Bernd Wegner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bernd Wegner

German historian of modern age

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Bernd Wegner (born 1949) is a German historian who specialised in military history and the history of Nazism.
He is Professor of Modern History at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany, the position he's held since 1997. Wegner is a contributor to the seminal work Germany and the Second World War from the Military History Research Office (MGFA).
His book on the Waffen-SS, published in English as The Waffen-SS: Organization, Ideology and Function by Blackwell Publishing, has been issued in Germany in nine editions (the latest being 2010) and is considered to be the standard work on the history of the Waffen-SS; concentrating on the pre-war years.