 He regards Imperial Germany as more democratic and less "Bonapartist" than historians such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler have claimed, and that these democratic tendencies came to the fore during the Revolution of 1918–1919.In Stürmer's view, it was too much democracy rather than too little that led to the end of the "Kaiserreich" as the "restless "Reich"" collapsed because of its internal contradictions under the pressures of World War I.In the mid-1980s Stürmer sat on a committee - together with Thomas Nipperdey and Klaus Hildebrand - in charge of vetting the publications issued by the Research Office of the West German Ministry of Defense.