Lothar Machtan

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Lothar Machtan (born October 4, 1949 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German historian and author. Until 2015 he taught and researched as a professor of modern history at the University of Bremen .

biography

Lothar Machtan (2018)

Machtan studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg . In 1978 he received his doctorate from the University of Bremen. phil. and completed his habilitation ten years later in Bremen . There he was appointed associate professor in 1995. In addition to Bremen, he researches (s) and teaches (s) in Konstanz, Berlin, Kassel, Halle and at Claremont McKenna College in California . His research focus shifted from the history of social and social policy to the cultural history of politics.

As a historian, Machtan mainly deals with German history in the 19th and 20th centuries, dealing primarily with cultural aspects of politics. He has published several non-fiction books in general publishers. His thesis of Adolf Hitler's homosexuality was discussed intensively in a broad public . His book on Hitler has been translated into eleven languages. The biographical work of 2013 Prince Max von Baden. The last chancellor of the emperor received attention. Machtan also writes u. a. for Spiegel, Die Zeit and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He is also active as an exhibition organizer (Bismarck Museum Bad Kissingen) and recently as a film and screenwriter.

Works

  • Strikes in the early German Empire . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1983.
  • Bismarck's death and Germany's tears. Report of a tragedy . Goldmann, Munich 1998.
  • Bismarck . German places of remembrance. Edited by Etienne Francois and Hagen Schulze, Vol. II, Munich 2001, pp. 86-104.
  • Hitler's secret. The double life of a dictator . Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8286-0145-1 (expanded paperback edition by S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15927-7 .).
  • What Hitler's homosexuality means. Notes on a taboo story . Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, Volume 51, 2003, pp. 334–351.
  • The emperor's son with Hitler . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2006.
  • The abdication. How Germany's crowned heads fell out of history . Propylaea, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07308-7 .
  • Germany's crowned rulers on the eve of the First World War. An inspection report on the functionality of the German monarchy model . Journal of History, Vol. 58, 2010, pp. 222–241.
  • Prince Max of Baden. The last chancellor of the emperor . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42407-0 .
  • Autobiography as a historical political weapon. The memoirs of the last Imperial Chancellor Max von Baden . Quarterly issues for contemporary history, issue 4/2013, pp. 481–512.
  • The abdication. How Germany's crowned heads fell out of history . New edition DTV, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-28085-3 .
  • The end-time chancellor. Prince Max von Baden and the fall of the empire . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3660-6 .
  • Imperial fall. From failure in the heart of power . wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3760-3 .
  • New era without certification. Or: The Scheidemann legend , in: Martin Sabrow (ed.): Revered - hated - forgotten , Göttingen 2019, pp. 25–62.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wbg - Knowledge connects us: Lothar Machtan ›Kaisersturz. Failure in the Heart of Power 1918 ‹. July 9, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Power on, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen