Dem Frieden verpflichtet

As an officer, military theorist and peace researcher, Wolf Graf von Baudissin seems to have been a living contradiction. He began his military career in the German Reichswehr and, as a soldier in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, fought in the Battle of France during World War II, before being captured by the British in Africa in 1941. During the development of the German armed forces, he became one of the most important pioneers of the concept of ‘Innere Führung’, which is based on the guiding principle of the citizen in uniform and stipulates how soldiers should be led and treat each other. From 1971 to 1984 he worked as the founding director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.
In this book, the historian Dagmar Bussiek portrays Baudissin’s incredible life story by drawing on a wide range of sources.