Rüdiger Wenzke

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Rüdiger Wenzke (born July 5, 1955 in Baruth / Mark ) is a German historian . He is Senior Scientific Director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Life

Wenzke studied history from 1976 to 1981 at the University of Leipzig . He then worked as a research assistant and later as a senior assistant at the Military History Institute of the GDR in Potsdam. In 1986 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

After the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was taken over by the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in 1990/91 and initially worked here in Research Area IV, Military History of the GDR in the Alliance (the Warsaw Pact). In 2008/09 he was acting head of the research area. In 2013 he became project manager for the military history of the GDR in the research area military history since 1945. Since 2014 he has been head of the research area for military history after 1945 at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr. Wenzke has the official title of Senior Scientific Director.

His research work includes numerous essays and monographs on the military history of the GDR and the Warsaw Pact .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Prague Spring - Prague Autumn. On the intervention of the Warsaw Pact armed forces in the ČSSR in 1968. Facts and connections (= current history ). Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-327-01050-1 .
  • The NVA and the Prague Spring 1968: The role of Ulbricht and the GDR armed forces in the suppression of the Czechoslovak reform movement (= research on GDR history . Vol. 5). Ch. Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-082-1 .
  • with Klaus Froh : The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical handbook (= research on GDR society ). Edited by the Military History Research Office, Ch. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-438-X . (5th edition 2007)
  • with Torsten Diedrich : The camouflaged army: history of the barracked people's police of the GDR 1952 to 1956 (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 1). Edited by the Military History Research Office, Ch. Links, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-242-5 .
  • For military-historical research about the military academy ´Friedrich Engels´ of the NVA. In: Military Academy 'Friedrich Engels'. Historical-critical review of the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Supplementary lecture (contributions) to the colloquium on January 10, 2009 in Dresden City Hall. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers , Dresden 2009, issue 95, pp. 35–47. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-321515
  • Off to Schwedt! The history of the GDR military penal system. Ch. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-638-3 .
  • Ulbricht's soldiers. The National People's Army 1956 to 1971 (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 22). Published by the Military History Research Office, Ch. Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-696-3 .
  • National Peoples Army. The story . Bucher, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7658-2048-9 .

Editorships

  • Public enemies in uniform? Resistant behavior and political persecution in the NVA (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 9). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-361-8 .
  • "With that we had lost the initiative". On the role of the armed forces in the GDR 1989/90 (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 23). Ch. Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-809-7 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ also published as a licensed edition by the Weltbild publishing group (2003, ISBN 3-8289-0542-0 )
personal data
SURNAME Wenzke, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Baruth / Mark