Walter Hole

Walter Loch (* 1923 ; † 2013 ) was a German historian and journalist .

Loch studied history and German. In 1951 he was at Max Braubach at the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn with a thesis on The kurtrierischen estates during the reign of Elector Johann Hugo von Orsbeck and Karl Joseph of Lorraine (1676-1715) for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1951 to 1959 he was editor and department head of the Frankfurter Neue Presse .

He then entered the service of the Bundeswehr as a civilian (first as an employee, then as a civil servant) . He was head of the division for political education in the Bundeswehr, troop information and military history in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn and later editor-in-chief of the military journals Truppenpraxis und Wehrausbildung .

He was u. a. Chief editor of the series of publications Innereführung , published by the BMVg.

Fonts (selection)

• with Victor von Gostomski: The death of Plötzensee. Memories, events, documents. 1942-1945 . Kyrios-Verlag, Meitingen u. a. 1969.
• (Arr.): When soldiers say peace. From the work of the Community of Catholic Soldiers . Edited on behalf of the Association of Catholic Soldiers by Helmut Fettweis and Helmut Korn, Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1974, ISBN 3-429-00365-2 . (3rd revised edition, Bachem, 1988)
• with Dieter Ose (Red.): The parliamentary fathers of the Bundeswehr. Debates and decisions in the Bundestag and Bundesrat (= series of publications Innereführung. 1985.1: Democratic profiles ). Federal Ministry of Defense / Command Staff of the Armed Forces , Bonn 1985.
• with Dirk Sommer: The Alliance. Opportunities for peace . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0312-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Loch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Braubach's doctoral students 1930–1973 . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne , vol. 202 (1999), pp. 95-104, here: p. 100.
2. ^ Authors' résumés . In: Fritz Peter Hoppe, Gerhard Schurig (Ed.): … It has to be true. Military and journalism in two centuries . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0309-3 , p. 175.
3. ↑ Katja Protte: "APO in the Bundeswehr?" Medial self-mediation of the armed forces through the Bundeswehr film show in the late 60s and early 70s . In: Frank Nägler (Ed.): The Bundeswehr 1955 to 2005. Flashbacks - Insights - Perspectives (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vol. 7). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57958-1 , p. 237.