Hans Ehlert

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Hans Gotthard Ehlert (born January 30, 1947 in Middels ) is a German officer ( Colonel retired) and military historian . He was the head of the Military History Research Office .

Life

Ehlert comes from Lower Saxony. In 1967, after graduating from high school, he joined the telecommunications service of the German Armed Forces . Ehlert attended the Army Officer School II in Hamburg and was one of the " Leutnanten 70 ". From 1974 to 1980 he studied history , political science and international law at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn . In 1981 he was at Gerhard Adelmann at the Faculty with the thesis The economic central authority of the German Empire from 1914 to 1919. The problem of "social economy" in war and peace to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1981 to 1983 he was used as an officer in the troop service (including company commander ). From 1984 he was a senior historian at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau and Potsdam, where he established Research Area IV (“Military History of the GDR in Alliance”). In 2003/04 he was head of the “Training, Information, Specialized Studies” (AIF) department and deputy head of office and from 2004 to 2010 head of the MGFA. He published several books.

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

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The central economic authority of the German Reich 1914 to 1919. The problem of the "common economy" in war and peace (= contributions to economic and social history , volume 19). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03938-4 .

Editorships

  • with Torsten Diedrich , Rüdiger Wenzke : In the service of the party. Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR (= research on GDR society ). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 .
  • with Hans-Hermann Hertle : The shadow of the wall. The cemented split. Documentation of a forum for contemporary witnesses on August 13, 1961. On behalf of the Military History Research Office and the Center for Contemporary History Research Potsdam. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89626-341-2 .
  • Army with no future. The end of the NVA and German unity. Contemporary witness reports and documents (= military history of the GDR , Volume 3). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-265-4 .
  • with Armin Wagner : Gosse General! The military elite of the GDR in biographical sketches (= military history of the GDR , volume 7). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-312-X .
  • with Matthias Rogg : Military, State and Society in the GDR. Research fields, results, perspectives (= military history of the GDR , volume 8). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-329-4 .
  • Manfred Messerschmidt : Militarism, War of Extermination, Politics of History. On German military and legal history . On behalf of the Military History Research Office, ed. by Hans Ehlert, Arnim Lang and Bernd Wegner , Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75658-9 .
  • with Michael Epkenhans , Gerhard P. Groß : 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 .
  • with Jörg Duppler , Arnim Lang: The Villa Ingenheim in Potsdam. From the Hohenzollern Palace to the Military History Research Office . On behalf of the Military History Research Office. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937233-51-2 .

literature

  • Bruno Thoss (ed.): The history of the NVA from the perspective of the contemporary witness and the historian. [Scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Colonel Dr. Hans Ehlert on January 30, 2007 in Potsdam] (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 3). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808882-4-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Volker Neugebauer (arr.): Fundamentals of German military history . Volume 2: Work and source book . On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, p. 408.
  2. ↑ Hans Ehlert: The Central Economic Authority of the German Reich 1914 to 1919 , 1982, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Ehlert, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehlert, Hans Gotthard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Middels