Hans Wilhelm Gatzke (1915–1987) was a German-born historian of German foreign policy since World War I and belonged to the young emigrants from Nazi Germany who became historians in the United States.
[5] He taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1947 to 1964, during which time he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956.
[6] He joined the department of history at Yale University in 1965 and remained there until his retirement in 1986.
Gatzke anonymously funded a prize, awarded biennially by the American Historical Association, in honor of Paul M. Birdsall (who was dean of students at Williams when Gatzke arrived there in the late 1930s) for the best work in the field of European military or strategic history since 1870.
[7] Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.