Quarterly books for troop command and military studies
| Quarterly books for troop command and military studies
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| Area of Expertise | military |
| language | German |
| publishing company | ES Mittler & Sohn ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1904 |
| attitude | 1914 |
| editor | Great General Staff |
| ZDB | 531882-8 |
The quarterly journals for troop leadership and army studies were a military trade journal that was published by the Great General Staff of the German Reich between 1904 and 1914 .
Between 1823 and 1867 the military weekly was published as the official magazine of the military leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1903 the Chief of the General Staff Alfred von Schlieffen took up the idea of an official military magazine again. The intention that he pursued with such a publication was formulated in the advance notice as follows:
- “It will contain essays on tactical and war history as well as news about interesting troop exercises and reports about foreign armies. In the case of the latter, emphasis is placed on reproducing what is essential and instructive for organization, training and leadership, in the form of coherent articles. These will endeavor to keep the reader informed about all the endeavors and phenomena in the military field observed within the foreign armies, as well as to help clarify important operational questions. The essays on war history should make the experiences of recent war history usable for the troop leadership. "
The management of the magazine was subordinate to the War History Department 1 of the Great General Staff, which dealt with recent military history. Initially, the employees of the General Staff, the General Staffs and the teachers of the War Academy were planned. Count von Schlieffen drew her attention to the fact that the magazine should have an “instructive and stimulating effect ” on the officer corps. Polemics should be avoided. In addition, reviews and literary reviews were not provided because this would give the magazine the undesirable role of a judge. All contributions were provided with the name of the author; only collaborative works appeared anonymously.
In January 1904 the first edition was published by ES Mittler & Sohn . As early as the fifth issue, articles by officers outside the General Staff were also published. Even essays by reserve officers soon appeared . The magazine found good sales and soon became a renowned discussion platform. In their contributions, contemporary conflicts, e.g. B. the Boer War (1899–1902) or the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05) analyzed. As announced, essays on foreign armed forces and other military science topics were also published.
In the late summer of 1914, the publication was stopped because the General Staff was now busy with the First World War . After the war, the Versailles Peace Treaty forbade the existence of a Great General Staff, so that there was no longer any institution that could publish a magazine. It was not until 1936 that a new magazine appeared under the direction of the General Staff of the Army of the Wehrmacht , the Military Science Rundschau , which saw itself in the tradition of quarterly magazines for troop leadership and army studies .
literature
- About military literature in the Prussian-German army from Scharnhorst to the World War , in: Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau 4/1938, pp. 463–482
Web links
- Record of the journal. In: Catalog of the German National Library .