Klaus-Jürgen Müller

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Klaus-Jürgen Müller (born February 27, 1930 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ; † January 30, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German historian .

Müller passed his Abitur at the Hansa School in Bergedorf. He then studied history and Latin in 1949/50 at the University of Freiburg i. Br. And from 1950 to 1955 at the University of Hamburg . The first and second state exams followed in 1955 and 1957. In 1955 he received his doctorate at the history seminar in Hamburg with Egmont Zechlin with a thesis on the British-French relationship in 1940. From 1955 to 1959 Müller was in the Hamburg school service. He then worked at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg from 1959 to 1967 . There he worked on the archival materials returned from the United States on the former German Wehrmacht . In 1970 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Das Heer und Hitler. Army and National Socialist regime 1933–1940 . The study received the highest recognition in specialist circles and became the authoritative work. From 1967 to 1970 he was a lecturer at the staff academy of the Bundeswehr Hamburg.

From 1970 to 1973 Müller taught as a professor for modern history and didactics of history at the Pedagogical University in Ludwigsburg , in 1973 he switched to a professorship for modern history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , which he held until his retirement in 1995. His academic students included Eckard Michels , Thomas Eugen Scheerer , Gerhard Schreiber and Bernd Wegner (who became his successor). Müller had been honorary professor at the University of Hamburg since 1977. He was visiting professor in Tel Aviv (1975), at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (1984), the Université Paul Valérie à Montpellier (1987) and at St Antony's College (1991/1992). From 1982 to 1986 Müller was chairman of the Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany for the history of the Second World War. From 1988 to 1990 he was President of the Franco-German Committee for the History of France and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries. He was a member of the Clausewitz Society .

His main research interests were the history of international relations, Franco-German relations , contemporary French history, the history of the military in the 20th century and the German resistance to National Socialism . His work on Colonel General Ludwig Beck (2008) is considered a standard work. Müller dealt with Beck for more than four decades. In 1980 he presented an extensive study of the political and military imagination of the Chief of Staff. According to Müller's thesis, Beck was one of the most prominent representatives of a "two-pillar theory", according to which the army and the party should direct the Nazi state as equal power factors. In 1987, Müller received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services in building the University of the Federal Armed Forces . In 1990 he was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques with the highest academic award in France. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris XII Val de Marne .

Müller was married from 1960. The marriage had two children.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Ernst Willi Hansen, Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Wegner (eds.): Political change, organized violence and national security. Contributions to the recent history of Germany and France. Festschrift for Klaus-Jürgen Müller (= contributions to military history. Vol. 50). Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56063-8 , pp. 551-558.

Monographs

  • Army, Politics and Society in Germany 1933–1945. Studies on the relationship between the army and the Nazi system. 4th edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1986, ISBN 3-506-77451-4 .
  • The army and Hitler. Army and National Socialist Regime, 1933–1940. 2nd Edition. DVA, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-01482-5 .
  • Colonel General Ludwig Beck. A biography. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-72874-6 .

Editorships

  • with Wolfgang von Groote : Napoleon I and the military system of his time. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1968.

literature

  • Ernst Willi Hansen, Gerhard Schreiber , Bernd Wegner (eds.): Political change, organized violence and national security. Contributions to the recent history of Germany and France. Festschrift for Klaus-Jürgen Müller (= contributions to military history. Vol. 50). Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56063-8 .
  • Maurice Vaïsse: Klaus-Jürgen Müller (1930–2011). In: Francia , Vol. 38 (2011), pp. 327-328 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Müller: The military, politics and the state in the thinking of Ludwig Becks. In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2009 . Volume 5, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810794-4-9 , p. 264.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Rainer Behring in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 57 (2009), pp. 184–186; Rolf Faber in: Nassau Annals. 119 (2008), pp. 554-556.
  3. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Müller: General Ludwig Beck. Studies and documents on the political-military imagination and activities of the Chief of Staff of the German Army 1933–1938. Boppard on the Rhine in 1980.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Klaus-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Bergedorf
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2011
Place of death Hamburg