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Seidler studied history, German and English at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Cambridge and the Sorbonne University of Paris between 1951 and 1956.
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He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University Munich. His research focuses on issues concerning German military personnel, war crimes and guerrilla warfare, as well as postwar disarmament. As a child, Seidler came as a refugee to West Germany, following the expulsion of Germans after World World War II by the Czechoslovak government from his native Moravian Silesia.
He was a civil servant (Studienreferendar and Studienassessor) of the state of Baden-Württemberg from 1956 to 1959.
From 1959 to 1963 he was Deputy Director of the Bundeswehrfachschule in Cologne, and was subsequently employed by the Federal Ministry of Defence, as an Adviser in the Department of Administration and Law, from 1963 to 1968. He was Scientific Director of the Heeresoffiziersschule München from 1968 to 1972, and attended the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defence College Senior Course in Rome in 1972.
From 1973 until his retirement in 1998, he was Professor of Modern History, particularly social and military history, at the Bundeswehr University Munich. He has been active as an expert adviser for the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) faction in the Bundestag in the 1990s.
A reviewer in the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, writing on Seidler"s book Phantom der Berge, stated that "Since his retirement he publishes one book after the other, with which he has distanced himself from serious historical research." His biography of Fritz Todt has been described as offering too positive a picture of Todt and as reflecting a neo-conservative perspective.
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