Gerhard P. Gross

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Gerhard P. Groß (* 1958 in Mainz ) is a German officer ( colonel ) and military historian .

Life

Groß studied history and political science at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1983 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. Then he rejoined the Bundeswehr . From 1984 to 1988 he served in the 3rd / Feldjäger Battalion 740 in Mainz. In 1988 he was at Winfried Baumgart at the Department 16 History with the dissertation The naval warfare of the Imperial Navy in 1918 to Dr. phil. PhD .

He then worked as a lecturer in military history at the Army Officers' School in Hanover until 1996 , before he became a research assistant at the Potsdam Military History Research Office (MGFA) that same year and was its head of historical education until 2003 . From 2003 to 2010 he headed the First World War project within the MGFA research area Ages of World Wars and from 2010 to 2012 was head of MGFA research area IV Military History of the GDR in the Alliance . In 2013 and 2014 (provisional) he headed the research area German Military History from 1945 at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , as the MGFA has been called since it was renamed on January 1, 2013. In 2014 he became head of the Military History Research Department until 1945 .

As his special research interests, Groß names the military history of the GDR , the history of the First World War and the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. His study on the history of operational thinking in the German army from Moltke to Heusinger (2012) was positively received in science and journalism and as successful refutation of common theses, such as the tendency to omnipotence of the General Staff in World War I or supposedly superior operational achievements in World War II , which would only have failed due to Hitler's dilettantism.

In 2014, the English translation of Der Schlieffenplan received the Arthur Goodzeit Book Award .

Since 2015 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

Fonts (selection)

  • The naval warfare of the Imperial Navy in 1918 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-631-41479-X (Zugl .: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 1988)
  • (Ed. With Jörg Duppler ): End of the war 1918. Event, effect, aftermath (= contributions to military history , volume 53). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56443-9 .
  • (Ed. On behalf of the Military History Research Office): Leadership thinking in European and North American armed forces in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0762-5
  • (Ed. On behalf of the Military History Research Office): The forgotten front - the east 1914/15. Event, effect, aftermath . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75655-8
  • (Ed. With Hans Ehlert and Michael Epkenhans ): The Schlieffenplan. Analyzes and documents (= age of world wars , volume 2). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office and the Otto von Bismarck Foundation. Schöningh, 2nd edition, Paderborn a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-75629-9 .
  • English translation by David T. Zabecki : The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2014, ISBN 978-0-8131-4746-8 .
  • (Ed. With Bernhard Chiari ): At the edge of Europe? The Balkans - Area and Population as Fields of Activity of Military Force (= Contributions to Military History , Volume 68). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59154-5 .
  • (With Michael Epkenhans and Burkhard Köster ): Prussia. The rise and fall of a great power . Theiss, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2418-4
  • Myth and Reality. History of operational thinking in the German army von Moltke d.Ä. to Heusinger . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77554-2
    • (Ed. David T. Zabecki ) The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8131-6837-1
  • The end of the First World War and the stab in the back legend (= wars of modernity). Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 9783150111680 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen P. Groß: The naval warfare of the Imperial Navy in 1918 . Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Dieter Langewiesche : Review of: Gerhard P. Gross: Mythos and Reality. The history of operational thinking in the German army von Moltke d.Ä. to Heusinger, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2012 , in: sehepunkte , 13 (2013), No. 1 from January 15, 2013; Klaus Naumann : Gerhard P. Groß: Myth and Reality Even if you lacked your own strength: Gerhard P. Groß disenchanted the operative thinking in the German army . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 22, 2013, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Gerhard P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Great, Gerhard Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian and colonel
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz