Peter Lieb

Peter Lieb (* 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German military historian .

Life

After completing his military service (W12) in 1993/94 with Fallschirmjägerbataillon 251 in Calw , Lieb studied economics in 1994/95 and from 1995 to 2001 modern history, the history of Eastern Europe and business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Pau and the University of Paris XII . After completing his Magister Artium (MA) in Munich, he was a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute in Paris . From 2001 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History . In 2005 he started with Horst Möller at the LMU Munich with the dissertation Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg? Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44 as Dr. phil. PhD.

In it, Lieb traces the illegal German occupation policy and warfare in the western theater of war. He differentiates between the associations of the Wehrmacht and the SS . The latter fought an ideological struggle, while the Wehrmacht was guided by the idea of ​​military expediency, but at the same time only rarely protested against this division of tasks. In 2006, Lieb was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences and the Prix Guillaume-Fichet / Octave-Simon for his work, which was carried out as part of the Wehrmacht in the Nazi Dictatorship project at the Institute for Contemporary History . The book version of Lieb's dissertation, published in 2007, received positive reviews. The modern historian Sönke Neitzel, for example, praised it as an “exemplary study”, while Roman Töppel from the Institute for Contemporary History spoke of a “standard work on the history of the war in the West 1943/44”. On the other hand, Armin Nolzen accused Lieb of having “only insufficiently penetrated his subject”. Lieb took "the perspective of the sources, so that he underestimated the criminal role of the Wehrmacht in France".

Lieb was Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) from 2005 to 2015 and became a Research Fellow at the Center for European Security at the University of Salford in 2006 . He also taught a. a. at the University of Reading . In 2015 he became a research assistant in the Education Department, Fundamentals Department at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam. Lieb does research on the subject of military history and is u. a. Member of the Military History Working Group , the Army Records Society and the German Committee for the History of the Second World War . In 2009 he was an expert witness in the trial against Josef Scheungraber at the Munich I Regional Court . He worked as a consultant for Arte , for example . He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War in Graz-Vienna-Raabs. Lieb published u. a. in Military History Journal , Journal of Strategic Studies and Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte .

Lieb has been a reserve officer in the Army since 2004 and currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the mountain troops . He does reserve services at the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn and as a trainer at the mountain and winter combat school (Geb / WiKpfS) in Mittenwald.

Fonts (selection)

• Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? Warfare and fighting partisans in France 1943/44 (= sources and representations on contemporary history , volume 69). R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57992-5 .
• with Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Dieter Pohl : The German War in the East 1941–1944. Facets of crossing borders (= sources and representations on contemporary history , Volume 76). R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59138-5 .
• with Wolfram Dornik , Georgiy Kasianov, Hannes Leidinger , Alekseij Miller, Bogdan Musiał , Vasyl Rasevyc: The Ukraine. Between self-determination and foreign rule 1917–1922 (= publications by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War , special volume 13). Leykam Buchverlag, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7011-0209-9 .
• Vercors 1944. Resistance in the French Alps . Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84908-698-1 .
• Company Overlord. The invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Western Europe (= Beck'sche Reihe , 6129). Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66071-9 . (see also editions of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and various state agencies)
• ed. with Jan Erik Schulte , Bernd Wegner : The Waffen-SS. New research (= War in History , Volume 74). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77383-8 .
• The war in North Africa 1940–1943 . Reclam, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011161-1 .
• The battle for Berlin and the end of the Third Reich in 1945 . Reclam, Ditzingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-15-011272-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Lieb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Lieb at perlentaucher.de
• Peter Lieb at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr
• Peter Lieb (PDF) at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Brakel: Lieb, Peter: Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg? Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44. Munich 2007 (review). H-Soz-u-Kult , January 4, 2008.
2. ↑ Sönke Neitzel : Approaching the Eastern Front. The German warfare in France 1943/1944 (review). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 35, February 11, 2009, p. 7.
3. ^ Roman Töppel: Peter Lieb: Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg? (Rec.). Sehepunkte , Issue 11 (2011), No. 12.
4. ↑ Review by Armin Nolzen in: Archive for Social History , October 30, 2007.
5. ^ German Committee for the History of the Second World War , MGFA, accessed on March 22, 2014.