Winfried Heinemann
I am both a German army officer (now retired) and a historian. Until 2018, I used to work for ZMSBw, the German Armed Forces' Center of Military History in Potsdam. I am also a professor of contemporary history in the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, as well as serving as an Honorary Researcher with Lancaster University, Centre for War and Diplomacy.
My own research covers the military resistance against Hitler, the early years of NATO, and the military history of the GDR within the framework of the Warsaw Pact.
I am also interested in historical sites and their uses for research, education, and memorialization.
Phone: +49 173 924 7110
My own research covers the military resistance against Hitler, the early years of NATO, and the military history of the GDR within the framework of the Warsaw Pact.
I am also interested in historical sites and their uses for research, education, and memorialization.
Phone: +49 173 924 7110
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Books by Winfried Heinemann
The ideas Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators held about the role of the army in a future state differed from those which underlay the founding of today's "Bundeswehr", which made it difficult to integrate them into post-war military tradition.
The book is based on archival research in the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, and both NATO Headquarters and SHAPE.
Authors from former Warsaw Pact countries as well as from the US and Switzerland present findings which allow a new, and more differentiated, view of the Warsaw Pact.
The Berlin Wall is usually seen from a Western perspective. What was the perspective from an East German point of view? What was the Wall, seen as a building? Who were the soldiers guarding the border? The book presents the Wall from a architectural, even aesthetic, as well as from a political and military point of view.
Papers by Winfried Heinemann
The ideas Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators held about the role of the army in a future state differed from those which underlay the founding of today's "Bundeswehr", which made it difficult to integrate them into post-war military tradition.
The book is based on archival research in the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, and both NATO Headquarters and SHAPE.
Authors from former Warsaw Pact countries as well as from the US and Switzerland present findings which allow a new, and more differentiated, view of the Warsaw Pact.
The Berlin Wall is usually seen from a Western perspective. What was the perspective from an East German point of view? What was the Wall, seen as a building? Who were the soldiers guarding the border? The book presents the Wall from a architectural, even aesthetic, as well as from a political and military point of view.