Kai Uwe Tapken

Kai Uwe Tapken (born August 18, 1965 in Bamberg ) is a German military historian and museum director.

Live and act

Tapken was born in Bamberg and attended the Dientzenhofer grammar school there from 1976 to 1982 . After graduating from high school in 1985 at Steigerwald-Landschulheim Wiesentheid , he studied modern and ancient history as well as archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times in Bamberg, Bayreuth and Kiel. He wrote his Bamberg master's thesis (1993) on the subject of Bamberg as a garrison town in the 19th and early 20th centuries . In 1999 he was at Karl Möckl at the University of Bamberg with the dissertation The Reichswehr in Bavaria from 1919 to 1924 to the Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1994/95 he was a freelancer and from 1995 to 1997 he was a scientific volunteer at the Bamberg Historical Museum . Then he organized the Andechs-Meranier exhibition there. Until 2000 he was a research assistant at the museum. From 2000 to 2003 he was director of the Henneberg Museum in Münnerstadt. From 2003 to 2008, he succeeded Joachim Niemeyer as director and managing director of the Defense History Museum (WGM) Rastatt GmbH.

Since 2008 he has been director of the Bad Neustadt and Rhön-Saale adult education center . He is also head of the city's cultural work.

Fonts (selection)

• (Red.): Baroque splendor Ludwig Collection in Bamberg. Faience and porcelain. [Catalog] (= writings of the Historisches Museum Bamberg . No. 31). Verlag Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 1995, ISBN 3-928648-16-0 .
• (Red.): Karlheinz Bauer, 1925–1976. Between dream and reality. Drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, collages, photos. Exhibition of the Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer, 11.2. - 14.4.1996. Catalog for the exhibition (= writings of the Historisches Museum Bamberg . No. 33). Historical Museum, Bamberg 1996.
• Bamberg as a garrison town in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century (= local supplement to the official school gazette of the Upper Franconian administrative district . No. 248). Edited by the government of Upper Franconia , Bayreuth 1998.
• with Stefan Kestler : Bamberg and the revolution of 1848/49. Accompanying volume for the exhibition "Bamberg and the Revolution of 1848/49" from April 28 to June 12, 1998 in the Bamberg City Archives (= publications of the Bamberg City Archives . No. 7). City archive, Bamberg 1998.
• with Stefan Kestler: "Fresh drum, comrades, the black horse bridled ...". A historical and photographic foray through the Bamberg garrison history 1871–1939 (= publications of the Bamberg City Archives . No. 8). Verlag Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 1998, ISBN 3-928648-36-5 .
• The Reichswehr in Bavaria from 1919 to 1924 (= series studies on contemporary history . Vol. 26). Kovač, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8300-0646-2 .
• with Isabel Reindl (arrangement): Francisco de Goya - Desastres de la guerra. "In a state far below the animals". Accompanying volume for the special exhibition [in the Military History Museum from May 12 to August 5, 2007] (= study collections and special exhibitions in the Military History Museum in Rastatt . Vol. 5). Military History Museum, Rastatt 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810460-2-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kai Uwe Tapken in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions by Kai Uwe Tapken to the Bavarian Bibliography
• Kai Uwe Tapken in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kai Uwe Tapken: Introduction . In: Ders .: The Reichswehr in Bavaria from 1919 to 1924 . Hamburg 2002, pp. 11–20, here: p. 19.
2. ^ Lie: Collection with great potential . In: Mainpost , January 11, 2000.
3. ↑ "Exciting and new challenge" . In: Mainpost , March 21, 2008.