Nikolaus Katzer

Nikolaus Katzer (born 12 October 1952) is a German historian and the director of the German Historical Institute Moscow.

Early life and education[]

Nikolaus Katzer was born in Marburg on 12 October 1952.^[1] From 1974 to 1978 he studied history and Russian studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. In 1978 he completed the first state exams and in 1984 the second state exams for the . In 1983 his doctorate was awarded.

Career[]

Katzer worked on a research project to the quadripartite meetings with the 1950s and was from 1987 to 1993 assistant professor at the . In 1993 he was a fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. This was followed by research trips and archival research in London, Stanford, New York and Moscow. From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a teacher of history and Russian at Elizabeth High School in Frankfurt am Main. In 1996, he qualified as a professor. Since then, he has been professor of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries with special regard Central and Eastern Europe at the . Since May 2010 he has been director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow.^[1] Since 2010 he has been a member of the joint commission for the exploration of the recent history of German-Russian relations.

His research interests include:^[1]

• War and Social Order, Civil War and Social Change (1812-1825, 1914-1921)
• Social and cultural history of the Brežnev era
• Science, technology and modernity in Russia
• Body culture and sport in Soviet civilization
• Literature and history

Selected publications[]

• Die weisse Bewegung in Russland. Köln, Böhlau, 1999. ISBN 978-3-412-11698-9

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