Gerhard Quaas

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Gerhard Quaas is a German military historian and curator .

It was in 1985 at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis stresses the rural population of electoral Saxony by the standing army (1682-1756) PhD . Until 1990 he was the deputy director of the Feudalism department and an expert on the stock of militaria , especially weapons, in the Museum of German History in East Berlin.

In 1996 he was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (3rd prize). Most recently, as the successor to Heinrich Müller, he was head of the Europe-wide important militaria collection in the German Historical Museum in Berlin, which was taken over as collection holdings in 1990.

In 2002 he published an article in the bulletin of the Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Period . In 2007 he took part in the specialist conference The weapon as a military instrument and symbol (annual conference of the Working Group on Military History ) and in 2011 in the symposium On Ordering Things. Record - Classify - Research in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Heinrich Müller , Georg Ortenburg: Old weapons and armor . 2 volumes, Archiv-Verlag, Braunschweig 1992.
  • (Ed.): Iron clothes. Armorer work from three centuries from the collection of the German Historical Museum. [An exhibition of the German Historical Museum in the Zeughaus Berlin, March 12 - July 6, 1992] (= component of the German Historical Museum, Berlin . Part 7). German Historical Museum , Berlin 1992.
  • (Ed.): The craft of the Landsknechte. Weapons and armaments between 1500 and 1600 (= military history and defense sciences . Vol. 3). Commissioned by the Defense Technical Study Collection of the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1997, ISBN 3-7648-2508-1 .
  • (Ed.): Hofjagd. From the collections of the German Historical Museum . On behalf of the German Historical Museum. With a foreword by Hans Ottomeyer , Ed. Minerva, Wolfratshausen 2002, ISBN 3-932353-65-X . (therein: The history of hunting weapons in the Berlin arsenal . P. 28 ff.)
  • with André König: Losses from the collections of the Berlin armory during and after the Second World War . Published by the German Historical Museum Foundation, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86102-166-7 .

More comments:

  • The inventory of oriental weapons and armor in the German Historical Museum, Zeughaus . In: Jens Kröger (Hrsg.): Islamic art in Berlin collections. [100 years of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. On the occasion of the exhibition "Islamic Art in Berlin Collections - 100 Years of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin" in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, from October 19, 2004 to January 16, 2005] . Parthas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86601-435-X , p. 250 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Riedle: Who should pay for it, who ordered it (conversation in Kurt Wernicke and Gerhard Quaas). In: die tageszeitung No. 3069, March 28, 1990, pp. 24–25, here: p. 24.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Quaas: The craft of the Landsknechte, Biblio, 1997, p. Iv.
  3. ↑ Felix Müller: The Militaria Depot in Spandau holds undreamt-of treasures - but not everyone is allowed inside. Love of metallic shine . In: Berliner Morgenpost , vol. 104, October 15, 2002, No. 281, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Felix Müller: The spectacular weapons collection of the German Historical Museum is stored in a suburb of Berlin. Dürer's love for metallic sheen . In: Die Welt , vol. 52, October 29, 2002, No. 252, p. 29.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Quaas: Militaria Collection 1: Old weapons and armor . In: Bulletin of the Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Age 6 (2002) 1, pp. 25–29, here: p. 29.
  6. ^ Military and Society in the Early Modern Era. Bulletin 6 (2002) issue 1. in: H-Soz-Kult , June 12, 2002, < http://www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/zeitschriftenschriften-596 >.
  7. ↑ Ralf Raths : Conference report: The weapon as a military instrument and symbol, October 25, 2007 - October 27, 2007 Berlin, in: H-Soz-Kult , February 9, 2008, < http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport / id / conference-reports-1889 >; Rüdiger von Dehn: The weapon as a military instrument and symbol. Annual conference of the »Military History Working Group e. V. «, October 25-27, 2007, Berlin . In: Military History Journal 67 (2008) 1, pp. 137–140, here: p. 139.
  8. ^ Kai-Britt Albrecht: Conference report: From the ordering of things. Record - Classify - Research, September 12, 2011 - September 13, 2011 Berlin, in: H-Soz-Kult , January 14, 2012, < http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-3980 >.
personal data
SURNAME Quaas, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century