Peter Schmoll

This article is about the German historian and non-fiction author Peter Schmoll. For the opera by Carl Maria von Weber see Peter Schmoll and his neighbors .

Peter Schmoll (* 1953 ) is a German historian and non-fiction author.

Life

After leaving school, Schmoll first completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic . At the same time he was a member of the volunteer fire brigade in Saal an der Donau . At the age of 20 he joined the Bayernoil company fire brigade . In 1994 he became head of the plant fire brigade at the refinery in Neustadt an der Donau , and from 2000 he headed the plant fire brigades at all three Bayernoil locations in Neustadt, Vohburg and Ingolstadt (the latter until the refinery was closed in 2008). 2012 Schmoll was the Landesfeuerwehrverband Bayern won the Bavarian Fire Department Honor Cross in silver. He retired in August 2013.

Schmoll, who is married and has several grandchildren, lives in Sandsbach . In the local elections in Bavaria in 2020 , he ran on the list of the Bavarian Party for a seat in the district council of the Kelheim district .

Activity as historian and author

Schmoll has been concerned with the history of aircraft production at Messerschmitt GmbH in Regensburg -prüfung and Obertraubling as well as the aerial warfare during World War II in the Regensburg area since the 1970s .

During his research, Schmoll interviewed numerous contemporary witnesses and searched the files of various archives at home and abroad, including the National Archives of the United States . He came into contact with Thomas Childers, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , and helped him work on his book about the last US bomber shot down over Germany.

His first book, Luftangriff: Regensburg und die Messerschmittwerke im Fadhreuz 1939–1945 , was published around the same time and was published in 1995 and ten years later the Mittelbayerische Zeitung called it a “standard work”. The third, expanded and revised edition was published at the end of 2019.

Two of his books have also been published in one volume and translated into English in the United Kingdom .

In addition to his work as an author, Schmoll also regularly gives public lectures on aircraft production at Messerschmitt and the aerial warfare in the Regensburg area.

Works (selection)

• Air raid: Regensburg and the Messerschmittwerke in the crosshairs 1939-1945 , MZ Buchverlag , Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-927529-12-5
• The Messerschmitt works in World War II: The aircraft production of Messerschmitt GmbH Regensburg from 1938 to 1945 , MZ Buchverlag, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-931904-38-5
• Messerschmitt giants and the Regensburg-Obertraubling Air Base 1936–1945 , MZ Buchverlag, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-934863-09-4
• Nest of Eagles: Messerschmitt Production and Flight-Testing at Regensburg 1936-1945 , Ian Allan Publishing, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-906537-12-8
• Barrage: Die Regensburger Flakhelfer , MZ Buchverlag, Regenstauf 2017, ISBN 978-3-86646-357-8
• Messerschmitt Me 109 : Production and Use , MZ Buchverlag, Regenstauf 2017, ISBN 978-3-86646-356-1
• Regensburg - the catastrophe of August 17, 1943 , MZ Buchverlag, Regenstauf 2018, ISBN 978-3-86646-369-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schmoll in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kerstin Hafner: He digs up the old memories on www.mittelbayerische.de , July 25, 2017
• Helmut Wanner: A firefighter in the great world fire on www.mittelbayerische.de, November 15, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johanna Loquai: Peter Schmoll honored: Head of the BAYERNOIL works fire brigade awarded the Bavarian Fire Brigade Cross of Honor in Silver in: Bayernoil Journal issue 2/2012 , page 22 f. (PDF)
2. ↑ "We want to represent the interests of our homeland" on www.donaukurier.de , October 29, 2019
3. ↑ Thomas Childers: Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II , Da Capo Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-201-40722-8
4. ↑ Thomas Dietz: "This terrible whistling of the falling bombs" in: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , March 14, 2005
5. ↑ Ursula Hildebrand: Revised book shows the city of Regensburg in the crosshairs of allied bombers on www.wochenblatt.de , November 6, 2019
6. ^ Program 2006 on the website of the Dolina Gesellschaft für Landeskunde eV
7. ↑ 400 people had to die here - Hitler's secret aircraft tunnel near Teugn on www.wochenblatt.de , February 12, 2014
8. ↑ Lecture on Messerschmitt forest works on www.mz.de , March 6, 2018
9. ↑ Eleven lectures in Weltenburg at www.donaukurier.de , March 1, 2019