Martin Broszat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martin Broszat

German historian

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1926

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1989

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Martin Broszat (14 August 1926 – 14 October 1989) was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of Nazi Germany.Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig (1944–1949) and at the University of Cologne (1949–1952).
He married Alice Welter in 1953 and had three children.
He served as a professor at the University of Cologne (1954–1955), at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich (1955–1989) and was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Konstanz (1969–1980).
He was head of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute of Contemporary History) between 1972 and 1989.Throughout his career, Broszat successfully hid the fact that he had joined (or applied to join) the Nazi party in 1944.
This only came out after his death, but did not seem to trouble his academic supporters.
The concealment raises serious questions which have yet to be fully resolved.