Stefan Kestler

Stefan Kestler (* 1962 in Bamberg ) is a German historian and employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

He studied history and preservation of monuments at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . From 1987 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for modern and contemporary history, including national history, and received his doctorate in 1992 from Karl Möckl with a thesis on German intelligence in the First World War. In 1999 he submitted his habilitation thesis with reflections on the imperial German policy towards Russia .

Kestler is an employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. a. with extremism research . Until March 1, 2017, he was also a private lecturer at the chair for modern and contemporary history, including regional history, at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Publications

• The German foreign intelligence and the image of the Entente powers as reflected in contemporary propaganda publications during the First World War . Zugl. Diss. Univ. Frankfurt / M. 1992 Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-631-46906-3
• The invasion of the French and "French times" in Franconia 1796–1815: an overview taking into account the Bamberg Monastery. Local supplement to the official school gazette of the administrative district of Upper Franconia, No. 236, Bayreuth 1996
• with Kai Uwe Tapken : Bamberg and the revolution of 1848/49. Accompanying volume for the exhibition "Bamberg and the Revolution of 1848/49" from April 28 to June 12 in the Bamberg City Archives. Publications of the Bamberg City Archives, No. 7, Bamberg 1998
• with Kai Uwe Tapken: "Fresh, comrades, the black horse bridled ...". A historical-photographic foray through the Bamberg garrison history 1871–1939. Publications of the Bamberg City Archives, No. 8, Bamberg 1998
• with Götz Ulrich Penzel: Bamberg - place of refuge for displaced people, refugees and homeless people. Bamberg 1999
• Reflections on the imperial-German policy towards Russia: its significance for the development of the German-Russian antagonism between the founding of the empire and the outbreak of the First World War (1871–1914). Zugl. Habil.-Schr. Univ. Bamberg 1999. Kovač, Hamburg 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Kestler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications PD Dr. Stefan Kestler , University of Bamberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The German foreign intelligence and the image of the Entente powers as reflected in contemporary propaganda publications during the First World War , Peter Lang Publishing Group
2. ↑ Stefan Kestler: Anti-Semitism and the left-wing extremist spectrum in Germany after 1945. In: New Antisemitism? Enmity against Jews in political and public discourse. Publication of the lectures at the symposium of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on December 5, 2005. Federal Ministry of the Interior, PDF, pp. 75–107; online ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Stefan Kestler: The use of the Internet by left-wing extremists. In: Extremism Extremism and Terrorism in the Information Society Age. Publication of the lectures of the 5th symposium of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on December 4, 2006. Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , PDF, pp. 56–66; on-line
4. ↑ Personalia 1/2017 of the University of Bamberg (pdf) , accessed on October 28, 2017
5. ↑ Petra Mayer: "And the child slept in the suitcase ...": 70 years ago there were 20,000 refugees in Bamberg , inFranken.de , September 17, 2015
6. ^ Ulrich Lappenküper : Review of: S. Kestler: Considerations on the imperial German policy on Russia. Hamburg 2002 in: H-Soz-Kult , September 27, 2002