Günther Glaser (historian)

Günther Glaser (2009)

Günther Glaser (born December 28, 1922 in Rieschen ; † July 15, 2020 ) was a German military historian .

He was a full professor for military policy and military history at the Military History Institute of the GDR and sea captain of the National People's Army (NVA).

Life

Origin and education

Günther Glaser was born on December 28, 1922 in Rieschen (hsb. - Zrěšin), part of the municipality of Kubschütz (hsb. - Kubšicy) as the son of a savings bank employee. By the end of 1940 he graduated from the grammar school / state high school for boys in Bautzen (hsb. - Budyšin) and passed the military diploma. As a HJ functionary (Scharführer) he was transferred from the Hitler Youth to the NSDAP in September 1940.

Glaser then did labor service and military service, volunteered for the Wehrmacht and was drafted in May 1941. After his training as a non-commissioned officer in the Luftwaffe (Oberjäger), he was deployed in an Air Force field division on the Eastern Front in 1942 . In March 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After attending the Antifa School of the 2nd Baltic Front , he was assigned to the National Committee for Free Germany (NKFD) from August 1944 onwards .

career

In July 1945 Glaser returned to Germany and was employed in the personnel department of the Bautzen district office. He was involved in the anti-fascist youth committee and became a member of the KPD (SED from 1946).

His professional functionary activity began in March 1946 when he was elected chairman of the Görlitz city and district leadership of the Free German Youth (FDJ). At the beginning of 1947 he came as a teacher at the district youth school of the FDJ in Neukirch / Lausitz and was finally in 1949 a lecturer at the youth college of the FDJ at Bogensee .

In September 1949 he was hired by the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) in the Soviet occupation zone as a People's Police Senior Councilor. and immediately with the founding of the GDR taken over by the main training administration (HVA) in the Ministry of the Interior - from March 1950 as VP commander. From October 1950 he completed an annual course at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED in Kleinmachnow . In 1952 he was accepted into the barracked people's police (KVP) of the GDR and in 1956 into the National People's Army (NVA).

In 1956 Günther Glaser became head of the socio-economic cycle at the officers' school of the naval forces in Stralsund . In 1960 he took up a part-time distance learning course in history / military history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he completed in 1963 with a degree in military history.

From 1962 to 1983 Glaser was employed in Potsdam at the Institute for German Military History - from 1967 German Institute for Military History - as head of the department of military history in the GDR and other socialist countries.

Glaser received his first academic title Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) At the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1968 . In 1970 he was appointed to the German Institute for Military History - from 1972 Military History Institute of the GDR (MGI) - as a (university) lecturer for general military history of the socialist states. His PhD B (Dr. sc. Phil.) Followed in 1973 at MGI.

In 1975 he was appointed full professor for military history of the GDR and military history of the socialist states. In 1985 Günther Glaser retired and retired from active military service as a sea captain. D. dismissed.

Günther Glaser worked as a freelance scientist and author on problems in the military history of the GDR and mainly devoted himself to the democratic military reform of 1989/90 in the GDR. He made scientific contributions to publications of the Military History Research Office (MGFA).

In 2009 he became a member of the Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven e. V. and published in the DSS working papers .

Günther Glaser died on July 15, 2020 at the age of 97.

Awards

1984 “ National Prize of the GDR ” for science and technology, second class in a collective.
1975 " Friedrich Engels Prize " of the GDR, second class for excellent scientific achievements for the benefit of socialist national defense as a member of a collective.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Writings by Günther Glaser in the catalog of the German National Library
Federal Archives: Literature Günther Glaser [4]
Writings by Günther Glaser in the catalog of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library (SLUB) Dresden.
Writings by Günther Glaser in the Saxon Bibliography - SAXORUM Saxon regional studies digital.

Individual evidence

↑ See business cards of the DSS members. Günther Glaser. In: For the demilitarization of security. 20 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. (DSS). (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS Working Papers, Issue 100, Dresden 2010, p 151. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-327018
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f See the tabular curriculum vitae of Günther Glaser. In: Bundesarchiv BArch N 913 Glaser, Günther. URL [1]
↑ See Günther Glaser's biographical data . In: Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. URL [2]
↑ See Günther Glaser: Experienced and learned. Life memories. In: Bundesarchiv BArch N 913 Glaser, Günther. URL: [3]
↑ See authors of the DSS working papers. In: For the demilitarization of security. 25 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. A summary. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven e. V .: DSS Working Papers, Issue 115, Dresden 2015, p 241. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-321465
↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from August 29, 2020.
^ Collective of the Military History Institute of the GDR: Reinhard Brühl, Günther Glaser, Karl Greese, Klaus-Peter Meißner: For his outstanding contribution to the work Army for Peace and Socialism. History of the National People's Army of the GDR. List of winners of the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology (1980–1989)

personal data
SURNAME	Glaser, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German military historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Giant
DATE OF DEATH	15th July 2020

[1] See business cards of the DSS members. Günther Glaser. In: For the demilitarization of security. 20 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. (DSS). (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS Working Papers, Issue 100, Dresden 2010, p 151. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-327018

[:BA-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f See the tabular curriculum vitae of Günther Glaser. In: Bundesarchiv BArch N 913 Glaser, Günther. URL [1]

[3] See Günther Glaser's biographical data . In: Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. URL [2]

[:AB-4] See Günther Glaser: Experienced and learned. Life memories. In: Bundesarchiv BArch N 913 Glaser, Günther. URL: [3]

[5] See authors of the DSS working papers. In: For the demilitarization of security. 25 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. A summary. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven e. V .: DSS Working Papers, Issue 115, Dresden 2015, p 241. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-321465

[6] Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from August 29, 2020.

[7] Collective of the Military History Institute of the GDR: Reinhard Brühl, Günther Glaser, Karl Greese, Klaus-Peter Meißner: For his outstanding contribution to the work Army for Peace and Socialism. History of the National People's Army of the GDR. List of winners of the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology (1980–1989)