Willi A. Boelcke

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Willi Alfred Boelcke (born September 20, 1929 in Berlin-Lankwitz ) is a German economic and social historian , publicist, author and essayist.

Life

Boelcke was born the son of an entrepreneur in Berlin. While still at school, he was called in as a member of the Hitler Youth on the Kummersdorf-Gut shooting range .

From 1949 he studied history , German , economics and law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Free University of Berlin . After his diploma in 1953 , he received his doctorate in 1955 and completed training for the higher archival service. Until 1959 he was a consultant at the German Central Archives in Potsdam , until 1962 a scholarship from the German Research Foundation . In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim , where he had been professor of economic and social history since 1969.

His scientific work, which was reflected in over a hundred publications, mainly comprised four main research areas: the history of central Germany, the history of Baden-Württemberg, the economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century as well as propaganda and mass media.

He lives in Mahlow today .

Works

  • The feudal manor in Upper Lusatia with special consideration of the 17th and 18th centuries. A contribution to the economic, social and legal history of the East Elbe manor village. Phil. Diss. HU Berlin 1955.
  • Krupp and the Hohenzollern , Rütten u. Loening, Berlin 1956.
  • Farmer and landlord in Upper Lusatia , Domowina, Bautzen 1957.
  • The German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 in the mirror of administrative history , In: Archive messages 7 (1957), pp. 141–150.
  • War propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry . DVA, Stuttgart 1966, DNB 457297204 .
  • Do you want total war? The secret Goebbels conferences 1939–1943 , DVA, Stuttgart 1967.
  • Paths and research in agricultural history , DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • The archival foundations of German broadcasting history , 1968.
  • Constitutional change and economic structure , Holzner, Würzburg 1969.
  • Facsimile cross section through Signal (together with Hans Dollinger ), 1969.
  • Germany's Armaments in World War II - Hitler's Conferences with Albert Speer 1942–1945 , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1969, DNB 456445579 .
  • Krupp and the Hohenzollern in documents. Krupp correspondence with emperors, heads of cabinet and ministers 1850–1918 . Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1970. (Extended edition of the book from 1956).
  • Goebbels and the rally in the Berlin Sports Palace on February 18, 1943 . In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 19 (1970), pp. 234-255.
  • The Third Reich's arms deals with Brazil . In: Tradition 16 (1971), pp. 177-200, 280-287.
  • The "Seehaus" in Berlin-Wannsee . In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 23 (1974), pp. 231-269.
  • Changes in the German agricultural economy in the wake of the First World War . In: Francia 3 (1975), pp. 498-532.
  • The power of the radio. World politics and international broadcasting 1924–1976 . Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1977, ISBN 3-550-07365-8 .
  • This is how the sea came to us. The Prussian-German Navy overseas, 1822–1914 , Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin-West/Wien 1981.
  • The black market 1945–1948. On survival after the war , Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-07-508814-5 .
  • Economic history of Baden-Württemberg from the Romans to the present day , Theiss, Stuttgart 1987.
  • Economy and social situations , In: Otto Borst (Ed.): The Third Reich in Baden and Württemberg , Theiss, Stuttgart 1988, pp. 29–45.
  • Social history of Baden-Württemberg 1800–1989 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Millionaires in Württemberg. Origin - Rise - Traditions , DVA, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05110-0 (contains reprint: Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in Württemberg with Hohenzollern , 1914).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Willi A. Boelcke: Germany's Armaments in the Second World War - Hitler's Conferences with Albert Speer 1942–1945 , Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Boelcke, Willi A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boelcke, Willi Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin