Hans-Joachim Harder

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Hans-Joachim Harder on the balcony of Villa Ingenheim 2003

Hans-Joachim Harder (* 1943 ) is a German officer ( Colonel retired), political scientist , military historian and archivist .

Life

Harder passed his Abitur in 1963 at the Carl-Schurz-Schule in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and then joined the armed forces . From 1966 to 1973 he was an officer in the telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance of the Air Force. In 1978 he was taught by Dieter Oberndörfer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau on the subject of “The Canton of Jura. Causes and steps to solve a minority problem in the Swiss political system "on the Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1978 to 1981 he was responsible for public relations for the 1st Air Force Division in Meßstetten. In 1981 he worked at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1987 to 1991 he was Defense Attaché for Belgium and Luxembourg at the German Embassy in Brussels . Afterwards he was employed as head of military policy in the Office for Studies and Exercises of the German Armed Forces in Bensberg and Air Force Attaché for Russia in the German Embassy in Moscow . In 1997 he became head of research area III at MGFA. From 2001 to 2003 he was a colonel in the General Staff Service, head of the “Training, Information, Specialized Studies” (AIF) department and, most recently, under Beatrice Heuser, he was deputy head of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Potsdam. From 2004 to 2008 he was Senior Scientific Director at the Bundesarchiv-Military Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Harder was co-editor of the magazine military history. Historical Education Journal . He was also chairman of the Military Archives Committee of the International Commission on Military History .

He is married to Jeannine Harder, b. Cartal, and father of the NDR presenter Sandrine Harder-Hoffmann.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs / editorships

  • The canton of Jura. Causes and steps to solve a Swiss minority problem (= European university publications . Series 31: Politics . Volume 14). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-261-02533-6 .
  • with Norbert Wiggershaus : Tradition and Reform. In the early years of the Bundeswehr (= development of German military tradition . Volume 2). Mittler, Herford u. a. 1985, ISBN 3-8132-0210-0 .
  • Military history handbook Baden-Württemberg . Edited by the Military History Research Office, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-17-009856-X .
  • (Ed.): From Truman to Harmel. The Federal Republic of Germany in the field of tension between NATO and European integration (= military history since 1945. Volume 11). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56490-0 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Modernization in the Federal Archives-Military Archives . In: Angelika Menne-Haritz , Rainer Hofmann (Ed.): Archives in Context, Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hartmut Weber on his 65th birthday (= publications of the Federal Archives . 72). Droste, Düsseldorf, ISBN 978-3-7700-1628-0 , pp. 177-185.
  • Guarantors of Peace and Freedom: The US Forces in Germany, 1945–1990 . In: Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., Detlef Junker (Ed.): GIs in Germany . Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-521-85133-6 , pp. 37-55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ got: Learned for life while shopping . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 28, 2008, p. 6.
  2. ^ Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ed.): Dieter Oberndörfer on his 75th birthday. On November 5, 2004. Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-928597-40-X , p. 108.
  3. ↑ Martin Rink : 50 Years of the Military History Research Office. A chronicle . Published by the Military History Research Office, be.bra verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-47-5 , p. 109.
  4. ^ Sven Meyer: The memory administrator - Manfred Kehrig, the guardian of the treasures of the military archive, has retired . In: Badische Zeitung , May 7, 2004, p. 2.
  5. ^ Winfried Heinemann : The International Commission for Military History . In: Military history , issue 2/2006, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, military historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943