Herbert Schottelius

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Herbert Schottelius (* 1913 ; † 1974 ) was a German officer ( colonel ) and military historian . He was the head of the Military History Research Office .

Life

Schottelius studied history , geography , ethnology and Romance languages at the University of Hamburg and the University of Königsberg from 1933 to 1938 . In 1938 he was at Adolf Rein (the Mitgutachter was Egmont Zechlin ) at Hamburg University with a thesis on German Central America as a venue colonization attempts from 1840 to 1865 to the Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1939 he became a scientific assistant at the historical seminar and carried out research at the German-Dominican Tropical Research Institute (DDTFI) in Ciudad Trujillo in 1939/40 . He worked there with the Mesoamericanist Franz Termer and, above all, scientists and doctors. The return trip to Germany turned out to be difficult due to the battle of the Atlantic . From 1940 to 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War he was an Allied interpreter in the British occupation zone in Hamburg. In 1948 he passed the teacher's exam and became a research assistant in the Department of Overseas History at the Historical Institute of the University of Hamburg. In 1952 he became a scientific employee of the Hamburg school authorities and temporarily headed the research center for the history of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945 ; In 1956 he was the last employee to leave the facility.

From May 1956 he was a captain in the advance staff and in the 1950s he was a major teaching group commander at the Bundeswehr school for internal leadership (InFüSBw) in Cologne / Koblenz . From 1963 to 1967 the lieutenant colonel i. G. Defense attaché for Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay in the German Embassy in Buenos Aires . From 1969 to 1972 he was Colonel i. G. Head of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Fonts (selection)

  • Central America as the scene of German attempts at colonization 1840–1865 . Christians, Hamburg 1939.
  • (Ed. With Wilhelm Deist ): Navy and naval policy in imperial Germany, 1871-1914 . Military History Research Office, Droste, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-7700-0319-5 . (2nd edition 1981)
  • (with Inge Buisson ): The independence movements in Latin America, 1788–1826 (= handbook of Latin American history ). Klett-Kotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-911400-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Schottelius: Preliminary remarks . In: Ders .: Central America as the scene of German colonization attempts 1840–1865 . Hamburg 1939, p. 5.
  2. ^ Felix Brahm: The German-Dominican Tropical Research Institute 1937-1940. Basis for a German colony in the Dominican Republic or an 'experimental field' for colonial tasks in Africa? . In: Sandra Carreras (Ed.): National Socialism and Latin America . IAI, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935656-20-3 , p. 46.
  3. ^ Felix Brahm: The German-Dominican Tropical Research Institute 1937-1940. Basis for a German colony in the Dominican Republic or an 'experimental field' for colonial tasks in Africa? . In: Sandra Carreras (Ed.): National Socialism and Latin America . IAI, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935656-20-3 , p. 45.
  4. ^ Felix Brahm: The German-Dominican Tropical Research Institute 1937-1940. Basis for a German colony in the Dominican Republic or an 'experimental field' for colonial tasks in Africa? . In: Sandra Carreras (Ed.): National Socialism and Latin America . IAI, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935656-20-3 , p. 52.
  5. ↑ Axel Schildt : From the merchant legend to the Hamburg legend. Heinrich Heffter's lecture "Hamburg and National Socialism" at Hamburg University on November 9, 1950 . In: Contemporary history in Hamburg 2003 . Edited by the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg , Hamburg 2004, p. 43 f.
  6. ↑ Axel Schildt : From the merchant legend to the Hamburg legend. Heinrich Heffter's lecture "Hamburg and National Socialism" at Hamburg University on November 9, 1950 . In: Contemporary history in Hamburg 2003 . Edited by the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg , Hamburg 2004, p. 12.
  7. ^ Georg Meyer: On the internal development of the Bundeswehr until 1960/61 . In: Hans Ehlert u. a. Beginnings of West German Security Policy . Volume 3: The NATO Option . Published by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-51691-4 , p. 959.
personal data
SURNAME Schottelius, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
DATE OF DEATH 1974