Sascha Möbius

Sascha Möbius (born July 12, 1968 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian .

From 1994 to 2001 he studied history and English in Hanover, Magdeburg and Göttingen. From 1997 to 1999 he received a research contract from the state of Saxony-Anhalt on the former remand prison of the Ministry for State Security at Moritzplatz in Magdeburg. In 2001 he completed his Magister Artium in Göttingen . From 2001 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the University of Potsdam . In 2003 he became a member of the editorial staff of the journal of the same name of the Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Age . He has been working as a freelance historian since 2004; he prepared u. a. Permanent exhibitions. He also became a lecturer at the Institute for History at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Helmut Schmidt University . In 2006 the doctorate followed ("Wars and unrest in the Lübeck chronistics and culture of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and the early modern times") with Hermann Wellenreuther at the historical seminar of. From 2006 to 2011 he was director of the Moritzplatz Magdeburg Memorial and from 2011 to 2015 of the Marienborn Memorial . His focus is on Prussian military history , urban culture of remembrance and the history of the GDR .

Fonts (selection)

• “In principle, a confession can be obtained from any accused”. The MfS remand prison in Magdeburg-Neustadt from 1957–1970 (= memorials and memorial work in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . H. 6). Published by the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg 1999. (2nd edition 2002)
• More afraid of the officer than of the enemy ?. A study of the history of mentality on Prussian tactics in the Seven Years War . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-4860-4 .
• with Mathias Tullner (Ed.): 1806. Jena, Auerstedt and the surrender of Magdeburg. Shame or chance ?. Protocol of the scientific conference from October 13th to 15th, 2006 in Magdeburg (= contributions to regional and state culture of Saxony-Anhalt . H. 46). Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-928466-99-8 .
• (Collaborator.): Jutta Nowosadtko , Matthias Rogg (Ed.): "Mars and the Muses". The interplay between the military, war and art in the early modern period (= rule and social systems in the early modern period . Vol. 5). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-9809-0 .
• with Annegret Stephan (Ed.): Erinnern. Research, education and the social discussion of political persecution in the Soviet Zone / GDR (= series of publications by the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation . Vol. 2). Metropol, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-41-1 .
• The memory of the imperial city. Unrest and wars in the Lübeck chronicle and culture of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and early modern times (= forms of remembrance . Vol. 47). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-898-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sascha Möbius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sascha Möbius at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
• Sascha Möbius at the Helmut Schmidt University