Reinhold Thiel (historian)

Reinhold Thiel (* 1944 in Westerstede ) is a German historian.

Thiel comes from an old shipbuilding family. His great-grandfather worked at the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin , his father went to sea and later worked as a mechanical engineer at AG Weser . As a child, he built the ships his father sailed on as models.

After graduating from high school in Bremen-Walle in 1965 , he studied sports and history. In 1970 he became a teacher for these subjects.

As a shipping historian, Thiel has so far published five books about shipping companies, shipping lines and shipyards, including the history of North German Lloyd , the history of Bremen's Großwerften AG Weser and Bremer Vulkan , about the steamship company Neptun and about the shipping company Argo .

Books (selection)

• The Bremen air defense in World War II , Hauschild Verlag , Bremen, 1995, ISBN 3-929902-34-6
• with Werner Kloos : Bremer Lexikon. A key to Bremen , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 1997, ISBN 3-931785-47-5
• with Helmut Behling: Bremer Vulkan. End of an era , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 1997, ISBN 3-931785-68-8
• with Günther Diercks: J. Frerichs & Co. Frerichswerft - Flethe / Rönnebeck - Osterholz-Scharmbeck - Einswarden , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89757-092-4
• The history of North German Lloyd 1857-1970 , 5 volumes. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-388-8
• Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-489-2
• Weser-Flugzeugbau , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-539-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Thiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Books by Reinhold Thiel