Walter Nuhn

Walter Nuhn (* 1928 in Norderney ) is a German author . He is known as the author of works on German colonial history.

Walter Nuhn attended secondary school in Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven . Due to his service in the Wehrmacht and his subsequent two-year Soviet captivity , he was only able to take his Abitur in 1950. From 1951 to 1955 he studied Protestant theology and English in Hamburg , Kiel and Göttingen .

From 1957 he worked as an interpreter and translator for the American armed forces and the aviation industry, from 1963 as a specialist translator in the language service for the German armed forces and since 1967 at various command authorities of the German Navy in Wilhelmshaven .

After his father had been a naval officer, Walter Nuhn's interest in naval and colonial history was aroused early on. He is a member of the traditional association of former protection and overseas troops and lives in Wilhelmshaven.

Works

Storm over southwest . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1989 (the Herero uprising of 1904 in what was then German South West Africa , today Namibia )
Cameroon under the imperial eagle. History of the acquisition and development of the former German protected area Cameroon - A contribution to German colonial history , Wilhelm Herbst-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1995 ISBN 3-923925-65-4
Flames over German East Africa . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1998 (The Maji Maji Uprising)
Enemy everywhere: guerrilla warfare in the southwest . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 2000 (on the Nama uprising of 1904 in German South West Africa )
Colonial Policy and Navy. The role of the Imperial Navy in establishing and securing the German colonial empire, 1884-1914 , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2002 ISBN 3-7637-6241-8
At a losing position - German South West Africa in the First World War . Self-published, Wilhelmshaven 2008