Nikolaus Katzer

Nikolaus Katzer (born October 12, 1952 in Marburg ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1974 to 1978 he studied history and Russian studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1978 he passed the first state examination and in 1984 the second state examination for high school teaching. In 1983 he received his doctorate. He then worked on a research project on the four-power conferences of the 1950s and was a university assistant at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1987 to 1993 . In 1993 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation . Research stays and archive studies in London, Stanford , New York and Moscow followed. From 1994 to 1996 he taught history and Russian at the Elisabethengymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. In 1996 he completed his habilitation. Since then he has been professor for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and, since 2010, a member of the Joint Commission for Research into the Recent History of German-Russian Relations .

From May 2010 to September 2018 he was also director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow. His successor is Sandra Dahlke .

Fonts (selection)

• The White Movement in Russia. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-11698-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Katzer in the catalog of the German National Library