Military history of the GDR

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The military history of the GDR is a renowned scientific book series that has been published by Ch. Links Verlag since 2001 . It was founded by the Military History Research Office (MGFA) and has been published since 2013 on behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . According to the publisher's chronicle, the agreement was made in June 2000. According to his own admission, the series serves to update the basic research in the longitudinal section on the military and security policy of the SED as well as on the armed organs of the GDR . In addition, individual problems are to be examined structurally.

Hans Ehlert , who set up Research Area IV (“Military History of the GDR in Alliance”) at MGFA, was responsible for the first eight volumes in the series. Individual works in the now twenty-five volume series were largely positively received in scientific reviews. Several dissertations and one post-doctoral thesis were postponed, and publications were created in collaboration with other research institutions. Matthias Rogg speaks of “a series of top-class monographs” in the context of the research area. Some works in the series are considered fundamental.

In the late 2000s, former members of the NVA such as Reinhard Brühl and Klaus-Peter Hartmann fundamentally criticized the conception of the research area. Gerhard P. Groß , head of the research department at MGFA at the time, countered and ascribed a "scientific leadership role" to MGFA in the field of military history research in the GDR . In the series “diversity of methods and pluralistic [] research approaches” are cultivated and the topic is broad. He contradicted the objection of an "official historiography", rather the series offers space for external authors. Former academic employees of the GDR's Military History Institute such as Torsten Diedrich and Rüdiger Wenzke also publish here.

The Science Council sees the MGFA as a "unique selling point" with regard to the research area mentioned.

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  1. ↑ Christoph Links : Publishing history 2000 to 2009 . In the S. (Ed.): Surviving with links. 20 years of Ch. Links Verlag . Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-555-3 , p. 188.
  2. ↑ Bruno Thoss : Introduction . In the S. (Ed.): The history of the NVA from the perspective of contemporary witnesses and historians. [Scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Colonel Dr. Hans Ehlert on January 30, 2007 in Potsdam] (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 3). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808882-4-0 , pp. 7-10, here: p. 8.
  3. ↑ See Paul Heider : Torsten Diedrich, Rüdiger Wenzke, The camouflaged army. History of the barracked people's police of the GDR 1952 to 1956 . In: Military History Journal 60 (2001) 2, pp. 579-581; Christian Th. Müller : Review of: Ehlert, Hans (Hrsg.): Army without a future. The end of the NVA and German unity. Contemporary witness reports and documents. Berlin 2002 . In: H-Soz-Kult , September 3, 2002; Gerhard Wettig : Review of: Wagner, Armin: Walter Ulbricht and the secret security policy of the SED. The National Defense Council of the GDR and its history (1953-1971). Berlin 2002 . In: H-Soz-Kult , December 19, 2002; Paul Heider : Army without a future. The end of the NVA and German unity. Contemporary witness reports and documents . In: Military History Journal 62 (2003) 2, pp. 646–648; Nina Leonhard : Review of: Müller, Christian Th .: A thousand days at the "Ashes". NCOs in the NVA. Berlin 2003 , in: H-Soz-Kult , June 24, 2003; Gerhard Wettig : Review of: Ehlert, Hans; Rogg, Matthias (ed.): Military, state and society in the GDR. Research fields, results, perspectives. Berlin 2004 . In: H-Soz-Kult , November 11, 2004; Christian Th. Müller : Review of: Ehlert, Hans; Wagner, Armin (Ed.): Comrade General !. The GDR military elite in biographical sketches. Berlin 2003 . In: H-Soz-Kult , March 18, 2004; Otto-Eberhard Zander : Christian Th. Müller, a thousand days with the "ashes". NCOs in the NVA . In: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 64 (2005) 1, pp. 306–309; Christian Th. Müller : Review of: Wenzke, Rüdiger (Hrsg.): Staatsfeinde in Uniform ?. Resistant behavior and political persecution in the NVA. Berlin 2005 . In: H-Soz-Kult , August 12, 2005; Gerhard Wettig : Review of: Diedrich, Torsten; Kowalczuk, Ilko-Sascha (Hrsg.): State foundation on installments ?. On the effects of the popular uprising in 1953 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 on the state, the military and society in the GDR. Berlin 2005 . In: H-Soz-Kult , April 6, 2006; Gerhard Wettig : Frank Umbach, The Red Alliance. Development and collapse of the Warsaw Pact 1955 to 1991 / A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact 1955-1991. Ed. by Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Bryne . In: Military History Journal 65 (2006) 1, pp. 332–334; Otto-Eberhard Zander : Daniel Niemetz, The field-gray legacy. The Wehrmacht Influences in the Military of the Soviet Zone / GDR . In: Military History Journal 67 (2008) 1, pp. 313-314; Clemens Heitmann : Review of: Sälters, Gerhard: Grenzpolizisten. Conformity, refusal and repression in the border police and the border troops of the GDR 1952 to 1965. Berlin 2009 . In: H-Soz-Kult , July 20, 2010; Denis Strohmeier : Rüdiger Wenzke, National People's Army. The story . In: Military History Journal 75 (2016) 2, pp. 644–646.
  4. ↑ a b c Gerhard P. Groß : Twenty years after the fall of the wall. Balance sheet and perspective of scientific research on the National People's Army . In: Hans-Hubertus Mack , László Veszprémy , Rüdiger Wenzke (eds.): The NVA and the Hungarian People's Army in the Warsaw Pact (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 15). On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-941571-15-0 , pp. 21–28, here: pp. 23 f.
  5. ^ Matthias Rogg : Military history of the GDR - more than a footnote? . In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 2 (2005) 1, pp. 95–99, here: p. 97.
  6. ↑ Marco Metzler: Introduction . In: Ders .: National People's Army. Military policy and political military in the socialist defense coalition 1955/56 to 1989/90 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-6669-0 , p. 31.
  7. ^ Herbert Reinke : Review of: Dietrich, Torsten; Wenzke, Rüdiger: The camouflaged army. History of the barracked People's Police of the GDR 1952–1956. Berlin 2001 . In: H-Soz-Kult , January 22, 2002.
  8. ^ Science Council : Scientific policy statement on the Military History Research Office (MGFA), Potsdam . Nuremberg 2005, p. 49 f.