Gebhard Aders

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Gebhard Christoph Aders (born March 15, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) is a German archivist and author. From 1978 to 2002 he was head of the Porz branch on the right bank of the Rhine of the historical archive of the city of Cologne .

Life

Born in Düsseldorf, son of the state archivist Günter Aders, he attended the Paulinum grammar school in Münster . After graduating from high school, he served as a temporary officer in the Air Force for a few years before deciding in 1965 to become an archivist. After an internship at the Kempen district archive, he began his training at the Bonn city ​​archive in the summer of 1965 . In 1968 he passed the first examination for the archival service at the archives school in Marburg , and in the same year the second career examination in Bonn.

In 1977 the city of Cologne offered him the position of head of the Porz branch of the historical archive of the city of Cologne. He held this office from January 1978 to May 2002.

Linked to this was the activity as editor for the yearbook published by the history and homeland association Rechtsrheinisches Köln . As managing director of this association, he succeeded in increasing the number of members to over 700 and increasing the income so that the association was able to finance two research projects in the 1990s.

A few years after his retirement he settled in Altenberge in the Münsterland region, where he actively participated in local history research and in looking after the community archive.

Publications (selection)

Aders' inclination was initially military history.

• The battle on the Tönis and Fischelner Heide 1758 , in: Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld, Kempen 1969.
• Bonn as a fortress. A contribution to the topography of the city and the history of its sieges (= publications of the Bonn City Archives, Volume 12), Bonn, 1973.
• The Prussian fortifications of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine , in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, Vol. 5, Cologne 1979
• History of the German night hunt 1917–1945 , Stuttgart 1977, 2nd edition Stuttgart 1978, English licensed editions London 1979, 1982.
• The air raid by the Royal Air Force on July 4, 1943 and the German defensive measures , in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, Vol. 9/10, Cologne 1983/84
• Jagdgeschwader 51 "Mölders" - A Chronicle. Stuttgart 1985.
• War events in the Cologne area on the right bank of the Rhine in the years 1795 and 1796 , in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, Vol. 18, Cologne 1992.
• The Cologne anti-aircraft defense and its student soldiers in World War II ,
• Part 1–3, in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, Volume 19–21, Cologne 1993–96.
• The air war against Cologne - legends and facts, in: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, Vol. 75, Cologne 2004
• The bombing war - strategies of destruction , Cologne 2004.
• In Martin Rüther: Cologne in the Second World War, Cologne 2005, the treatment of the history of the aerial warfare.

Aders also wrote 30 magazine articles and monographs on the war, especially on the history of the air war, in Germany, Great Britain, the USA, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia.

During his time as editor of the yearbook “Rechtsrheinisches Köln” there were over 40 articles on different aspects of local history on the right bank of the Rhine. For the handbook of the historical sites of North Rhine-Westphalia he wrote the articles about the Cologne suburbs on the right bank of the Rhine.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gebhard Aders in the catalog of the German National Library
• History and local history association on the right bank of the Rhine in Cologne