Peter Andreas Popp

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Peter Andreas Popp (born October 2, 1958 in Nördlingen ) is a German officer ( lieutenant colonel ) and historian .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1978 at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Nördlingen, where he had attended the humanistic branch, he did basic military service with the army telecommunications service . He was then trained as a reserve officer. In 1979/80 he studied law and from 1980 to 1985 history and political science at the University of Augsburg . He received a scholarship from the Bavarian School for Talented Students and obtained a Magister Artium (MA) in 1985 . He then received a graduate scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundationand PhD student at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History ( Josef Becker ). He was also a research assistant at the chairs for Ancient History ( Gunther Gottlieb ) and Political Science. In 1994 he was with the dissertation nation-state and international order of states in the policy of the Center Party , 1919-32 to Dr. phil. PhD .

A year later, Popp was re-setter in the Air Force of the Armed Forces . From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant ( historian officer ) at the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden and from 1998 to 2004 at the Military History Research Office (MGFA; today: Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr ) in Potsdam. In 1998 he became a staff officer at the head of the MGFA, Colonel i. G. Friedhelm Klein , and in 2001 division manager in the department “Training, Information, Specialized Studies” AIF III (inquiries). Since 2004, the lieutenant colonel has been teaching staff officer for military history and political education at the Air Force Officers' School (OSLw) in Fürstenfeldbruck. His main research interests are German military history, the history of international politics, strategy and security policy , political ideas and systems , interculturality and ethics.

In 2011 he was awarded the Bernhard Weiß Medal of the Association of Jewish Soldiers . He was largely responsible for the special exhibition "German Jewish Soldiers" of the MGFA in cooperation with the Centrum Judaicum Berlin and the Moses Mendelssohn Center Potsdam and was involved as a lecturer at the OSLw with visits to the Dachau concentration camp memorial .

He published u. a. in the Gneisenau-Blätter series (at the OSLw) as well as the specialist journals Military History Journal and Germany Archive . In 2013 he became a permanent employee of the popular science magazine Clausewitz .

Fonts (selection)

Editorships

  • with Eberhard Birk , Thorsten Loch (ed.): How Friedrich became “the great”. A little history of the Seven Years' War 1756 to 1763 . In cooperation with the Military History Research Office and the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7930-9711-2 .
  • with Eberhard Birk, Thorsten Loch (ed.): How Napoleon came to Waterloo. A short history of the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 . Rombach, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7930-9802-7 .
  • with Eberhard Birk (Ed.): LwOffz21. The self-image of the Air Force officer at the beginning of the 21st century (= writings on the history of the German Air Force . Vol. 5). Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945861-32-5 .

Edits

  • with Jörg Duppler (arr.): Paths to friendship. Selected evidence of German-American relations 1507–1995. An exhibition by the Military History Research Office, Potsdam, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC Ed. By the Military History Research Office , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996.

Contributions

  • The Paulskirche constitution as a model for the Basic Law? (1848 / 49-1948 / 49) . In: Johann Pleninger (editing): Politics and the constitution in a contemporary historical context (= Armis et Litteri . Vol. 23). Edited by the University of Applied Sciences in Military Leadership at the Theresian Military Academy Wiener Neustad, Vienna 2009, pp. 47–71.
  • The attempt to make today's younger generation feel concerned about the Nazi crimes. Museum education using the example of the exhibition "German Jewish Soldiers" . In: Michael Berger , Gideon Römer-Hillebrecht (Ed.) Jews and the military in Germany. Between integration, assimilation, exclusion and annihilation (= forum inner leadership . Vol. 31). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4471-1 , pp. 321-328.
  • German dualism and the German question in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Thorsten Loch, Lars Zacharias (ed.): How the Victory Column came to Berlin. A short history of the wars of unification from 1864 to 1871 . In cooperation with the Military History Research Office, Potsdam, and the Napoleon Museum Thurgau , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-7930-9668-9 , pp. 17-24.
  • Roots of self-image Values ​​- virtues - ethos . In: Eberhard Birk, Winfried Heinemann , Sven Lange (eds.): Tradition for the Bundeswehr - new aspects of an old debate . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937885-60-5 , pp. 89-104.
  • with Eberhard Birk: Commitment and military history (training) education. A contradiction? . In: Dieter H. Kollmer (Ed.): "Think from the start!". Significance and use of military history at the beginning of the 21st century (= Potsdam writings on military history . Vol. 22). On behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-941571-26-6 , pp. 73–91.
  • The battle for Kiautschou and Tsingtau. August to November 1914 . In: Markus Pöhlmann , Harald Potempa , Thomas Vogel (eds.): The First World War 1914–1918. The German deployment into a warlike century . Commissioned by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Bucher, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7658-2033-5 , pp. 274–281.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Krauss : "There is more anti-Semitism" (conversation with Michael Berger ). In: Jüdische Allgemeine , No. 37, September 15, 2011, p. 1.
  2. ↑ See legal notice, Clausewitz, No. 6, 6/2013, November – December, 3rd year, p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Peter Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer (lieutenant colonel) and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen