Thomas Müller (historian)

Thomas Müller (* 1958 ) is a German military historian and curator. He was the director of the weapons museum in Suhl .

Life

Müller, who grew up in Regensburg, joined the Armored Artillery Battalion 115 in Neunburg vorm Wald of the German Armed Forces after graduating from high school in 1978 , where he actively served until 1993. He was initially in the sergeant's career, changed in 1982 to the career of officers of the troop service and studied from 1982 to 1988 pedagogy (diploma) at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg. He was then used in various ways , including as a youth officer , until he graduated in 1991 with a degree in Modern and Middle Eastern and Bavarian State History (MA 1996) at the University of Regensburg and the University of Munich . He then worked as a research assistant at the Regensburg Chair for Modern History. In 1998 the doctoral scholarship holder at the University of Munich with the thesis suggested by Hans Schmidt and presented by Ludwig Hammermayer Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen (1862-1953). Portrait of a Bavarian officer for Dr. phil. ( magna cum laude ) doctorate. The abridged and revised version was included in 2002 in the series materials for Bavarian regional history of the commission for Bavarian regional history .

He then worked as a research assistant at the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. From 2000 to 2006 he was director of the weapons museum in Suhl. Among other things, he organized the highly acclaimed exhibition “Kalashnikov - Myth and Curse of a Weapon”. From 2006 to 2008, Müller then worked as a lecture hall director and teaching staff officer for military history at the Medical Academy of the Federal Armed Forces (SanAkBw) in Munich. Since 2008 he has been a research assistant (conservator) at the Bavarian Army Museum again, where he looks after the areas of paintings, toys, medals and large equipment.

Müller is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve. He is also head of the section of the Society for Security Policy in Ingolstadt.

Fonts (selection)

• Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen (1862–1953). Portrait of a Bavarian officer (= materials on Bavarian national history , Volume 16). Commission for Bavarian State History , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7696-0416-4 .
• with Jürgen Kraus : The German colonial and protection troops. From 1889 to 1918. History, uniforms and equipment (= catalogs of the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt , Volume 7). Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902526-24-3 .
• Chronicle of military vehicles - German tanks . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-941557-89-5 .
• The Bavarian Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Department 13 . Scherzer, Militaer-Verlag, Bayreuth 2013, ISBN 978-3-938845-45-5 .
• The German mountain troops . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-939284-37-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Expert advice on military history from Thomas Müller
• Thomas Müller at the Bavarian Army Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Sicken : Uta Lindgren - Karl Schnith - Jakob Seibert (eds.), Sine ira et studio . In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 65 (2002) 3, pp. 1115–1117, here: pp. 1116 f.
2. ↑ Contact person , Bavarian Army Museum, accessed on September 1, 2014.