Klaus Schmider

Klaus Schmider (* 1966 ) is a German military historian .

Life

Klaus Schmider studied Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Public Law at the University of Mainz . In 1994 he delivered his master's thesis on The First Year of War in the Mediterranean Region 1940–1941 . Since May 1999 he has worked in the War Studies Department of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, Great Britain as a Senior Lecturer . In 2001 he received his doctorate with Winfried Baumgart in Mainz with the thesis The Partisan War in Yugoslavia 1941-1944 , 2006 in exchange with the Academia de Guerra del Ejército de Chile and 2017 with the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. He is co-author of volume 8 of the World War II series of the ZMSBW (formerly MGFA):.

Fonts (selection)

• The partisan war in Yugoslavia 1941–1944 . Hamburg - Berlin - Bonn 2002. ISBN 978-3-8132-0794-1
• The German Reich and the Second World War , The Eastern Front 1943/44 - The War in the East and on the Side Fronts , pp. 1008-1088
• Hitler's fatal miscalculation: why Germany declared war on the United States (Cambridge University Press, January 2021)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Frieser , Klaus Schmider, Klaus Schönherr , Gerhard Schreiber , Krisztián Ungváry , Bernd Wegner: The Eastern Front 1943/44 - The War in the East and on the Secondary Fronts . On behalf of the MGFA ed. by Karl-Heinz Frieser, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2007, XVI, 1320 S., ISBN 978-3-421-06235-2 , S. 1318.