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Michael Hans Kater (born July 4, 1937 in Zittau ) is a Canadian historian who has researched and published on various topics of National Socialism .

Life

Kater grew up in Zittau, Wersabe and Krefeld until he emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1953. He studied history, sociology and music at the University of Toronto ( BA 1959, MA 1961) and in Munich and Heidelberg. In 1966 at the University of Heidelberg with Werner Conze with a thesis on the SS Ahnenerbe he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . From 1967 he taught at York University in Toronto . In 2003 he was emirated.

He published a work on swing and jazz during National Socialism and, among other things, on musicians and composers in the “Third Reich” , medical professionals under National Socialism, the Ahnenerbe and the Hitler Youth, and a biography of the opera singer Lotte Lehmann .

Publications (selection)

  • The "Ahnenerbe": The research and teaching community in the SS, organizational history from 1935–1945 . Munich 1966, DNB 481413898 (Dissertation University of Heidelberg November 18, 1966, 594 pages); 4th edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 .
  • The Reich Vocational Contest and Students of Higher Learning in Nazi Germany. In: Central European History. Volume 7, 1974, pp. 225-261.
  • Student body and right-wing radicalism in Germany (1918–1933). A socio-historical study on the educational crisis in the Weimar Republic . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-455-09187-3 .
  • The Nazi Party. A social profile of members and leaders 1919–1945 . Harvard UP 1983.
  • Medical Schools and Medical Students: A Sketch. In: Fridolf Kudlien (Hrsg.): Doctors in National Socialism. Cologne 1985, pp. 82-104 and 261-269.
  • Medicine and Physicians in the Third Reich. An inventory. In: Historical magazine. Volume 244, 1987, pp. 299-352.
  • Doctors under Hitler . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, London 1989, ISBN 0-8078-1842-9 . German translation: Doctors as Hitler's helpers . Europa-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-203-79005-X .
  • Different drummers. Jazz in the culture of Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 1992. German translation: Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 .
  • The twisted muse. Musicians and their music in the Third Reich . Oxford University Press, New York 1997. German translation: Die abused Muse. Musician in the Third Reich . Europa-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-203-79004-1 .
  • Composers of the Nazi era: eight portraits . Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-509924-9 . German translation: Composers under National Socialism. Eight portraits . Parthas-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936324-12-3 . (He covers Werner Egk , Paul Hindemith , Kurt Weill , Karl Amadeus Hartmann , Carl Orff , Hans Pfitzner , Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss .)
  • Hitler Youth . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., London 2004, ISBN 0-674-01496-0 . German translation: Hitler Youth . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89678-252-5 .
  • Never sang for Hitler: the life and times of Lotte Lehmann, 1888–1976 . Cambridge University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-87392-5 .
  • Weimar. From enlightenment to the present. Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0300170566 (Ralf Roth: Review , Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 102 (2015) H. 4, S. 497-498).
  • Culture in Nazi Germany . Yale University Press, New Haven 2019, ISBN 978-0-300-21141-2 (Neil Gregor: Review , H-Soz-Kult, February 13, 2020).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ York University Archives and special collections: Inventory of the Michael H. Kater fonds. 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Kater, Michael H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kater, Michael Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau