Yehuda Wallach

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Jehuda Lothar Wallach ( Hebrew יהודה ואלך; * March 12, 1921 in Haigerloch , Hohenzollernsche Lande ; † August 1, 2008 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli officer ( colonel ) and military historian of German origin.

Life

Wallach was in the then to Prussia belonging Hohenzollern lands born in Swabia and emigrated in 1936 with his family to Palestine . He settled in the Beit Zera kibbutz , where he also met his future wife. With her he was one of the founding members of Kibbutz Ein Dor . In 1938 he became a member of the Zionist paramilitary underground organization Haganah . In the Israeli War of Independence gelding battalion commander was in the Givati Brigade . In 1949 he was appointed commander of the 10th Brigade. During the Sinai War in 1956 , the troops commanded by Wallach suffered heavy losses and a conflict broke out with Moshe Dajan , the chief of the general staff.

Wallach then studied world history and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Bachelor of Arts 1962) and obtained a doctorate in 1965 from the University of Oxford with a military history dissertation on the battle of annihilation , supervised by NH Gibbs.

From 1970 he taught as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and was a member of the Minerva Institute for German History, as well as a visiting professor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University . In 1987 he was appointed to the historians' commission to investigate the Waldheim affair . Wallach acted as author and editor of 20 books and published over 100 specialist articles. He is buried in Kibbutz Nirim .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The dogma of the battle of annihilation. The teachings of Clausewitz and Schlieffen and their effects in 2 world wars . Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1967. (en: Clausewitz and Schlieffen )
  • The doctrine of war by Friedrich Engels (= Hamburg studies on modern history , Volume 10). European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • War theories. Their development in the 19th and 20th centuries . Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7637-5114-9 .
  • Anatomy of a military aid. The Prussian-German military missions in Turkey 1835-1919 (= series of publications by the Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University , Volume 1). Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-0441-8 .
  • "... And with the other one they held the gun". The wars of Israel . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1984, ISBN 3-7637-5243-9 .

literature

  • Dov Amir: Life and work of the German-speaking writers in Israel. A bio bibliography . KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1980, ISBN 3-598-10070-1 , p. 86.
  • George Gawrych: Key to the Sinai: The Battles for Abu Ageila in the 1956 and 1967. Arab-Israeli Wars (= Combat Studies Institute Research Survey , 7). Command and General Staff College , Fort Leavenworth 1990 ( PDF ) - On the diverging opinions of Wallach and Dayan on the occasion of the Sinai campaign of 1956.

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personal data
SURNAME Wallach, Yehuda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallach, Jehuda Lothar (full name); Wallach, Yehuda Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Haigerloch
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2008
Place of death Tel Aviv