Jörg Echternkamp

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Jörg Echternkamp (born October 3, 1963 in Herford ) is a German historian . He teaches modern and contemporary history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is scientific director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam .

Life

Echternkamp studied history, Romance languages and education at the University of Bielefeld , the University of Poitiers and the Johns Hopkins University . With a doctoral thesis on the origin and development of German nationalism in the 18th and 19th centuries, he received his doctorate in 1996 under Hans-Ulrich Wehler in Bielefeld. He completed his habilitation in 2012 in Halle with a study on the political functionality of historical interpretations of the Second World War in West Germany 1945–1955, which was published in 2014 under the title Soldiers in the Post-War era .

Echternkamp has been a historian at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr since 1997 and has been the editor of the Institute Periodic Military History Journal (MGZ) since 2000 . From 2002 to 2004 he headed the research project “Age of World Wars”, then the research project “End of War - Post-War Orders - Consequential Conflicts in the 19th and 20th centuries”. Century in Comparison ”and since 2010 the project“ European Military History in the 19th and 20th Centuries ”. Since 2016 he has been head of the “Military History of the GDR” project division. He is an adjunct professor of modern and contemporary history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he has been a lecturer since 2004 and a private lecturer since 2012 , and scientific director at the ZMS.

Echternkamp's research position stands for an analysis and presentation of military history as social history . He acted as editor of the corresponding standard work Die Deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft 1939 to 1945 within the MGFA series The German Reich and the Second World War .

In addition to his research at MGFA, Echternkamp worked as a visiting professor and lecturer at universities in Germany and abroad, for example in Calgary , Canada in 2004 . He was a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin , the Free University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam and from 2006 to 2010 at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and was a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute in Paris in 2006 . In 2011 he was a visiting fellow at University College London and from 2007 to 2011 a visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute in London . In 2012/13 he held the guest professorship named after Alfred Grosser at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . Echternkamp is a member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation and the Franco-German historians' committee.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The rise of German nationalism 1770–1840 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-593-35960-X (Zugl .: Bielefeld University, dissertation, 1996).
  • Theater of war Germany 1945. Living in fear. Hope for peace . Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-72892-X .
  • The 101 Most Important Questions: The Second World War. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59314-7 (Chinese Taiwan 2012).
  • The Federal Republic of Germany 1945 / 49–1969. (= Seminar book history ). Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag / UTB, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3724-0 .
  • Post war soldiers. Historical conflicts of interpretation and West German democratization 1945–1955 (= contributions to military history . Vol. 76). De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035122-4 (acc .: University of Halle, habilitation thesis, 2012).
  • The Third Reich - dictatorship, national community, war. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-486-75569-5 . (Oldenbourg's floor plan of story 45).

Editorships

  • with Sven O. Müller: The politics of the nation. German nationalism in war and crises 1760–1960 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56652-0 .
  • The German War Society 1939–1945 . First half volume: politicization, annihilation, survival. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-06236-6 ; Second half volume: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion. (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 9 / 1–2). DVA, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-06528-4 (Oxford University Press, 2008/2014).
    • In it from Echternkamp: In the fight on the internal and external front. Basic features of German society in World War II , Volume 2, pp. 1–92.
  • with Stefan Martens : The Second World War in Europe. Experience and memory . On behalf of the German Historical Institute Paris and the Military History Research Office. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76470-6 (Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York 2010, paperback 2013).
  • with Manfred Hettling : Conditionally ready for action. Remembrance of soldiers in the Federal Republic . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36756-8 .
  • with Thomas Vogel and Wolfgang Schmidt : Perspectives on military history. Space, Violence, and Representation in Historical Research and Education . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58816-3 .
  • with Stefan Martens: Military in Germany and France 1870–2010. Comparison, interweaving and perception between conflict and cooperation . Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77336-4 .
  • End of war, post-war orders and subsequent conflicts. Ways out of the war in the 19th and 20th centuries . Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7930-9712-9 .
  • with Manfred Hettling: Commemoration of the fallen in a global comparison. National tradition, political legitimation and individualization of memory . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71627-6 .
  • with Hans-Hubertus Mack : History without borders? European dimensions of military history from the 19th century to the present day . Commissioned by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-041118-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sonja Schilcher: Review of: Jörg Echternkamp: Soldiers in the post-war. Historical conflicts of interpretation and West German democratization 1945–1955 , Munich 2014. In: sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 5 from May 15, 2015.