Willi Alfred Boelcke was a German Economic and Social Historian, journalist, prolific author, essayist and retired university professor.
[1] His doctorate, from the Humboldt University, and received in return for work on the "feudal overlordship in Upper Lusatia with a particular focus on economic, social and legal history in the manorial villages of East Elbia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries", followed just two years later.
During the later 1950s he was able to access and make a thorough study of the detailed records of the daily meetings that Joseph Goebbels conducted with his top ministry officials during the twelve Hitler years.
After Boelcke left the Archives Service and Potsdam in 1959 and crossed to the west this research would provide material for a number of books.
His degree topic this time was "Constitutional changes and economic structures" covering the medieval and modern periods, taking examples from the traditionally aristocratically ruled central German lands covering approximately the modern territories identified during much of the twentieth century as Thuringia and Saxony.