Matthias Rogg

Matthias Rogg is a colonel in the German Armed Forces, who currently teaches in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning and Operations (DMSPO) at the U.S. Army War College. He received a PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Freiburg i.Br., a Habilitation in Newer and Contemporary History from the University of Potsdam and has taught since 2013 as Professor for History at the German Armed Forces University in Hamburg. Among assignments in the Armored Forces, the Ministry of Defence (Policy and Planning Staff) and the Military History Research Institute, he was Founding Director of the Military History of the German Armed Forces (Dresden) and Founding Director and Co-chair of the German Institute for Defence of Strategic Studies, the Think Tank of the Bundeswehr (Hamburg). His newest book The Army of the Unity? German Armed Forces between Peaceful Revolution and German Unification is in preparation for printing and will be published in 2025. He is a former International Fellow and graduate of the AY24 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.