Gerhard Schreiber (military historian)

Gerhard Schreiber (born July 26, 1940 in Tepl , Sudetenland ; † May 17, 2017 ) was a German naval officer ( retired frigate captain ) and military historian .

After graduating from high school , he joined the German Navy ( Crew X / 61) in 1961 and was trained as a career officer. In 1965/66 he was an inspection officer at the Naval NCO School in Plön. 1966/67 he was a telecommunications officer on the destroyer 6 and the training ship Danube and subsequently at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg-Mürwik. From 1968 he studied history and art history at the University of Hamburg . In 1976 he was at Klaus-Jürgen Müller at the Faculty with the thesis Navy leadership and German-Italian politics from 1919 to 1944 for Dr. phil. PhD. The Inspector of the Navy Vice Admiral Günter Luther awarded him a prize in 1977 for his work. In 1978 it became part of the MGFA series Contributions to Military and War History under the title Revisionism and Striving for World Power . Naval command and German-Italian relations established from 1919 to 1944 .

From 1976 to 1996 Schreiber was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau . He published mainly about the time of National Socialism and the German-Italian relations . He was u. a. Contributor to the series The German Reich and the Second World War (Volumes 3 and 8) and, together with Werner Rahn, editor of the multi-volume war diary of the naval warfare 1939–1945 . Its as standard work respected monograph The Italian military internees in the German sphere 1943 to 1945. Betrayed - Despised - Forget was the Italian city with the historic price Guareschi Acqui excellent. He was also a bearer of the German Armed Forces Cross of Honor in Gold and a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and an honorary citizen of the city of Barletta in Apulia / Italy.

Schreiber lived in Gundelfingen near Freiburg im Breisgau.

Fonts (selection)

• Revisionism and striving for world power. Naval command and German-Italian relations 1919 to 1944 (= contributions to military and war history . Vol. 20). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-421-01851-0 .
• Hitler. Interpretations 1923–1983. Results, methods and problems of research . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-07081-X . (2nd, improved and supplemented by an annotated bibliography for the years 1984–1987 edition 1988)
• The Italian military internees in the German sphere of influence 1943 to 1945. Betrayed - Despised - Forgotten (= contributions to military history. Vol. 28). Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55391-7 .
• with Ernst Willi Hansen, Bernd Wegner (eds.): Political change, organized violence and national security. Contributions to the recent history of Germany and France. Festschrift for Klaus-Jürgen Müller (= contributions to military history . Vol. 50). Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56063-8 .
• German war crimes in Italy. Perpetrator, victim, prosecution (= Beck'sche series . 1168). Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39268-7 .
• The Second World War (= Beck series . 2164). Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-44764-3 . (5th edition 2013)
• Brief history of World War II. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52953-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Schreiber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gerhard Schreiber at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in FAZ No. 138 from 17./18. June 2017, p. 12
2. ^ Gerhard Schreiber: Revisionism and striving for world power . Stuttgart 1978, p. 8.
3. ^ Gerhard Schreiber: Revisionism and striving for world power . Stuttgart 1978, p. 7.
4. ↑ See the appraisal of his contributions to Italian research in: Malte König: War and the military in the first half of the 20th century: Tendencies and gaps in German-speaking Italian research 1970-2015 , in: Military history journal 75.2 (2016), pp. 415-434 , here 422-427.
5. ↑ See u. a. Dieter Pohl : Persecution and mass murder in the Nazi era 1933–1945 . 2nd, revised and bibliographical supplemented edition, WBG, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21757-1 , p. 166; Wolfram Wette : The Wehrmacht. Enemy images, war of extermination, legends . Fischer E-Books, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-403260-3 , o. S .; Rainer Zitelmann : The Italian military internees in the German sphere of influence 1943 to 1945. betrayed - despised - forgotten. Contributions to military history. Published by the Military History Research Office. Vol. 28 by Gerhard Schreiber . In: Zeitschrift für Politik NF 39 (1992) 2, p. 227 f.