Roman Töppel
Roman Töppel (born January 31, 1976 in Bautzen ) is a German historian and author . Töppel became internationally known for his work on the Battle of the Kursk Arch in 1943.
Life
Roman Töppel was born in 1976 in Bautzen, the son of an organ builder and a bespoke tailor. After finishing school in Neustadt / Saxony and Frankfurt am Main and completing military service, Töppel studied modern history, medieval history and political science at the TU Dresden from 1996 to 2001 . In 2007 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Saxony in the Napoleonic period. At the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich Töppel was 2012-2015 part of the historian team that the critical commented edition of Hitler's " Mein Kampf developed". In 2016, this edition was awarded the science prize of the donors' association “Society needs science”. His book on the Battle of Kursk, published in 2017, was translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish in 2018. Current research focuses on Nazi ideology and Nazi propaganda , the history of the Waffen SS , the history of operations from 1939 to 1945 and the historiography of World War II.
Töppel is married and lives and works as a freelance historian in Munich.
Works
- Kursk 1943: The greatest battle of the Second World War , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2nd edition, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78867-2 .
- The Saxons and Napoleon: A mood picture 1806–1813 (Diss., University of Dresden), Böhlau-Verlag, Weimar 2008; Audio book for the blind, German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig 2012; 2nd edition, Böhlau-Verlag, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21204-9 .
- Christian Hartmann , Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger, Roman Töppel (eds.): Hitler . Mein Kampf : A critical edition , 2 volumes, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich & Berlin 2016, 10th edition 2020, ISBN 978-3-9814052-3-1 .
Web links
- Roman Töppel on Perlentaucher.de
- Roman Töppel on Portal Military History
- 5 Misconceptions About the Greatest Battle of World War II , Focus Online, November 17, 2017
- Rolf-Dieter Müller: Mendacious battles . Kursk 1943 FAZ-Online, November 6, 2017
- The tank encounter battle Prokhorovka 1943 , video of the lecture (29:20 min), German Tank Museum Munster , September 3, 2017
- Guderian and the German tank weapon - legend and reality , video of the lecture (34:30 min), German Tank Museum Munster , September 16, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ DasPanzermuseum: Interview with Dr. Roman Töppel. May 3, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Donors' Association. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Science award for "Mein Kampf" edition . ( ifz-muenchen.de [accessed on November 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Töppel, Roman, Dr. phil. | Military history portal. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potter, novel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Potter, novel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |