Nikolaus Katzer

Born in 1952, Nikolaus Katzer studied history and Russian studies. He received his doctorate in 1983 and completed his habilitation in 1996. From 1996 onward, he was Professor of the History of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. In 2010, he became director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow. His research focused on modern Russian history, especially the political, cultural, and social history of the Russian Civil War and the Brezhnev era.