Gundula Gahlen's habilitation thesis on mentally ill officers 1890-1939 published by Campus (Open Access)
News from Jan 05, 2023
Gahlen, Gundula, Nerven, Krieg und militärische Führung. Psychisch erkrankte Offiziere in Deutschland (1890-1939), Frankfurt a.M. 2022 (= Krieg und Konflikt 17). (Open Access):
What demands did the military, medicine, politics, and society make on the psychological resilience of officers in Germany between 1890 and 1939? How did they deal with officers suffering from mental illness? How did the officers themselves perceive their illnesses? And what impact did these have on their self-image and their lives? Gundula Gahlen examines these questions from the German Empire through the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era.
The habilitation thesis was awarded the first prize of the 2021 Förderpreis für Militärgeschichte und Militärtechnikgeschichte. The open access publication was funded by the FU Publication Fund.