Rüdiger Overmans

Rüdiger Overmans (* 6. April 1954 in Dusseldorf ) is a German officer ( Lieutenant Colonel ret. ), Economists and military historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Overmans joined the German Armed Forces in 1972 and was trained as an officer in the service of the army's telecommunications service . From 1974 to 1977 he studied economics and organizational science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , which he completed with a diploma thesis in economic history ( Diplom-Kaufmann ), before becoming a research assistant at the Institute for Personnel and Labor at the university in 1982 of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and in 1986 with Michel Domsch in the human resources department with the dissertation Personnel Development Programs with special consideration of the professional development in the Federal Armed Forces to the Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate.

From 1987 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) of the Bundeswehr in Freiburg im Breisgau , and later in Potsdam . In 1996 he was in Hans Fenske in the subject Modern History with the dissertation German military losses in World War II at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg to Dr. phil. PhD. This study, first published in 1999 by Oldenbourg Verlag in Munich and the third edition in 2004, is considered a standard work. Overmans was a lecturer at the History Department of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1996 to 2001. By his retirement in 2004 he had reached the military rank of lieutenant colonel.

He has been working as a freelance historian , scientific advisor and reviewer since the 2000s . As part of the relevant historians' commission, he prepared an expert report on the number of victims in the bombing raids on Dresden in February 1945. Reviews of him appeared a. a. in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the HPB and the military history magazine . He also published in the Historisches Lexikon Bayerns and participated in television and radio productions. His main research interests are World War II , captivity, and flight and displacement .

He is a member of the Military History Working Group , the German Association of Historians and the German section of the Comité international d'histoire militaire . Since 2010 he has been a member of LISA - the science portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation .

Overmanns is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• with Michel Domsch , Gernot Groehn: Officers on the labor market. On the employment opportunities of officers / business administration graduates in the private sector (= European University Theses / Series 5 / Economics and Business Administration . Vol. 561). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1984, ISBN 3-8204-5392-X .
• Human resource development programs. Evaluation and design of programs with special consideration of professional advancement in the Bundeswehr (= European university publications / series 5 / economics and business administration . Vol. 767). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9421-9 (= also dissertation, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, 1986).
• German military losses in World War II (= contributions to military history . Vol. 46). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56332-7 (= also dissertation. University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1996).

• Study edition: 2000, ISBN 3-486-56531-1 .
• 3rd edition: 2004, ISBN 3-486-20028-3 .

• Soldiers behind barbed wire. German prisoners of war of the Second World War . In cooperation with Ulrike Goeken-Haidl, Propylaen, Berlin a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-549-07121-3 .

• Ullstein: 2002, ISBN 3-548-36328-8 .

Editorships

• In the hands of the enemy. Captivity from antiquity to World War II . In connection with the Working Group on Military History , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-412-14998-5 .
• with Günter Bischof : Captivity in the Second World War. A comparative perspective . Höller, Ternitz-Pottschach 1999, ISBN 3-85226-078-7 .
• with Andreas Hilger and Pavel Polian : Red Army soldiers in German hands. Documents on the captivity, repatriation and rehabilitation of Soviet soldiers of the Second World War . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76545-1 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• The prisoner of war policy of the German Reich 1939 to 1945 . In: The German War Society 1939–1945 . Second half volume: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion . Published by Jörg Echternkamp on behalf of the Military History Research Office . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2005 (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 9 / 1-2), pp. 729–875, ISBN 3-421-06528-4 .
• The fate of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War . In: The collapse of the German Empire in 1945 . Second half volume: The consequences of the Second World War . Published by Rolf-Dieter Müller on behalf of the Military History Research Office . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2008 (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 10 / 1-2), ISBN 3-421-04338-8 , pp. 379–507.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Overmans in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Rüdiger Overmans at perlentaucher.de
• Website from Rüdiger Overmans

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Neutzner (ed.): Final report of the commission of historians to the air raids on Dresden from 13 to 15 February 1945 . P. 4 ( PDF ; 2.9 MB)