Gerd R. Ueberschär (born 18 August 1943) is a German military historian who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II.
Ueberschär obtained his doctorate in history from the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he subsequently worked as an assistant professor.
From 1996 to 2008, he worked as a historian and archivist at the German Federal Military Archive [de] in Freiburg.
[1] Ueberschär is an author and editor of numerous books on the history of National Socialism in Germany and the Second World War.
He concluded that conspirators' plans for the post-Hitler society were incompatible with today's understanding of democracy; the plotters were hoping for a "genuine national community": "They propagated the constitutional plans were very far from an open democratic society".