{"id":4539,"date":"2025-02-26T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/?page_id=4539"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:05:52","slug":"ueber-mich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Adrian Matthes, I am 25 years old and I live and study in Erlangen. My interest in history began in my childhood with a fascination for knight castles, pirate ships and the ancient Romans. I only began to study the Second World War in my youth and initially I researched my family history. The memories of the war were always present in my grandparents and other older relatives, and occasionally the fate of family members who lost their lives in the war was discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was 13, I went to a flea market in my hometown and ended up talking to an older gentleman from a neighboring town. It turned out that he had served as a tank driver in the German army during World War II. This was a formative encounter for me, because he was able to answer many of my burning questions and took a lot of time to tell me about his youth. He took great pains to give me a realistic view of what happened, not omitting the immense suffering of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, a real friendship has developed between us. When I was about 17 years old, I started to write down the key points of his stories, which I now knew almost by heart. My intention was to be able to reproduce his reports authentically and in his own words at a later date. The notes, which soon grew into a small booklet, met with interest among friends. Eventually, we published a small book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand was overwhelming and within a few weeks we had received hundreds of orders from all over the world. Soon there was a second and third edition. With the income, we were finally able to finance a trip to Normandy together. There, he showed me the positions of his unit's former positions in the terrain and we also visited some military cemeteries where he showed me the final resting place of his comrades. We were given the opportunity to ride in \u201chis\u201d tank again and then gave presentations to an interested audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through this endeavor, I came into contact with other surviving war veterans from a wide range of military branches. Encouraged by the success of the first book, I started documenting more memories alongside my engineering studies, which I had begun in the meantime. In the last seven years, 13 books have been written, some of which have also been published in English, Spanish and Hungarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 befinde ich mich im Masterstudium und meiner Leidenschaft f\u00fcr das Recherchieren, Nachforschen und Schreiben bin ich treu geblieben. Es ist \u2013 80 Jahre nach Kriegsende \u2013 schwer geworden noch lebende Kriegsteilnehmer zu finden, die sich f\u00fcr ein Buchprojekt eigenen. Ich habe deshalb begonnen mich anderen Themen zu widmen und 2023 eine Chronik \u00fcber den Luftkrieg in meinem Heimatlandkreis ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Auch in Zukunft m\u00f6chte ich noch zu ausgew\u00e4hlten Themen publizieren. Sie kennen noch lebende Veteranen oder sind im Besitz von Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, unver\u00f6ffentlichten Manuskripten oder Fotoalben? Schreiben Sie mir! Ich freue mich \u00fcber jegliches Material, das f\u00fcr eine faire Geschichtsbetrachtung zur Verf\u00fcgung gestellt wird!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrian Matthes, Erlangen, 2025<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mein Name ist Adrian Matthes, ich bin 25 Jahre alt, wohne und studiere in Erlangen. Das Interesse f\u00fcr Geschichte begann in meiner Kindheit mit einer Faszination f\u00fcr Ritterburgen, Piratenschiffe und die alten R\u00f6mer. Mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begann ich mich erst in meiner Jugendzeit zu befassen und zun\u00e4chst recherchierte ich meine Familiengeschichte. Die Erinnerung an […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-item"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Adrian Matthes","author_link":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/author\/adrian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"Mein Name ist Adrian Matthes, ich bin 25 Jahre alt, wohne und studiere in Erlangen. Das Interesse f\u00fcr Geschichte begann in meiner Kindheit mit einer Faszination f\u00fcr Ritterburgen, Piratenschiffe und die alten R\u00f6mer. Mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begann ich mich erst in meiner Jugendzeit zu befassen und zun\u00e4chst recherchierte ich meine Familiengeschichte. Die Erinnerung an…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4539\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeitzeugen-versand.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}