinckel Verlag ) as early as 1977 , it has only been here since his retirement in the late 1990s.

He has been a regular guest at right-wing to right-wing extremist events and the like since the 2000s. a. the Society for Free Journalism , the Contemporary History Research Center Ingolstadt and the State and Economic Political Society as well as the fraternities Danubia Munich and Germania Hamburg and the Academic Holiday Association Rugia Karlsbad. For example, before a fraternity lecture in Dresden (1998) he was expressly warned by the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) about right-wing extremist activities there, which Seidler deliberately ignored.

Professional and media reception

Seidler became known in particular through a biographical work on Fritz Todt, former Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition , which is described in research on the one hand as a “ standard work ”, but also as “inadequate”. Some of Seidler's contributions from the 1970s to 1990s were reviewed in reputable specialist media. However, by the end of the 1980s at the latest, he was sometimes attested to a lack of distance and a lack of source criticism. It was also said that he was ignoring recent Nazi research . By the late 1990s at the latest and with his switch to right-wing extremist and historical revisionist publishers, an appreciation can only be established in this part of the political spectrum.

  • His 1991 work The Military Jurisdiction of the German Wehrmacht 1939-1945 have "apologetic traits". In some cases, however, it concerns "important aspects and necessary detailed corrections", according to Nazi researcher Detlef Garbe . According to the President of the Marburg Regional Court a. D. Otfried Keller (FAZ) had Seidler “researched and worked on a sub-area of ​​the Wehrmacht maintenance without prejudice”, but did not undertake a “full assessment of the Wehrmacht jurisdiction in the Second World War”. The reviewer missed bundled expertise as a “historian, lawyer and soldier” alike.
  • In 1993 the writing Fahnenflucht appeared . According to the historian Reinhold Brender (FAZ), the book is “useful” because it “takes a look at different armies”, but it does not answer all questions and “would have gained in value” if the author had analyzed more than described. In letters to the editor that also appeared in the FAZ, Otto Kranzbühler (retired naval judge and defender of Karl Dönitz at the Nuremberg trials) and Jürgen Schreiber (retired major general and holder of the Knight's Cross) sided with Seidler's theses. According to Géza Pálffy , the book is “not very productive” for the early modern period . The historian Maria Fritsche criticized the fact that Seidler "unreflectively adopted the terminology of the military power funnels" and thus "contributed to the consolidation of enemy images and prejudices against deserters". In 1999, the military historian Benjamin Ziemann came to the conclusion that Seidler had "provided the only comprehensive account of the history of desertion in the Wehrmacht to date", but that he violated "elementary standards of contemporary historical scientific work", "which resulted in the consistent encountered tendency of a subsequent defamation and criminalization of deserters ”lead.
  • In 1995 collaboration appeared , 1939–1945 . While the Hungarian-Swiss military historian Peter Gosztony spoke of a “pioneering work”, although Seidler did not understand how to properly evaluate some historical events, the cultural scientist Klaus Theweleit came to a different conclusion: Seidler's argument was “the 'collaboration' with Hitler's Troops not only become a defensible cause, they become a good one, they become the only possible one for all Norwegians, Danes, French or Ukrainians who already thought 'European' at that time. "The political scientist Kurt Sontheimer read Seidler's" Understanding for Collaborators " Out. The cultural sociologist Detlef Pollack , who spoke of an "assumption", contradicted this .
  • The Eastern European historian Dittmar Dahlmann noted that the double volume Verbrechen an der Wehrmacht (1998/2000) was ultimately not scientifically advanced and that a “political thrust [] becomes too clear” for the author. Christoph Rass , modern historian, remarked that Seidler “followed the patterns of Nazi propaganda with remarkable clarity by taking up the […] thesis of the Red Army's planned illegal warfare and attempting to prove it. The files ultimately served to justify Hitler's war of extermination . ”Although there was“ no doubt about the substance of the [described] cases […] ”, Nazi researchers Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Peter Lieb and Dieter Pohl Seidler held it up take unchecked “information from unscientific works” and give “such a right-wing extremist propaganda invention the appearance of scientific seriousness”. In addition, Hürter came to the conclusion in the FAZ that the author had already "finally bid farewell to serious science in the foreword to the Red Army's atrocities . He stylizes himself as an upright enlightener who is solely committed to the truth and is persecuted by the journalistic “left-wing cartel”, “commercial historians” and bullying colleagues. In doing so, Seidler reveals himself through numerous references to the motives that drive his research. ”Seidler draws a“ embellished picture ”, for example ignoring the commissar's order and the martial law decree. Ultimately, he is only interested in an "answer" to the Wehrmacht exhibition at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
  • In Die Wehrmacht im Partisanenkrieg (1999), Seidler considers the partisan war solely in terms of military and - in its interpretation - of international law. According to Alexander Brakel , he portrayed even the most cruel measures taken by the Germans merely as a reaction to the causal behavior of the partisans . The military historian Sönke Neitzel summed up that Seidler always endeavored “to let the Wehrmacht appear in the most positive light possible and to weaken the criminal character of the fight against partisans in an unconvincing way”.
  • His book The Führer Headquarters , published in 2000 with Dieter Zeigert , was praised by Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse , so the Führer Headquarters are well documented. The work impresses with its "clarity and wealth of facts". According to Jörg Friedrich (FAZ) "[the book] is overflowing with bizarre details about Hitler's leadership".
  • In 2000 Phantom Alpenfestung appeared? The secret blueprints of the Todt Organization . Albert A. Feiber commented in the FAZ that the text was "on the border between naive trivialization and uncritical adoption of the National Socialist perspective". In general, it should be noted that Seidler has been publishing "one book after the other" since his retirement, with which he "had long since left serious history".
  • The collection of articles War Crimes in Europe and the Middle East in the 20th Century was published in 2002 by Seidler and Alfred M. de Zayas . Christian Hartmann assessed them in the FAZ as largely deficient and as unscientific in parts. He asked whether a book on Europe and the Middle East "should be opened with an article about the concentration camps in the Boer War" and why a section on the Barbarossa martial law decree, which "most strongly influenced" the behavior of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, was missing. While "small and minute crimes by the Allies" were listed in great detail, "such large German crime complexes as the massacres of the Einsatzgruppen and the unrestricted partisan war in the Soviet Union" remained underexposed. Israeli violations of international law are presented in all its breadth, the book is silent on Palestinian terrorism. In the article on the partisan war, Hitler's directive from 1941 that the war offers "the opportunity to exterminate what is against us" is missing. The representation of the commissioner's order is reduced "to the omissions [accused] before the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal". More recent literature on the cooperation between the Wehrmacht, SS and police in the murder of prisoners of war is not taken into account.

The NS researcher Insa Meinen drew the arc from "unproven" claims of Seidler in the early publication Prostitution, Homosexualität, Selbstvermutungselung (1977) to more recent publications that she rated as "historical revisionist". For Regina Mühlhäuser , Seidler has adopted the "Wehrmacht perspective" on the subject. He does "no critical reappraisal". Seidler has been publishing "one book after the other" since his retirement, as Albert A. Feiber (curator of the Obersalzberg documentation) noted, but has meanwhile "long since left serious historical studies". Scholars and journalists locate him and his contemporary journalism in the politically right-wing spectrum, but make different assignments depending on the focus of work and the period under consideration: Seidler is described as value conservative and right-wing conservative , perceived as a representative of the New Right and as "slipped into the right-wing extremist spectrum [ ] ”Or as“ active for years in right-wing extremist contexts [] ”.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • with Rolf Buchner, Hermann Schmidt: Unity in law and freedom. A textbook for social studies . R. Müller, Cologne 1967.
  • The Free State of Bavaria. Outline of its development and its problems . Lurz, Munich 1969.
  • with Helmut Reindl: Conscription. Documentation on questions of general conscription, conscientious objection and justice in the military (= history and state . Vol. 154/155). Olzog, Munich a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-7892-7032-6 .
  • Prostitution, homosexuality, self-mutilation. Problems of the German medical management 1939–1945 . Vowinckel, Neckargemünd 1977, ISBN 3-87879-122-4 .
  • Women to arms? Sutlers, helpers, soldiers . Defense and knowledge, Koblenz u. a. 1978, ISBN 3-8033-0265-X .
  • with Helmut Reindl: military service, community service . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1979.
  • Lightning girl. The story of the helpers of the German Wehrmacht in World War II . Defense and knowledge, Koblenz u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-8033-0288-9 .
  • War or Peace. Possibilities and limits of security policy. An introduction (= Bernard & Graefe current series . Vol. 9). Bernard and Graefe, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7637-5308-7 .
  • The military in the cartoon. Imperial Army, Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, Bundeswehr and National People's Army in the mirror of the press illustrators . Bernard and Graefe, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-5401-6 .
  • Peacekeeping . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1983.
  • Conscription and conscientious objection . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1984.
  • Fritz Todt. Builder of the 3rd Reich . Herbig, Munich a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-7766-1446-3 .
  • The Todt Organization. Building for the state and the armed forces, 1938–1945 . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1987, ISBN 3-7637-5842-9 .
  • "German Volkssturm". The last contingent in 1944, 45 . Herbig, Munich a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-7766-1608-3 .
  • The military jurisdiction of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. Jurisprudence and the penal system. Tables . Herbig, Munich a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-7766-1706-3 .
  • Desertion. The soldier between oath and conscience . Herbig, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-7766-1789-6 .
  • The collaboration, 1939–1945 . Herbig, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-7766-1908-2 .
  • The Wehrmacht in the partisan war. Military and international law statements on warfare in the east . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 1999, ISBN 3-932381-04-1 .
  • Phantom Alpine Fortress? The secret blueprints of the Todt Organization . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2000, ISBN 3-932381-10-6 .
  • with Dieter Zeigert: The Führer Headquarters. Facilities and planning in World War II . Herbig, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7766-2154-0 .
  • Ex-Red Army soldiers against Stalin. Eastern European volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Arndt-Verlag, Kiel 2004, ISBN 3-88741-263-X .
  • Avant-garde for Europe. Foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2004, ISBN 3-932381-26-2 .
  • Winning justice. The concentration camp trials of the allied occupying powers 1945–50 . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2006, ISBN 978-3-932381-31-7 .
  • The right in the hand of the winner. The 13 Nuremberg Trials 1945–1949 . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2007, ISBN 978-3-932381-38-6 .
  • Guilty! The allied victorious trials against soldiers, police officers and civilians. Flier trials, Malmedy trials, Oradour trials, Shanghai trials . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2008, ISBN 978-3-932381-49-2 .
  • German victims. Allied perpetrators 1945 . Pour le Mérite Verlag, Selent 2013, ISBN 978-3-932381-66-9 .

Editorships

Articles in professional journals

  • The desertion in the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War . In: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 22 (1978) pp. 23–42.
  • L'Organisation Todt . In: Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et des conflits contemporains 34 (1984) 134, p. 33 ff.
  • The National Socialist Motor Corps and the Todt Organization in World War II. The development of the NSKK until 1939 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 32 (1984) 4, pp. 625–636.
  • Opinion on Georg Geismann “'Command is command' - dealing with the Nazi past” (ZPol 3/96) . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 7 (1997), pp. 79–83.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e See information on the origin, his professional beginnings and awards in a laudation from the founder of the historical revisionist contemporary history research center Ingolstadt (ZFI): Alfred Schickel : Laudation to Franz W. Seidler. Culture Prize for Science . In: Sudetenland. Europäische Kulturzeitschrift 2/2004, pp. 193–196, here: p. 194.
  2. ↑ a b c d See curriculum vitae: Franz W. Seidler: The history of the word revolution. A contribution to revolution research . Göppingen 1955, no p.
  3. ^ Franz W. Seidler: Foreword . In: The History of the Word Revolution. A contribution to revolution research . Göppingen 1955, pp. 3–5, here: p. 3.
  4. ↑ Georg Geismann : "Command is command". How to deal with the Nazi past . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 6 (1996), pp. 601–622, here: p. 602.
  5. ↑ Georg Geismann : Inimitable private opinion . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 21, 1996, No. 69, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Annelie Buntenbach, Angelika Beer, Antje Hermenau, other MPs and the parliamentary group ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS - Printed matter 13/10585 - Positions of a lecturer at the Bundeswehr University Munich and revisionism. German Bundestag, printed matter 13/10802, May 26, 1998, pp. 2-4.
  7. ↑ a b See information on the origin, his professional beginnings and awards in a laudation by the founder of the historical revisionist contemporary history research center Ingolstadt (ZFI): Alfred Schickel : Laudation to Franz W. Seidler. Culture Prize for Science . In: Sudetenland. Europäische Kulturzeitschrift 2/2004, pp. 193–196, here: p. 196.
  8. ↑ No dogma! No ban! No taboo! History belongs to the historian. Parliament and the judiciary may be silent. Information from the publisher's report. In: dnb.de. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Karin Nink : Wehrmacht justice is highly regarded by the CDU. In: the daily newspaper , November 30, 1995, p. 2.
  10. ↑ German Bundestag, 14. term, Legal Committee, the sixth protocol of the 126th session, 24 April 2002 public hearing on the application by "lifting of Nazi injustice sentences against deserters", page 23, see lsvd.de .
  11. ↑ Stefan Lembke: Review of: Heribert Prantl (Ed.): Wehrmachtsverbrechen. Hamburg 1997. In: Portal for Political Science . January 1, 2006, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Volker Zastrow : Against legends and taboos. Contributions to the historicization of National Socialism . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 23, 1990, p. 10.
  13. ↑ Reiner Ruppmann: Review of: Research Center for Roads and Transport (Ed.): The Autobahn. From the idea to reality. Vienna 2005 , in: H-Soz-u-Kult , February 13, 2006.
  14. ↑ Franz W. Seidler: Who heroizes deserters, endangers conscription, in: Die Welt, November 28, 1995; Or else: tools of the regime or far from the influence of the party? The judgment practice of the Wehrmacht courts in World War II, in: FAZ, March 14, 1995, p. 10; ders .: Were deserters resistance fighters ?, in: FAZ, March 5, 1996, p. 12; ders .: General condemnation denigrates individual, in: Focus 10/1997, p. 82; ders .: Withdraw the Wehrmacht exhibition if necessary, in: Focus, 6/2000, p. 68
  15. ^ Franz W. Seidler: Thank God no muzzle, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 23, 2003, p. N1; ders .: Eiskalt denied the genocide, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 3, 2000, p. 13; ders .: Historical analysis makes people exchangeable, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 20, 1999, p. 37; ders .: Foreign volunteers in the Waffen-SS, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 20, 1997, p. 18; ders .: Comprehensive rehabilitation for religious conscientious objectors, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 25, 1996, p. 11; ders .: White flags as a sign of powerlessness, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 22, 1995, p. 11; ders .: The reasons are suppressed, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 26, 1994, p. 907 [sic!]; ders .: Safe accommodation for the final fighter . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 26, 2001, No. 48, p. 10; ders .: No book of legends . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 4, 2003, No. 282, p. 40; ders .: Conservative Patriots and Lafontaine . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 13, 2005, No. 187, p. 6.
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  17. ↑ Andreas Speit : Nice friends . In: taz . No. 7091 , June 30, 2003, p. 21 ( taz.de [accessed on November 14, 2019]).
  18. ^ Franz W. Seidler: New form of political censorship . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 1, 1998, No. 77, p. 12.
  19. ↑ Enrico Syring: Most convictions in the Waffen-SS . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 26, 1992, p. ???.
  20. ↑ Helmut Maier: Stolen from responsibility? "Basic research" as a clean bill for armaments research at the [KWI] for metal research before and after 1945 . In: Werner Lorenz, Torsten Meyer (Hrsg.): Technology and Responsibility in National Socialism (= Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment . Vol. 25). Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1407-5 , p. 51.
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  24. ^ A b Klaus Megerle : The Organization Todt. Building for the State and the Wehrmacht 1938–1945 by Franz W. Seidler . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 30 (1989) 2, p. 366
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  27. ^ Otfried Keller: No system of arbitrariness. German military jurisdiction in World War II . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 5, 1992, p. 9.
  28. ↑ Reinhold Brender: In every army. A book about desertion . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 17, 1993, No. 293, p. 13.
  29. ↑ Otto Kranzbühler : Even criminal veterans . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 9, 1995, No. 234, p. 11.
  30. ↑ Jürgen Schreiber : The image of the blood judge should be preserved . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 2, 1995, No. 229, p. 14.
  31. ^ Géza Pálffy : The Viennese court and the Hungarian estates in the 16th century . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 109 (2001), pp. 346–381, here: p. 349.
  32. ^ Maria Fritsche : Withdrawals. Austrian deserters and self-mutilators in the German Wehrmacht . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-205-77181-8 , p. 28.
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  34. ^ Peter Gosztony: Franz W. Seidler: Die Kollaboration, 1939-1945 . In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift 163 (1997) 10, p. 36.
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personal data
SURNAME Seidler, Franz W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidler, Franz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigstadtl, county Opava , Moravia