Jann M. Witt

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Jann Markus Witt (born September 20, 1967 in Eckernförde ) is a German historian .

After graduating from the Jungmannschule in 1988 , Witt did basic military service as a marine security soldier . From 1989 to 1995 he studied Middle and Modern History, Political Science and Public Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (MA 1995) and the Thames Valley University in Ealing. In 1999 he was awarded a doctorate in Kiel with a thesis on the northern European merchant ship captains from the 17th to the 19th century. phil. PhD. He was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and received technical support from the private lecturer Martin Rheinheimer .

He then worked for the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher . In 2003/04 he was advisor for gifted students at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. In 2005 he became a lecturer at the North Sea Academy in Leck. He also advised the German Navy Federation , whose historian he has been at the Laboe Marine Memorial since 2008 . His focus is on European maritime and naval history , the regional history of Schleswig-Holstein and the history of the Hanseatic League .

Witt is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Shipping and Naval History . As an active reserve officer ( frigate captain dR) he practiced u. a. as a staff officer for military history at the Naval School Mürwik in Flensburg.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Master next God? The Northern European merchant ship captain from the 17th to the 19th century. (= Writings of the German Maritime Museum. Vol. 57). Convent, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934613-25-X .
  • Horatio Nelson. The triumph and tragedy of a sea hero. His life and his time. 1758-1805 . Koehler, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-7822-0925-7 .
  • The Baltic Sea. Location of the story. Primus, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-358-5 .
  • From black-red-gold to black-red-gold. A brief history of the German navy from 1848 to the present day. Palmedia, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813375-2-5 .
  • Pirates. A story from antiquity to today. Primus, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-89678-835-1 .
  • Naval history of Schleswig-Holstein in modern times. (= Series of publications of the German Maritime Academy. Vol. 2). Boyens, Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1367-8 .
  • Conqueror of the Seas. Warriors, traders and explorers from ancient times to today. Theiss, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-2597-6 .
  • The bounty was his fate. The adventurous life of William Bligh. Primus, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-86312-041-2 .
  • German naval history. [1848 until today]. Palm, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944594-23-1 .
  • with Robin McDermott: Scarborough Bombardment. The attack by the German deep sea fleet on Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool on December 16, 1914. Palm, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944594-50-7 .
  • 125 years of the German Navy Federation. From former marine association to the largest maritime interest group in Germany. Deutscher Marinebund, Laboe 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817375-0-9 .
  • with Christian Jentzsch: The Sea War 1914–1918. The Imperial Navy in the First World War. Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3272-1 .

Editorships

  • with Heiko Vosgerau: Schleswig-Holstein from the origins to the present. A national history. Convent, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-934613-39-X .
  • with Thomas Riis: A tale of two cities. Berlin - Copenhagen 1650–1930. Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-937719-26-1 .
  • Eckernförde. History of a port and naval city. Convent, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934613-96-9 .
  • with Heiko Vosgerau: History of Schleswig-Holstein. Clear - exciting - understandable. Boyens, Heide 2010, ISBN 978-3-8042-1313-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jann M. Witt: Master next God? Hamburg 2001, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Scientific advisory board  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , schiffahrtsgeschichte.de, accessed on July 5, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schiffahrtsgeschichte.de  
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Jann M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witt, Jann Markus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde