Matthias Rogg

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Colonel Matthias Rogg (2011)

Matthias Rogg (* 1963 in Wittmund ) is a German officer ( colonel ) and historian specializing in military history .

Rogg was initially an employee of the Military History Research Office . From 2010 to 2017 he was director of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden. In 2017 he moved to the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In addition, he has been Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg since 2013, making him the first active Bundeswehr soldier to receive a professorship outside of the medical service.

For his dissertation on the image of the soldier in the 16th century he was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize in 2000.

Life

Rogg comes from a family of soldiers and was born in the East Frisian district town of Wittmund in 1963 . After graduating from high school in 1982 at the Hofenfels-Gymnasium Zweibrücken in Rhineland-Palatinate, he joined the Bundeswehr in 1983 as an officer candidate (OA) for the armored force . From 1983 to 1986 he was a troop officer a. a. Trained at the Army Officer School (OSH) in Hanover and then deployed in staff and troop assignments with Panzerbataillon 543 in Hermeskeil . From 1989 to 1993 he studied modern and contemporary history , art history and medieval history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1994 to 1998 he was involved in setting up the Museum of the Thirty Years War in Wittstock an der Dosse. In 1998 he was at Bernhard R. Kroener at the University of Freiburg with the military and social history oriented dissertation soldiers pictures - studies of pictorial representation of men of war in the 16th century to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1998 to 1999 he was head of the NCO training company in Braunschweig . From 1999 to 2008, the historian's staff officer was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Potsdam, where he worked as a staff officer in the function of head of office and press spokesman. He was also an author for the in-house military history journal Military History Journal (MGZ). He completed his habilitation in 2008 with the work Army of the People? Studies on the relationship between the military and society in the GDR at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam and acquired the Venia Legendi for Modern History. The other reviewers were Christoph Kleßmann and Thomas Großbölting . From 2008 to 2009 he was a consultant in the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense (PlStab) in Berlin. He was u. a. involved in the conception of the memorial of the Bundeswehr on the grounds of the Bendlerblock in Berlin and wrote speeches for the then Federal Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung (CDU).

Ceremony for the reopening of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr (2011), v. l. To the right: Stanislaw Tillich , Daniel Libeskind , Thomas de Maizière and Matthias Rogg

After a renewed use in the MGFA, he became director of the later reopened Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden in June 2010; his area of ​​responsibility includes a. the Military History Museum at Berlin-Gatow Airfield and the exhibitions at Königstein Fortress . In addition, he was a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam. At the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, he has a teaching position at the chair for the history of the early modern period with special consideration of social and economic history. In 2013 he was appointed professor here as the first officer outside the medical service. In 2017 Rogg moved to the leadership academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, where he is head of the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies .

His academic focus lies in the fields of cultural and military history , the history of the GDR and historical education. He published several books. In 2013 he was available to ZDF as an expert advisor for historical research on the three-part television film Our Mothers, Our Fathers, along with other historians.

He is a member of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and has been appointed to the 12th Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) since 2015 .

Rogg is married and has two children; he lives in Dresden and Potsdam .

Awards

reception

Heike Talkenberg , who has a doctorate in history, commented on his 1998 in the publishing house Ferdinand Schöningh as Landsknechte and Reisläufer. Pictures of the soldiers moved dissertation in 2002 in the open access online review journal See points with "Despite [...] weaknesses Roggs study can be seen as an important contribution to the social history of the military in the 16th century, especially its broad source base her convincing analysis of the function of soldier images for early modern society and detailed observations are impressive. "

On Deutschlandfunk , the media scientist Klaus Kreimeier commented on the work War and the Military in Film of the 20th Century (2003), which was published with Bernhard Chiari and Wolfgang Schmidt by R. Oldenbourg Verlag : The volume allows “specialists from different disciplines to learn about their work with the help of well-founded texts to orientate neighboring fields of knowledge. At the same time, it gives readers who are not scientifically specialized, but who are interested in the subject, a variety of interpretation aids to get started with the main historical section: German war film history from the first weekly film show in 1914 to the National Socialist feature and cultural film to the army film studio of the National People's Army. A total of 16 texts from the pen of mostly younger cultural and film scholars come together to form an overall picture that does justice to the current state of research, even if - as in the case of National Socialist films - not all aspects could be dealt with. "

Gerhard Wettig , former head of the foreign and security policy research department at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne, reviewed the work Military, State and Society in the GDR (2004) published with Hans Ehlert at H-Soz-u-Kult : “Der [...] The anthology offers not only important and reliable insights to readers who are specifically interested in the history of the East German military, but to all those who want to find out more about the GDR in general and the context of the division of Germany. "

His post- doctoral thesis, Army of the People? The military and society in the GDR from 2008 was reviewed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2009 by Gunther Holzweißig , government director at the Federal Archives in Berlin, as follows: “The remarkably fluent study is richly illustrated. It gives the expert new insights into militarized everyday life in the GDR, which were previously slumbering in the archives. Despite its size and its exhaustive scientific apparatus, it can be recommended to politically interested laypeople. "

Fonts (selection)

Monographs (authorship)

Editorships

  • with Bernhard Chiari , Wolfgang Schmidt : War and the military in the film of the 20th century (= contributions to military history, volume 59). R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56716-0 .
  • with Hans Ehlert : Military, State and Society in the GDR. Research fields, results, perspectives (= military history of the GDR, volume 8). Ch. Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-329-4 .
  • with Arnim Lang: Potsdam history. Forays into the 20th century . be.bra verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-86124-589-6 .
  • with Jutta Nowosadtko : “Mars and the Muses”. The interplay between the military, war and art in the early modern period (= rule and social systems in the early modern period, Volume 5). Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-9809-0 .
  • with Gorch Pieken : The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. Exhibition guide . Sandstein, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-69-7 .
  • with Martin Winter: Raymundus Bruns . Memories of Catholic religious life and military pastoral care in Prussia in the 18th century. Translation from the Commentarium . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-7930-9701-3 .
  • with Gorch Pieken, Jens Wehner: Stalingrad. An exhibition of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr . Sandstein, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-95498-009-3 .
  • with Christian Th. Müller : This is military history! Problems, projects, perspectives. For Bernhard R. Kroener on his 65th birthday . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77657-0 .
  • with Gerhard Bauer, Gorch Pieken: Bloody Romanticism. 200 years of wars of liberation. Essays and catalog . 2 volumes, Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-037-6 .
  • with Gorch Pieken: Right-wing extremist violence in Germany. 1990–2013 (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 3). Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-014-7 .
  • with Gorch Pieken: Shoes from the dead. Dresden and the Shoah (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 4). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-054-3 .
  • with Stephan Huck , Gorch Pieken: The fleet falls asleep in the port. Everyday life in the war 1914–1918 in sailors' diaries (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 6). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-095-6 .
  • with Angelika Dörfler-Dierken : Martin Luther : Whether soldiers can also be in a happy position (= writings of the Evangelical Pastoral Care in the Bundeswehr). On behalf of the Evangelical Military Bishop, Ed. Akanthus, Delitzsch 2014.
  • with Gorch Pieken, Ansgar Snethlage: Schlachthof 5 - Dresden's destruction in literary evidence. An exhibition on February 13, 1945. [Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Dresden, February 6 to May 12, 2015] . Sandstein, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95498-139-7 .
  • with Gorch Pieken: 60 years of the Bundeswehr . Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-191-5 .
  • with Magnus Pahl , Gorch Pieken: Watch out for spies. Secret services in Germany 1945 to 1956. Essays and catalog in a slipcase (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, vol. 11). 2 volumes, Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-210-3 .
  • with Sophie Scheidt, Hartwig von Schubert : Ethical Challenges of Digital Change in Armed Conflicts , German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-948752-00-2 . ( Open Access ).

Web links

Commons : Matthias Rogg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Brunner: A well-known military historian ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Zweibrücker Rundschau , No. 27, February 1, 2006, p. 14.
  2. ^ Matthias Rogg: Army of the People? Studies on the relationship between the military and society in the GDR , Berlin 2008, p. XIV.
  3. ↑ Video: Memorial - Dr. Matthias Rogg in an interview . Federal Ministry of Defense , September 8, 2009.
  4. ↑ Colonel Dr. Matthias Rogg appointed professor , News from the Armed Forces Command, July 2013.
  5. ↑ https://gids-hamburg.de/der-vorstand/ Board of GIDS
  6. ↑ Günther Schulz (Ed.): Social ascent. Functional elites in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period (= Büdinger research on social history, 2000/2001). H. Boldt in R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56612-1 , p. 449.
  7. ↑ Excellent! , streitkraeftebasis.de, October 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ Heike Talkenberger: Review of: Landsknechte and Reisläufer: Images of soldiers . Sehepunkte , Issue 3 (2003), No. 9.
  9. ↑ Klaus Kreimeier : Bernhard Chiari, Matthias Rogg and Wolfgang Schmidt (eds.): War and the military in the film of the 20th century (review). Political literature ( Deutschlandfunk ), February 2, 2004.
  10. ^ Gerhard Wettig : Ehlert, Hans; Rogg, Matthias (ed.): Military, state and society in the GDR. Research fields, results, perspectives. Berlin 2004 (review). H-Soz-u-Kult , November 11, 2004.
  11. ^ Gunter Holzweissig: Education to hate. Militarized GDR daily life with great dissatisfaction (review). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 40, February 17, 2009, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Rogg, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer (colonel) and historian with a focus on military history
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittmund