Franz W. Seidler
| Franz W. Seidler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 March 1933 Vítkov/Wigstadt, Czechoslovakia |
| Citizenship |
 German
|
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Modern history, particularly military history and social history |
| Institutions | Bundeswehr University of Munich (1973–1998) |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, NATO Defence College |
| Notable awards |
Federal Cross of Merit (1978) Dr. Walter-Eckhardt-Ehrengabe für Zeitgeschichtsforschung (a historical negationist association) |
Franz Wilhelm Seidler (b. 2 March 1933) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history. From 1973 to 1998, he was a professor of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Since retirement, he has published works of revisionist nature in extreme right-wing publishers, such as Pour le Mérite Verlag.
As a child, Seidler came as a refugee to West Germany, following the expulsion of Germans after World War II by the Czechoslovak government from his native Moravian Silesia.
Seidler studied history, German and English at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Cambridge and the Sorbonne University of Paris between 1951 and 1956. He was a civil servant (Studienreferendar and Studienassessor) of the state of Baden-Württemberg from 1956 to 1959. From 1959 to 1963 he was Deputy Director of the Bundeswehrfachschule in Cologne, and was subsequently employed by the Federal Ministry of Defence, as an Adviser in the Department of Administration and Law, from 1963 to 1968. He was Scientific Director of the Heeresoffiziersschule München from 1968 to 1972, and attended the NATO Defence College Senior Course in Rome in 1972.
From 1973 until his retirement in 1998, he was Professor of Modern History, particularly social and military history, at the Bundeswehr University Munich. He has been active as an expert adviser for the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag in the 1990s.
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