Franz W. Seidler
Franz W. Seidler | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 March 1933 |
| Nationality | Silesian German |
| Citizenship |  German |
| Awards | Federal Cross of Merit (1978) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, NATO Defence College |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Bundeswehr University of Munich (1973-1998) |
Franz Wilhelm Seidler (2 March 1933 in Vítkov/Wigstadt, Moravian Silesia) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history. He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University of Munich.
His research focuses on issues concerning German military personell, war crimes and guerrilla warfare, as well as postwar disarmament.
Career
As a child, Seidler came as a refugee to West Germany, following the expulsion of Germans after World War II by the Czechoslovak government from his native Moravian Silesia.
Seidler studied History, German and English at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Cambridge and the Sorbonne University of Paris between 1951 and 1956. He was a civil servant (Studienreferendar and Studienassessor) of the state of Baden-Württemberg from 1956 to 1959. From 1959 to 1963 he was Deputy Director of the Bundeswehrfachschule in Cologne, and was subsequently employed by the Federal Ministry of Defence, as an Adviser in the Department of Administration and Law, from 1963 to 1968. He was Scientific Director of the Heeresoffiziersschule München from 1968 to 1972, and attended the NATO Defence College Senior Course in Rome in 1972.[1]
From 1973 until his retirement in 1998, he was Professor of Modern History, particularly social and military history, at the Bundeswehr University of Munich. He has been active as an expert adviser for the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag in the 1990s[2].
Honours
- Federal Cross of Merit, 1978
- Sudetendeutscher Kulturpreis, 2004
- Dr. Walter-Eckhardt-Ehrengabe für Zeitgeschichtsforschung
Publications
- Kriegsverbrechen in Europa und im Nahen Osten im 20. Jahrhundert, with Alfred-Maurice de Zayas. Mittler & Sohn, 2002. ISBN 3813207021 and ISBN 978-3813207026.
- Die Militärgerichtsbarkeit der deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, München: Herbig-Verlag 1991. TB 1999: ISBN 978-3926584601.
- Verbrechen an der Wehrmacht, Selent: Pour le Mérite Verlag, 1998 und 2000, 2 Bände, ISBN 3932381033 und ISBN 393238105X
- Die Wehrmacht im Partisanenkrieg - Militärische und völkerrechtliche Darlegungen zur Kriegsführung im Osten, Selent: Pour le Mérite Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-932381-04-1
- Prostitution, Homosexualität, Selbstverstümmelung. Probleme der deutschen Sanitätsführung 1939 - 1945. Vowinckel-Verlag, Neckargemünd 1977, ISBN 3-87879-122-4.
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- German historians
- Military historians
- Members of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Victims of political repression in Communist states
- University of Paris alumni
- University of Munich alumni
- NATO Defence College alumni
- 1933 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge (Unknown College)