Jürgen Förster (historian)

Jürgen Förster (born May 3, 1940 in Reichenberg ) is a German historian .

biography

After graduating from high school and doing military service, Förster studied history and English in Cologne and Nottingham from 1962 to 1968 . In 1966 he received the Postgraduate Diploma in English Studies and passed his state examination in Cologne in 1968 . 1974 Forester with Andreas Gruber Hill with a thesis on the effects of the disaster of Stalingrad 1942/1943 on the European allies Germany and Turkey to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1970 to 2000 he worked as a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) and was involved in the Second World War project and its associated anthology, The German Reich and the Second World War .

During his academic career, Förster held lectureships in Freiburg and Berlin and held several visiting professorships, including at Arizona State University , Ohio State University , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the University of Glasgow , the University of Melbourne and Flinders University . From 2005 to 2013 Förster was a lecturer in military history at the chair for modern and contemporary history in Freiburg.

Förster is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of War in History .

Stalingrad. Risse im Bündnis 1942/43 (= individual writings on the military history of the Second World War . Vol. 16). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, ISBN 3-7930-0175-X .
with Horst Boog , Joachim Hoffmann , Ernst Klink , Rolf-Dieter Müller , Gerd R. Ueberschär : The attack on the Soviet Union (= Fischer . Vol. 11008: History ). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-11008-4 .
(Ed.): Stalingrad. Event - Effect - Symbol (= Piper . Vol. 1618). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Piper, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-492-11618-3 .
with Jürgen Matthäus , Richard Breitman , Konrad Kwiet : Educational goal of murdering Jews? "Philosophical education" of the SS, police and Waffen-SS as part of the "Final Solution" (= Fischer . Vol. 15016: The time of National Socialism ). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15016-7 .
The Wehrmacht in the Nazi state. A structural-historical analysis (= contributions to military history, military history compact . Vol. 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58098-3 .