Klaas Voss

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Klaas Voss , also written as Klaas Voss , (* 1982 in Germany ) is a German historian , author and university professor .

Life

Between 2003 and 2009, Voss studied history , political science and American studies at the University of Hamburg and in the USA . From 2006–2007 he was a fellow of the German-American Fulbright Commission . From 2009 to 2012 he was a PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

Voss has dealt with the areas of US American history, the history of the Cold War , the mercenaries and private military companies in the 20th and 21st centuries, the history of the secret services, as well as the politics of intervention and the various covert operations over the past hundred years and published about it. He was with a study on the use of mercenaries in covert operations during the Cold War at the University of Hamburg in 2012 a doctorate and is a student of the German historian and political scientist Bernd Greiner . Under the title Washington's Mercenaries: Covert US Interventions in the Cold War and Their Consequences , the corresponding monograph was published in 2014 by Verlag Hamburger Edition. The book received positive reviews and has already been called the new "standard work on the subject". A reviewer in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the fact that, despite the investigative account of CIA secret operations, it was "not suitable for crude anti-Americanism". Another reviewer on the scientific review platform sehepunkte noted: "Voss's study reads like a thriller in places, and that without the author compromising on the strictly scientific work."

From September 2012 to August 2016, Voß worked at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , an independent research institute founded by Jan-Philipp Reemtsma . During this time he taught at the University of Leuphana in Lüneburg , participated in the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History and was involved in the founding of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies in 2015.

According to the scriptwriter Anna Winger, Voss was the central historical advisor for the German spy TV series Deutschland 83 . He also appeared in the accompanying RTL documentary "(K) a bit of peace" and advocated there and in a scientific article published in 2014, the Able Archer crisis of 1983 , which is at the center of the series, more in the To consider the context of a geopolitical power shift in the late phase of the Cold War. In an article in Die Welt and in another contribution about the almost simultaneous release of new sources for the crisis year 1983 in the New York Times , Voss later emphasized that the new sources supported a dramatic reading of events.

Voss has been a lecturer at the University of The Hague (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) in the course "Safety and Security Management Studies" since 2016, where he teaches intelligence studies, counterterrorism, political science and international relations.

Publications

  • Legrand's Opus Magnum. The alchemical code in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug" . In: Journal of English and American Studies. Vol. 54, No. 4, 2006, pp. 349-364 ( online ).
  • Washington's mercenaries. US Covert Intervention in the Cold War and its Consequences . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86854-274-5 .
  • ed. with Bernd Greiner , Tim B. Müller: Legacy of the Cold War . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-258-5 .
  • In case something goes wrong. Washington's mercenaries in the Cold War proxy conflicts . In: Mittelweg 36. Vol. 22, No. 3, 2013, pp. 63–90.
  • The ends of the parabola. The nuclear weapons exercise “Able Archer” in the crisis year 1983 . In: Mittelweg 36th vol. 23, no. 6, 2014, pp. 73-92 ( online ).
  • The dogs of the cold war. Mercenary memoirs and magazines as historical sources (1960–1990) . In: Contemporary historical research . Vol. 11, 2014, 1, pp. 134-144.
  • The Reintegration of Veterans as a Social History: A Programmatic Preface . In: Mittelweg 36 Vol. 24, No. 5, 2015, pp. 3–31 ( online ).
  • Plausibly Deniable: Mercenaries in US Covert Interventions during the Cold War, 1964-1987. In: Cold War History Vol. 16, No. 1, 2016, pp. 37–60.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Köhler: Ich bin ein Morgenthau - 25/2015. In: www.ossietzky.net. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Hamburger Edition: detail page. In: www.his-online.de. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ WASHINGTON'S MERCENARY. In: Martin Compart. May 15, 2015, accessed September 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Winfried Heinemann: Klaas Voss: Washington's mercenaries: Please deny credibly! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 30, 2014, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 10, 2016]).
  5. ↑ SEHEPUNKTE - Review of: Washingtons Mercenaries - Issue 14 (2014), No. 12. In: www.sehepunkte.de. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Berlin Colloquien: V - Z. In: www.berlinercolloquien.de. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  7. ^ The Berlin Cold War College. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 5 Questions with “DEUTSCHLAND 83′s” Creator Anna Winger. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015 ; accessed on September 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ 1983 (K) a little peace. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ The ends of the parable - Klaas Voss The nuclear weapons exercise. In: www.eurozine.com. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Sam Roberts: NATO War Games Unwittingly Put Soviets and US on 'Hair Trigger' in '83, Analysis Suggests . In: The New York Times . November 9, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 10, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Alan Posener: From now on, television entertainment is different . In: Welt Online . November 25, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed September 10, 2016]).
  13. ^ De Haagse Hoogeschool - Safety and Security Management Studies (SSMS). Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
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SURNAME Voss, Klaas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Klaas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany