Herbert Rosinski

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Herbert Rosinski , also Herbert F. Rosinski , (born January 30, 1903 in Königsberg in East Prussia , German Empire ; † February 27, 1962 in New York City , USA ) was a German-American military theorist who dealt with the German military history of the interwar period and as Analyst on strategy in maritime warfare after World War II .

Life

Rosinski's father, Bernhard Rosinski, was a doctor and professor at the University of Königsberg . He studied history , archeology and Egyptology at the universities of Tübingen , Königsberg and Berlin . He participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt . In 1927 he passed his exams in Japanese linguistics and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1930.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Rosinski studied further and occupied himself with the general staff of the Reichsmarine . In 1934 he married Marie-Luise Tripp . After the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, he was forbidden to do scientific work because his maternal grandmother was Jewish . The following year he emigrated to Great Britain , where he published the book The German Army in 1939 . During this time, some of his works were printed in German-speaking countries under the pseudonym Miles .

At the beginning of the Second World War he was interned as a German citizen , but was able to emigrate to the USA in 1940 . There he resumed his academic work at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey . He has contributed to Brassey's Naval Annual , Yale Review , Military Affairs, and the American Historical Review , among others . In 1942 the book Sea Power in the Pacific followed in collaboration with Werner B. Ellinger . During 1944 and 1945 he worked for Voice of America as a military analyst and radio announcer. In the late 1940s he went to India, which had just become independent, and taught higher officer ranks there. There he also got to know the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru better.

In 1953, Rosinski became a US citizen. In the following years he taught at the Naval War College in Newport (Rhode Island) and developed strategies for the United States Navy with Rear Admiral Henry E. Eccles . From 1951 to 1961 he was a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations . He died after a heart attack on February 27, 1962 in New York.

Publications

  • 1930: Dissertation: Studies on the problem of self-sufficiency in Japan , Philosophical Faculty, Berlin
  • 1934: The military situation in Yugoslavia . German Society for Defense Policy and Science , Berlin NW7, Reichstag building.
  • 1934: The military picture of forces in East Asia . German Society for Defense Policy and Science, Berlin.
  • 1935: The development of Clausewitz's work “Vom Kriege” in the light of his “Vorreden” and “Nachrichten”, In: Historische Zeitschrift , Volume 151, Issue 2, 1935, pp. 278-293.
  • 1939: under the pseudonym Miles . Germany's readiness for war and war prospects? in the mirror of German specialist literature . Europa Verlag, Zurich / New York.
  • 1939: The German Army . Hogarth Printers, London.
    • 1966: The German Army . Frederick A. Praeger Inc., New York, German edition 1970 as The German Army. An analysis , Econ Verlag GmbH, Düsseldorf and Vienna
    • 1977: The German Army: From Triumph to Decline , edited and with an introduction by Gordon A. Craig . Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-48034-1 .
  • 1942: with Werner B. Ellinger: Sea Power in the Pacific: A Selected Bibliography of Books, Periodical Articles, and Maps from the End of the London Naval Conference to the Beginning of the War in the Pacific . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
  • 1965: Publisher: Richard P. Stebbins; with a foreword by August Heckscher : Power and Human Destiny , A.Praeger, New York City 1965.
  • 1977: Essais from Brassey's Naval Annual : The Development of Naval Thought . with an Introduction by B. Mitchell Simpson III .; Naval War College Press, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

literature

  • Richard P. Stebbins: The Career of Herbert Rosinski . Lang, New York / Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 0-8204-0903-0 .
  • Rosinski, Herbert , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 992

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personal data
SURNAME Rosinski, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosinski, Herbert F .; Miles (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg , East Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1962
Place of death New York City , USA