Helmut R. Hammerich

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Helmut Rudolf Hammerich (born October 5, 1965 in Illertissen ) is a German officer ( lieutenant colonel ) and military historian . His main research interests are the Cold War , intelligence services and the early modern period . Hammerich has been a lecturer in military history at the Inner Guidance Center in Koblenz since December 2017 .

Life

Hammerich resigned after graduating from high school in 1985 at the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium in the Lower Franconian boars as officer cadets of the army in the Bundeswehr one. He was trained in the 354 tank battalion in Hammelburg. From 1988 to 1992 he studied political and social sciences with a focus on history (diploma) at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg . Then he was used in the tank training battalion 334 in Celle and in the tank reconnaissance battalion 6 in Eutin .

In 1994 he became a historian officer and scientific assistant to the head of the research department, Hans-Erich Volkmann , at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) of the Bundeswehr. From 1994 to 1999 he was a research assistant at Research Area IV, International Military History since 1945 and from 2000 to 2012 at Research Area III, History of the Bundeswehr in the Alliance. From 2000 to 2008 he was project manager “History of the Army 1950–1970” and editor of the military history magazine (MGZ). In 2002 he was awarded a doctoral thesis in history with Manfred Görtemaker and Hans-Erich Volkmann at the University of Potsdam, each for himself and America against all? The burden sharing of NATO using the example of the Temporary Council Committee 1949 to 1954 for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2008 to 2009 he was a research fellow at the SHAPE Historical Office in Mons , Belgium . After serving as a press officer, he became a research assistant in the research area of security policy and armed forces in 2013 . From 2015 to the end of 2017, Hammerich was deployed at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam , where he was head of the Mission History project area in the Mission Department. He is a lecturer at the Zentralinstitut studium plus at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

Hammerich is an honorary member of the “Prinz Coburg” class of officers of the Austrian Armed Forces and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Military and Garrison History in Oldenburg.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Field Marshal General Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737–1815). A biographical sketch. Self-published, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-00-007623-9 .
  • Everyone for himself and America against everyone? The burden sharing of NATO using the example of the Temporary Council Committee 1949 to 1954 (= origin and problems of the Atlantic alliance. Volume 5). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56758-6 .
  • “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 .

Editorships

  • Inner leadership yearbook
  • with Dieter H. Kollmer , Martin Rink , Rudolf J. Schlaffer : Das Heer 1950–1970. Conception, organization, installation (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57974-6 .
  • with Uwe Hartmann , Claus von Rosen : The Limits of the Military (= Yearbook Inner Leadership. 2010 edition). Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937885-30-8 .
  • with Rudolf J. Schlaffer: Military development generations of the Bundeswehr 1955 to 1970. Selected biographies. Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70436-5 .
  • with Volker Rößner: The Fuchs family from Bimbach and Dornheim in the German Empire. A picture of life in letters from the estate of Reinold Frhr. Fuchs von Bimbach and Dornheim (1845–1903) (= publication of the Society for Franconian History. Series IX, Volume 57). Wissenschaftlicher Kommissionsverlag, Stegaurach 2011, ISBN 978-3-86652-957-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Advisory Board , milgesch-oldenburg.de, accessed on July 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hammerich, Helmut R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerich, Helmut Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian and lieutenant colonel
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Illertissen