Gerhard Krebs (historian)

Gerhard Krebs (born September 9, 1943 in Warsaw ) is a German historian and former visiting professor of Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

After studying history and German language and literature in Hamburg and Freiburg (1965–1971), Krebs received a DAAD scholarship to study Japanese at the University of Bonn and the Naganuma School in Tokyo . This was followed by a scholarship at Sophia University from 1976 to 1978 and a lecturer position at Waseda University from 1981 to 1986 .

In Germany, Krebs completed his doctorate in Freiburg in July 1982. At first, from 1987 to 1990, he was a research assistant at the History Department of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . From 1990 to 1995 he carried out research at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo , from 1996 to 1999 at the Military History Research Office in Potsdam and was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Trier in 1999/2000 . In 2000 he completed his habilitation in Japanology at the University of Hamburg . From the winter semester 2000/2001 onwards, Krebs became a visiting professor for Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1987 he was awarded the Japan Prize of the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (OAG) for the print version of the dissertation of Japan's policy on Germany 1935–1941 .

Publications (selection)

Japan's Germany Policy 1935–1941. A Study of the Prehistory of the Pacific War. Two volumes. Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Hamburg 1984 (also: University of Freiburg, dissertation 1982).
The War in the Pacific 1943–1945. In: The German Reich and the Second World War . Edited by Military History Research Office . Volume 7: The German Reich on the Defensive - Strategic Air War in Europe, War in the West and in East Asia 1943 to 1944/45. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05507-1 , pp. 643-771.
Modern Japan 1868–1952. From the Meiji Restoration to the Peace Treaty of San Francisco (= Oldenbourg Outline of History , Volume 36). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-55894-4 .
Japan in the Pacific War. System of rule, political decision-making and search for peace. Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89129-010-1 (also: Universität Hamburg, habilitation thesis 2000).