Otto-Eberhard Zander

Otto-Eberhard Zander (born April 27, 1944 in Göttingen ) is a retired German officer and political scientist .

Life

After graduating from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium , Zander joined the army in 1965 . He was personnel officer for internal leadership and political education in Kiel, personnel officer at the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland in Rendsburg and press officer at the information and press office of the Bundeswehr in Berlin. From 1980 he studied pedagogy , political and social sciences and psychology at the Distance University in Hagen . In 1987 he completed his studies with a Magister Artium . He was retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr in 1994 .

In 1996/97 he was a guest student, from 1998 a student of political science and modern and contemporary history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . With a doctoral thesis on the traditions of the Bundeswehr and the National People's Army , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1996 he worked for the Military History Research Office , the Federal Academy for Security Policy and the press and information staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 2001 to 2005 he was a lecturer in the social sciences department of the Bundeswehr leadership academy . He came to the Institute for Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen through Peter Lösche in 2003 . Since 2012 he has been a lecturer at the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research .

Zander mainly deals with the 19th and 20th centuries. The publications and master’s seminars of recent years have been about Otto von Bismarck , John F. Kennedy , Wolfgang Natonek and Willy Brandt .

Publications

• Bundeswehr and National People's Army. Traditions of two German armed forces. 1st edition. Trafo Verlagsgruppe , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-38962-6665-1 (also dissertation, University of Kiel 2000);
  • 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Trafo, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86464-007-0 .
• with Daniel Niemetz: The field-gray legacy. The Wehrmacht Influences in the Military of the Soviet Zone / GDR. In: Military history reports , Issue 1, 2008, ISSN  0026-3826 , p. 313.
• Three weddings and an alliance - marriages as instruments of noble power politics. In: INDES - Journal for Politics and Society ( Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ), Issue 2, 2013, ISSN  2191-995X , pp. 109–113.
• Bismarck and his debauchery as a student (1832/33). In: Franz Walter and Teresa Nentwig (eds.): The hurt Gänseliesel. 250 years of scandal stories in Göttingen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30080-0 , pp. 55-64.
• with Kurt Walter Stengert: ... Those who come under the protection of St. Barbara's ... The tradition of the Barbara's celebrations in German artillery from its beginnings to the present. 1st edition. Trafo, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86464-105-3 ( review by Clausewitz-Gesellschaft e.V. ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto-Eberhard Zander in the catalog of the German National Library
• official website of the Institute for the Study of Democracy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research
2. ↑ Topic of the master's thesis: Moral education as a problem of political education in the concept of internal leadership in the Bundeswehr .
3. ↑ Dissertation: Problems and Aspects of Tradition in the New German Armed Forces in West and East. A comparison of the traditions of the Bundeswehr and the National People's Army (1950-1990)
4. ↑ However