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Dr. Peter
Schenk was born in 1953 at Hildesheim, Germany.
He works as a dentist in Berlin
and joined the Gröner Group
in 1973. His first work was a book on Operation Sealion Invasion
of England 1940 followed by a description on the German Navy in the
Aegean in WW II, Kampf um die Ägäis. He also
contributed to Erich Gröne's Die deutschen
Kriegsschiffe 1815 – 1945 and currently presides over the
Gröner Group. He is preparing new books with other members on
German netlaying and landing vessels. See Kampf
um die Ägäis
Karsten Klein was
born in 1973 at Duesseldorf and grew up at Stuttgart. After high school he
studied law at the University
of Passau and worked in Nuremberg as
an attorney for some years. He now lives in Stuttgart
again and works for the Ministry
of Finance of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
When he got in contact with Peter Schenk, he joined the Gröner Group in 2006. His focus lies on the history of amphibious
warfare and the technique of landing ships and craft with an emphasis
on the World War II period. Currently he and
Dr. Schenk are preparing a book about the development of German landing
craft.
Dr Axel
Niestlé, born 1961 at Bielefeld
, Germany, lives
with his family at Dabendorf near Berlin. Married to his wife, Katrin,
they have one daughter and four sons. Dr. Niestlé joined
the Gröner Group in 1988, he has written numerous books, articles
and papers on German U-boat operations and U-boat technology. With
German U-boat losses becoming one of his favorite research
topics, his work led to more than a hundred loss
reassessments over the last twenty-five years. He also works frequently
as a free-lance consultant for TV-documentations on U-boat warfare and
U-boat wreck dive expeditions. See Reluctant
Allies: German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II; German
U-Boat Losses during World War II.
Dieter Thomaier
was born in 1940 at Heidelberg
, Germany.
He studied mechanical engineering and worked in the aerospace industry
for nearly four decades, finishing as head of a ramjet test
department. A professional background like this is very helpful in
analyzing technical developments in the maritime field. Retired now, he
has lived in Potsdam
since 2001. Also in 2001
he joined the Gröner Group and has contributed to some of the
group’s projects. He has lectured on armor and underwater
protection of German capital ships and is preparing a book on this
subject.
Berndt
Wenzel was born in
1945 at Pressel-Eilenburg
, Germany .
He lives as a journalist in Berlin
and joined the Gröner circle
in 1964. He studied civil
enginering in Berlin.
His first work
was on technical details for the great publication, Die
deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815 – 1945 by Erich Gröner. He
is a co-author of Die
Schiffe und Boote der deutschen Seeflieger and Tanker
und Versorger der deutschen Flotte. Later
followed a work on the Hamburg class
destroyers of the Federal German Navy and
Strassenfahrzeuge deutscher Eisenbahnen with details about special
transports
of German warships in WW II. From 1980 he was editor-in-chief of the
German
navy magazine Marine
Illustrierte. At
the moment he is preparing new books with another author on the topic
of German
warships from 1945 to today. See Tanker
und Versorger der deutschen Flotte 1900-1980
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