Karl-Heinz Frieser (born 1949 in
Pressath,
Bavaria
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) is a German
military historian and a retired
colonel
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In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge o ...
of the
German Army.
Life
Frieser joined the German Army in 1970 and started studying political science as well as history in 1978. In 1981 he acquired a doctorate degree with his thesis ''Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion und das Nationalkomitee "Freies Deutschland"'' (German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union and the
National Committee for a Free Germany). After that, he was one of the principal researchers in the
German Armed Forces Military History Research Office
The Military History Research Office (german: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, MGFA) is an office of the ''Bundeswehr'' located at Potsdam, Germany.
Following a reorganisation in 2013, MGFA was consolidated with the to become the Center ...
(Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt or MGFA). He published an account of the German war against France, denouncing the
Blitzkrieg myth, which was translated into several languages (''The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West''). He was also one of the principal researches for the German semi-official history project ''
Germany and the Second World War
''Germany and the Second World War'' (german: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that has taken academics from the military history centre of the German ...
''.
Publication list of the MGFA
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In 2009 he retired from the MGFA.
Works
*''Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion und das Nationalkomitee "Freies Deutschland"'', Würzburg, 1981
*''The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West'', Naval Institute Press; 1st edition, 2005,
*''Ardennen – Sedan. Militärhistorischer Führer durch eine europäische Schicksalslandschaft'', Frankfurt a.M./Bonn, 2000,
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References
External links
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Publication list of the MGFA
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1949 births
Living people
People from Neustadt an der Waldnaab (district)
German military historians
Historians of World War II
German Army personnel
German male non-fiction writers
20th-century German historians
21st-century German historians
Military personnel from Bavaria