German Counterintelligence and Political Policing in the Occupied Territories, 1914-19

German Counterintelligence and Political Policing in the Occupied Territories, 1914-19

Veranstalter
Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V., Professur Militärgeschichte/Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt an der Universität Potsdam; Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Université catholique de Louvain
Veranstaltungsort
Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Haus 8, Raum 56
Ort
Potsdam
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.06.2019 - 20.06.2019
Deadline
10.06.2019
Von
Markus Pöhlmann

During World War One, the occupation and administration of foreign territories developed as a task hitherto unknown to European militaries in form, scope and duration. Due to the operational development between 1914 and 1918, occupation became a task for the German army in particular. In the occupied territories, soldiers encountered civilians of the enemy warring powers and vice versa. The zones of occupation became areas for rest and recreation for the forces and an economic reservoir to be exploited in a totalizing conflict. Military oppression, some (limited) forms of resistance and collaboration and covert operations by the Allied military and intelligence services turned the territories occupied by the German armies into a space where the enforcement of the laws of war was challenged regularly and in various and sometimes violent ways.
Recent scholarship has highlighted the emergence of a particular “Culture of the Occupied” (James E. Connolly), at least in Northern France. The workshop seizes this suggestion. It examines the interdependency of internal and external security in Belgium and France but moves the focus from the occupied towards the occupiers.

Programm

12.00
Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel (Potsdam)
Opening Remarks

12.15
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Debruyne (Louvain-la-Neuve) / Dr. habil. Markus Pöhlmann (Potsdam)
Introduction

12.30
Dr. Jonathan E. Gumz (Birmingham)
Reconsidering the Late 19th Century's Approach to Occupation

13.00
Dr. James E. Connolly (London)
The Culture of the Occupied and Surveillance: Some Reflections

13.30
Dr. habil. Markus Pöhlmann (Potsdam)
Counterintelligence and the German Army

14.00
Discussion

14.30
Coffee Break

15.00
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Debruyne (Louvain-la-Neuve)
A Good Job? Measuring the Efficiency of the German Secret Police by its Impact on the Intelligence Networks

15.30
Élise Rezsöhazy, MA (Louvain-la-Neuve)
The Officers of the Geheime Feldpolizei as a Social Group: Belgium and France, 1914-18

16.00
Dr. Florian Altenhöner (Berlin)
Vom Krieg zum Nachkrieg: Militärische Nachrichtendienste und ihr Blick nach Innen, 1918/19

16.30
Prof. Dr. Pieter Lagrou (Bruxelles)
Ramdohr Trial, June 1921: The Modus Operandi of the Geheime Feldpolizei under Question

17.00
Discussion

17.30
Book Presentation: Emmanuel Debruyne, « Femmes à Boches ». Occupation du corps féminin dans la France et la Belgique de la Grande Guerre (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2018).

18.30
End of the workshop

Attendance is free of charge but due to limited space participants are invited to register before 10 June 2019.

Kontakt

Universität Potsdam,
Historisches Institut,
Julius Becker,
Am Neuen Palais 10,
14469 Potsdam

julbecke@uni-potsdam.de

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-militaergeschichte/index.html
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