Gerhard Bauer

Born in 1963, Gerhard Bauer grew up in Weiden in Upper Pfalz. He studied history, art history and English language and literature in Erlangen and Edinburgh and earned a master’s degree with a paper about Jewish units of the British Army in the period 1914-1945. In his doctorate he examined the myth of Napoleon and his impact on totalitarian trends in Germany and France. A position at the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt enabled him to begin a career which led him via the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn to the German Armed Forces’ Museum of Military History in Dresden (MHM). There he is head of the uniform collection and is responsible for subjects from the Middle Ages to the end of the First World War. He has curated special exhibitions such as ‘The Bloody Romantic Period – 200 Years of Wars of Liberation’ (2013) and ‘14 – People – War’ about the First World War (2014). At present (2020) he is helping design a special exhibit at the MHM concerning the German wars of unification.