10 Facts About Bernd Wegner

Bernd Wegner was born on 1949 and is a German historian who specialises in military history and the history of Nazism.

Bernd Wegner earned his PhD in 1980 at the University of Hamburg, completing his dissertation under Klaus-Jurgen Muller at the History Department.

Bernd Wegner worked for over 15 years at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg, Germany.

Since 1997, Bernd Wegner is a professor of Modern History of Western Europe at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

Bernd Wegner's students included future military historians Agilolf Kesselring, Thorsten Loch, Rudolf J Schlaffer, Oliver von Wrochem and John Zimmermann.

Bernd Wegner is a widely published author and editor on the subjects of military history of Nazi Germany and the history of National Socialism.

From 2000 to 2005, Bernd Wegner was chairman of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War.

Bernd Wegner is co-editor of the book series War in History published by Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh in Germany.

Bernd Wegner is one of the authors of the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from the Military History Research Office contributing to several volumes of the series.

Several of Bernd Wegner's books have been published in English, including The Waffen-SS: Organization, Ideology and Function.