Michael Foedrowitz

Michael Foedrowitz (2015)

Michael Foedrowitz (* 1953 in Hanover ) is a German historian of contemporary history , journalist and academic publicist .

Life

Michael Foedrowitz was born a few years after the end of the Second World War in 1953 in Hanover's Zoo district. After graduating from school, he studied Central and Eastern European contemporary history and German at the University of Hanover from 1975 to 1985 . During this time he also stayed in Spain, Algeria and Holland in 1976 and 1977 and accompanied various rock bands on numerous tours as a photographer during his studies.

From 1988 to 1989 Foedrowitz also studied in Warsaw and London as part of a scholarship abroad . He then worked as a freelance worker on numerous film and television documentaries, including for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Polish television. He also gave numerous lectures at universities in England and Poland.

Foedrowitz has been researching bunkers in Northern Germany since 1994 and has published several publications about them, for example in Berlin's Christoph Links Verlag .

Fonts (selection)

• The Stalin organ. Soviet multiple rocket launchers (= Das Waffen-Arsenal / special volume , p. 30), Friedberg / H. (Dorheim): Podzun-Pallas, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7909-0480-2 and ISBN 3-7909-0480-5
  • Les orgues de Staline (= Arsenal , 5), Erpe: Edition De Krijger, 2003, ISBN 90-5868-083-5
• Fire engines in use 1939–1945. Firestorm and Wassergasse , Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7909-0517-5 and ISBN 3-7909-0517-8
  • German firefighting vehicles in World War II , Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1997, ISBN 0-7643-0191-8
• The Soviet field artillery and its use in the Wehrmacht (= Das Waffen-Arsenal , Vol. 156), Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, circa 1995, ISBN 978-3-7909-0540-3 and ISBN 3-7909-0540- 2
• The flak towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. 1940–1950 (= Das Waffen-Arsenal / Sonderband , p. 44), Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, circa 1996, ISBN 978-3-7909-0575-5
  • The flak towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, 1940–1950 , Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1998, ISBN 0-7643-0398-8
• Air defense towers and their types. 1934–1945 , Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7909-0656-1 and ISBN 3-7909-0656-5
• The Winkel air defense towers in Germany from 1936 to today (= Das Waffen-Arsenal , Vol. 175), Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7909-0632-5 and ISBN 3-7909-0632- 8th
• Bunker worlds. Air raid protection systems in Northern Germany , 1st edition, Berlin: Links, 1998, ISBN 978-3-86153-155-5 and ISBN 3-86153-155-0 ; contents
• German fog throwers on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (= Das Waffen-Arsenal / Special, Vol. 25), Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7909-0670-7 and ISBN 3-7909-0670- 0
• One-man bunker. Splinter protection structures and fire watch stands , 1st edition, Stuttgart: MotorbuchVerlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-613-02748-0 and ISBN 3-613-02748-8 ; contents
• Bunker of the German speed and clearing boat bases on the Channel coast during World War II. A historical consideration of the large structures of the German Navy , 2nd edition, Valkenburg a / d Geul: Silvertant Erfgoedprojecten, 2014, ISBN 978-90-817853-8-9 ; contents
• Petrol bomb bunker. The air-raid shelters of the German chemical and fuel industry in World War II , Gulpen: Verlag Silvertant Erfgoedprojecten, 2014, ISBN 978-90-817853-1-0 and ISBN 90-817853-1-1 ; contents

Web links

Commons : Michael Foedrowitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• michael-foedrowitz.de , website of the journalist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information and cross-references from the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c} o.V. : Author portrait / Michael Foedrowitz on the page christoph-links-verlag.de [undated], last accessed on October 23, 2017