Reinhard Stumpf (historian)

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Reinhard Stumpf (born December 10, 1942 in Eberbach ) is a German military historian and ministerial official .

Life

Reinhard Stumpf studied history , German and geography at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1963 to 1968 and graduated with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. Since 1966 he has been a student assistant at Reinhart Koselleck for the lexicon of basic historical concepts that is in the making , and from 1968 to 1978 he was the editorial assistant of this lexicon, which his teachers Werner Conze and Reinhart Koselleck edited together with Otto Brunner , at the University of Heidelberg. From 1978 to 1980 he expanded the history program as a lecturer at Kohlhammer Verlag in Stuttgart , and in 1979 he did his doctorate in Heidelberg at Conze. From 1980 to 1993 he worked at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg (most recently as Senior Scientific Councilor) on Rommel and the Africa campaign in 1941/43, helped set up the military museum in El Alamein and edited the magazine Military History with two colleagues . From 1993 to 2007 he was government director in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn .

Stumpf is co-author of volume 6 of the series The German Reich and the Second World War , published by the Military History Research Office. Among other things, he worked on the German military leadership elite in the Third Reich and World War II and in the early Federal Republic, in Austria and the GDR. The Heidelberg dissertation was published under the title The Wehrmacht Elite . His selection of the writings of Carl von Clausewitz and Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke in the library of German classics contrasts the war theorist and the chief of staff; The conceptual historical commentary on Clausewitz's war book places his thinking apart from all updates in the theoretical discussion of his time.

Fonts

  • The Air Force as the third army. The Luftwaffe ground combat units and the problem of the special armies 1933 to 1945 , in: Ulrich Engelhardt , Volker Sellin , Horst Stuke (eds.): Social movement and political constitution. Contributions to the history of the modern world. [Festschrift Werner Conze] , Stuttgart: Ernst Klett 1976, pp. 857-894.
  • Collaboration with Werner Conze, Michael Geyer : Militarismus , in: Brunner, Conze, Koselleck (Ed.): Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe , Vol. 4, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1978, pp. 1-47.
  • The Wehrmacht elite. Structure of rank and origin of the German generals and admirals 1933–1945 (= Defense Scientific Research, Dept. Military History Studies , Vol. 29), Boppard am Rhein: Harald Boldt 1982.
  • Problems of logistics in the Africa campaign 1941–1943 , in: Lectures on Military History , Vol. 7, Herford, Bonn: Mittler & Sohn 1986, pp. 211–239.
  • The war in the Mediterranean region of 1942/43. The operations in North Africa and in the central Mediterranean , in: Das Deutsche Reich und der Second World War , ed. vom MGFA, Vol. 6, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1990, pp. 567–757, paperback edition: Die Welt im Krieg , Vol. 2, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, pp. 659–874, English edition: Germany and the Second World War , vol. 6, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2001, p. 629-840.
  • Erwin Rommel and the Resistance , in: Military History , New Series 1 (1991), Issue 3, pp. 45–50; also in: uprising of conscience. Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945 , ed. by Thomas Vogel / MGFA, Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: ESMittler & Sohn 2000, pp. 433–446.
  • (Ed.) War theory and war history. Carl von Clausewitz. Helmuth von Moltke (= Library of History and Politics , Vol. 23 = Library of German Classics , Vol. 87), Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 1993. The Clausewitz text of this edition without the comment:
  • (Ed.) Carl von Clausewitz: Vom Kriege (= Insel Taschenbuch , Bd. 3087), Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig: Insel 2005.
  • General der Infanterie Rudolf Schmundt , in: Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): Hitler's military elite , Vol. 2, Darmstadt: WBG / Primus 1998, pp. 226-235, 2nd, one-volume edition 2011, pp. 497-506 .
  • The reuse of generals and the formation of new military elites in Germany and Austria after 1945 , first in 1982, revised in: Hans-Jürgen Bremm, Hans-Hubertus Mack, Martin Rink / MGFA (Ed.): Decided for Peace. 50 Years of the Bundeswehr 1955 to 2005 , Freiburg i.Br., Berlin: Rombach 2005, pp. 73–96.
  • The theater of war North Africa 1941–1943 in its strategic and political significance , in: Erwin Rommel. History and Myth , ed. from the House of History Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe: G. Braun 2009, pp. 80-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basic historical concepts. Historical lexicon on the political-social language in Germany , ed. by Otto Brunner, Werner Conze and Reinhart Koselleck, 8 vols. in 9 parts Stuttgart: Ernst Klett / Klett-Cotta 1972-1997, paperback edition 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Stump, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberbach