Winfried Heinemann
Winfried Heinemann (* 22. December 1956 in Dortmund ) is a retired German officer ( Colonel Ret. ) And military historian . He worked at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr and has been honorary professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg since 2014 .
Life
Winfried Heinemann graduated from high school in Dortmund in 1975 . From 1975 to 1976 he did a. a. as a reserve officer candidate for military service in the armed forces. He then studied history and English at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Department of War Studies at King's College London . In 1979 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve.
In 1983, at the age of 26, he returned to the German Armed Forces as a captain . a. used from 1984 to 1986 as a company commander in Rheine . From 1986 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau and Potsdam. In addition, he was editor of the magazine military history and scientific assistant to the head of office. In 1995 he was in Hans Mommsen in Bochum with a thesis on the early history of NATO to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1998 he worked as an operations journalist at the NATO headquarters Europe SHAPE in Mons, Belgium. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a consultant for military history, historical education and tradition in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Command Staff of the Armed Forces (Fü S).
From 2001 he was again a research associate at MGFA; from 2004 to 2010 he headed the division “Military History of the GDR in the Alliance”. In 2008 he took over the provisional management of the research department and in 2010 the management of the training, information, and specialist studies department. In 2012 he was a participant in the NATO Defense College (NDC) Senior Course 120 (SC 120) in Rome. From 2013 to 2016 he was Chief of Staff at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw). He has been retired since July 2018.
From 2004-2017 he was also Secretary General of the German Commission for Military History within the International Commission for Military History (CIHM). He is a member of the Bibliographic Committee . 2005–2009 he worked as press spokesman for the Association of Catholic Soldiers (GKS). In 2011 and again in 2017, he took on a visiting professorship at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto . In 2014 he became honorary professor for contemporary history at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2020 he has been an Honorary Researcher at the Center for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University .
Winfried Heinemann is the father of two sons.
Research priorities
His main research interests include a. the military resistance against National Socialism , the military history of NATO and the GDR within the framework of the Warsaw Pact and the tradition of the Bundeswehr.
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- The growing together of the alliance. The functioning of NATO in selected crises 1951–1956 (= origin and problems of the Atlantic Alliance . Volume 1). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56368-8 .
- The GDR and its military (= contributions to military history, military history compact . Volume 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70443-3 .
- Company "Valkyrie" . A military history of July 20, 1944 (= age of world wars, 21). de Gruyter / Oldenbourg, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-063731-1
Editorships
- With Norbert Wiggershaus : The international crisis year 1956. Poland, Hungary, Suez (= contributions to military history . Volume 48). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56369-6 .
- With Norbert Wiggershaus: National foreign and alliance policy of the NATO member states (= origin and problems of the Atlantic alliance . Volume 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56489-7 .
- With Torsten Diedrich , Christian F. Ostermann: The Warsaw Pact. From foundation to collapse, 1955 to 1991 (= military history of the GDR . Volume 16). Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-504-1 .
- With Eberhard Birk , Sven Lange : Tradition for the Bundeswehr - new aspects of an old debate . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937885-60-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Winfried Heinemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Winfried Heinemann in the German Digital Library
- Search for Winfried Heinemann in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Short biography and reviews of works by Winfried Heinemann at perlentaucher.de
- Winfried Heinemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Winfried Heinemann at Academia.edu (English)
- Winfried Heinemann at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
- Author portrait of Winfried Heinemann at Ch. Links Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Curriculum Vitae by Winfried Heinemann at Academia.edu .
- ↑ See dissertations with Hans Mommsen: Christian Jansen , Lutz Niethammer , Bernd Weisbrod (eds.): From the task of freedom. Political Responsibility and Civil Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Hans Mommsen on November 5, 1995 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002835-1 , p. 752.
- ↑ http://www.icmh-cihm.org/en/what-we-do/publications/journal
- ↑ Honorary Researchers of the Center of the University of Lancaster
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Heinemann, Winfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and military historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |