Heinz Kathe

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Heinz Kathe (* 1940 in Bad Bibra ; † 2012 in Neu-Ulm ) was a German historian .

Life

Heinz Kathe studied history and modern languages ​​at the University of Halle . In 1964 he received one of the Karl Marx scholarships , limited to 100 recipients , which were expressly to be awarded only to students who “actively fight Marxism-Leninism”. From 1965 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History there. In 1969, with his dissertation The Hohenzollern Legend : A Contribution to the Confrontation with Junk-bourgeois historiography, he was awarded the title of Dr. phil. and in 1980 he completed his habilitation with his dissertation B Spirit and Power in Absolute Prussia : On the History of the University of Halle from 1740 to 1806 . Both works represent the early "GDR-semi-official" view of Prussia's history. The historian Jürgen Mirow accuses Kathe especially in his book The Hohenzollern Legend Superficiality and "numerous inaccuracies and omissions". "Non-Marxist historians" were "constantly referred to in their entirety as 'reactionary'" by Kathe. Rüdiger vom Bruch also describes the work as "one-sided".

Kather's further research focused on biographical studies on the history of England and France in the 17th century and, from 1985, complete and partial descriptions of the history of Saxony-Anhalt as well as a corresponding historical atlas . In 1985 Kathe was appointed lecturer and in 1988 professor for modern history at the University of Halle. He taught there until 2005.

Memberships

  • Central German Cultural Council Foundation

Works

  • The Hohenzollern legend. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973, DNB 730211126 .
  • The “ Soldier King ”: Friedrich Wilhelm I, 1688–1740, King in Prussia - A biography . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976; 2nd, revised and improved edition: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978; 3rd edition: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981; Pahl-Rugenstein , Cologne 1981.
  • The " Sun King " Louis XIV, King of France, and his time 1638–1715. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 811015432 .
  • Oliver Cromwell . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, DNB 850218683 .
  • (together with Christina Böttcher): History of Saxony-Anhalt in map, picture and text. Kartoprodukt, Halle (Saale) 1991, ISBN 3-928765-00-0 .
  • (together with Hans-Joachim Bartmuß ): A short history of Saxony-Anhalt. From the beginning to the present. mdv, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-354-00785-0 .
  • History of Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 2: Reformation up to the founding of the Empire in 1871. Koehler & Amelang, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7338-0172-5 .
  • Prussia between Mars and the Muses. A cultural history from 1100 to 1920. Koehler & Amelang, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7338-0177-6 .
  • The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Mertens: Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . Munich 2006, p. 67 .
  2. ^ Law Gazette (GBl.) DDR 1953, p. 611; Law Gazette (GBl.) Of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1953, page 611 (GBl. DDR 1953, p. 611). Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer: Handbook of Prussian History, Volume 1: The 17th and 18th Century and Great Subjects in the History of Prussia . Berlin u. New Yorl 2009, p. 59, note 220 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Mirow: The old Prussia in German history since the establishment of the empire . Berlin 1981, p. 14th f .
  5. ^ Rüdiger vom Bruch: Scholarly Policy, Social Sciences and Academic Discourses in Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Stuttgart 2006, p. 65, note 88 .
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte Volume 20 (2013) (edited for the Central German Cultural Council by Harro Kieser and Gerlinde Schlenker ), accessed on July 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kathe, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Bibra
DATE OF DEATH 2012
Place of death New Ulm