Wolfgang Fleischer (historian)

Wolfgang Fleischer (* 1952 ) is a German military historian .

Life

Fleischer started working for the National People's Army at the Army Museum of the GDR in 1972 . He studied history in the GDR and graduated with the academic degree "Diplom-Historiker". After reunification, Fleischer was taken over by the German Armed Forces as a senior civil servant specializing in a specialty and currently holds the title of Scientific Senior Councilor and is a visiting lecturer for historical ordnance at the Dresden explosives school.

Fleischer was a member of the historical commission of the state capital Dresden on the air raids on Dresden between February 13 and 15, 1945 .

Fleischer came under public criticism after the publication of the book Saxony in 1945 by the NPD's own publishing house, German Voice, and an interview in the right-wing extremist German military magazine .

Works (selection)

• 2010
  • Saxony 1945. In collaboration with Roland Schmieder
• 2007
  • Troop registration plates of the German Army and Air Force
• 2006
  • The vehicles, weapons, ammunition and equipment of the Waffen SS
  • Tactical signs on the vehicles of the German Army 1939–1945
  • German melee weapons until 1945
• 2005
  • The German tank reconnaissance 1935–1945: technology, structure and operations of the motorized and armored reconnaissance troops
• 2004
  • Field fortifications of the German army: 1939–1945
  • The end of the war in Saxony in 1945: a documentation of the events in the last weeks of the war
  • Armored firepower: the German combat vehicle, tank destroyer and assault cannons, storm howitzers and mortars up to 1945
• 2003
  • The German Panzerjäger troops 1935–1945: Catalog of weapons, ammunition and vehicles
  • German dropping ammunition up to 1945: high-explosive bombs - incendiary bombs - special dropping ammunition - dropping container - detonator
• 2000
  • The vehicles, weapons, ammunition and equipment of the Waffen SS
• 1999
  • The Army Test Center Kummersdorf, vol. 1, mouse, tiger, panther, lynx, rockets and other weapons of the Wehrmacht during testing
  • The Heeresversuchsstelle Kummersdorf, Vol. 2, eyewitness reports, photographs, files
  • The motorized riflemen and tank grenadiers of the German army 1935–1945. In collaboration with Richard Eiermann
• 1998
  • Operation Barbarossa 1941
• 1997
  • The biggest tank battle of the Second World War - Operation Citadel
  • The last year of the Waffen-SS, May 1944 - May 1945. In collaboration with Richard Eiermann
  • The last year of the German Army, 1944–1945. In collaboration with Richard Eiermann
• 1996
  • The German assault guns 1935–1945
• 1995
  • German tanks 1935-1945; Technology, structure and operational principles of the German armored forces
• 1992
  • 24 cm heavy cannon: development and use 1916–1945

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Fleischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Scandal about “Saxony 1945”: Bundeswehr historian published in NPD-Verlag. In: Spiegel Online . July 15, 2010, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
• Oliver Reinhard: Change of publishing house on the sidelines. In: sz-online.de. July 16, 2010, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
• Michael Bartsch: Publication by NPD-Verlag: Bund speaks with a “German voice”. In: taz.de . July 16, 2010, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
• Bundeswehr: With diligence and a German voice. In: juedische-allgemeine.de. January 22, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .