H. Dieter Neumann

Heinrich Dieter Neumann (born October 19, 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1969, Neumann went to the Bundeswehr Air Force as a conscript , where he later signed up and began an officer career. Among other things, he was deployed as an aerial photography and intelligence officer as well as in the NATO tactical reviews team at home and abroad, became squadron chief in Reconnaissance Wing 52 in Leck , North Friesland, adjutant to the commander of the 3rd Air Force Division in Kalkar and finally deputy group commander in Fighter Bomber Wing 36 in Rheine , Westphalia. At the age of 38 he resigned his employment, but after his retirement he continued to do military exercises as Lieutenant Colonel d. R. and Commander of the Air Base Group in Reconnaissance Wing 51 in Jagel .

Neumann then worked in the insurance industry, completed a distance learning course to become a qualified financial economist (BI) and became, among other things, sales manager and later managing director of a company in Rendsburg , before he switched entirely to writing at the age of 60, accompanied by distance learning in literature . He wrote suspense novels that deal with explosive contemporary problems. His hobby, sailing , usually also plays a role. He first published two political thrillers, Die Scars der Hölle in 2012 and The Legacy of the She-Wolf in 2013 , before devoting himself to writing crime novels that have Flensburg and the Flensburg Fjord as a backdrop. For his first crime thriller, Die Tote von Kalkgrund from 2015, he researched the Flensburg water police and the DGzRS sea rescue workers . Here the young inspector Helene Christ solves her first case with the help of the experienced criminal investigation officer Edgar Schimmel. After Murder on the Fjord in 2015, his third detective novel Death on the Rum Regatta of 2016 takes place on the Rum Regatta . In the book, the detective investigators Helene Christ and Edgar Schimmel, who after finding the body of a young African, go in search of suspects. In fog over the coast , Helene Christ ends up in her fourth case, which involves a murdered State Secretary from the Kiel state government, in her investigation directly into the political power and intrigue of the state capital. Blood Gulls , the fifth novel in the series, takes Chief Commissioner Christ to a coastal village after the mysterious death of a farmer, where her investigations threaten to fail because of the dismissive attitude of the long-established residents. In "Fire in the Dunes", the sixth volume in the series, Helene Christ and her team are investigating in a German-Danish special commission. It was formed because the murder of a German resident in Denmark and several arson attacks on the Danish coast are apparently linked.

Since 2015, Neumann has also published four non-fiction books on idioms from the world of the military, the maritime world and craft and trade.

H. Dieter Neumann is a member of the Syndikat eV (authors 'group of German-language crime literature), the Kieler Krimi Kartell and the Montségur authors' forum . He is married, has two grown daughters and lives in the countryside near Flensburg .

Publications

Fiction

The scars of hell . Political thriller, Südwestbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-942661-68-3 .
The legacy of the she-wolf . Political thriller, Südwestbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-942661-61-4 .
The dead from Kalkgrund . Detective novel, Grafit Verlag, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-454-4 .
Murder on the fjord . Detective novel, Grafit Verlag, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-89425-462-9 .
Death on the rum regatta . Detective novel, Grafit Verlag , Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-89425-471-1 .
Fog over the coast . Detective novel, Grafit Verlag, Dortmund 2017, ISBN 978-3-89425-484-1 .
Blood gulls . Detective novel, Grafit Verlag, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-89425-577-0 .
Fire in the dunes . Grafit Verlag (Emons), Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-89425-630-2 .

Non-fiction

The Prussians are not shooting that fast! - Idioms from the world of the military. Regionalia-Verlag, Rheinbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-955401-94-8 .
Close to the wind - idioms from the maritime world. Regionalia-Verlag, Rheinbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-955402-43-3 .
Taken at the grain - idioms from the world of the military. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-806233-66-7 .
Everything in butter - idioms from craft and trade . Regionalia-Verlag, Rheinbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-955403-04-1 .

Awards

1st place jury prize NordMord Award 2018

Web links

Literature by and about H. Dieter Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage of the author

Individual evidence

↑ Tina Ludwig: New detective novel: Rumregatta becomes a murderous crime scene. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , January 5, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2016 .
^ Flensburg crime thriller: The investigator duo from the fjord. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . March 25, 2015, accessed July 27, 2016 .
↑ Tina Ludwig: New detective novel: Rumregatta becomes a murderous crime scene. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . January 5, 2016, accessed May 27, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Neumann, H. Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neumann, Heinrich Dieter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[1] Tina Ludwig: New detective novel: Rumregatta becomes a murderous crime scene. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , January 5, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2016 .

[2] Flensburg crime thriller: The investigator duo from the fjord. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . March 25, 2015, accessed July 27, 2016 .

[3] Tina Ludwig: New detective novel: Rumregatta becomes a murderous crime scene. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . January 5, 2016, accessed May 27, 2016 .