Manfred Beike

Manfred Beike is a German naval and military historian.

Manfred Beike received his doctorate in 1987 with the thesis The Marxist-Leninist Military Science on the principles of the art of war. The application and development of principles of the art of war by the commanders of the ancient Greco-Roman war fleet and the resulting significance for the present at the military academy "Friedrich Engels" of the NVA in Dresden . In a revised form, the book was published as Naval Wars in Antiquity , it was widely distributed and a second edition was published in 1990. In 1990 Beike returned to the Military Academy in Dresden, where he taught as a lecturer, his dissertation B on the topic of the history of naval warfare up to the end of the Second World War and the development tendencies that took place in it . Even after the political change, Beike continued to publish on these topics.

Fonts

• Warships and naval wars of antiquity . Military publishing house, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00289-4 , ( Brief military history. Wars ).
• Kaleidoscope of naval battles . Volume 1: Armada, Trafalgar, Tsushima, “Bismarck” . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-327-00910-4 .
• Famous naval battles 1862-1945 . Militzke, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-86189-286-3 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 125.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Beike in the catalog of the German National Library