Sven Felix Kellerhoff

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Sven Felix Kellerhoff
Born 1971
Occupation Author
Journalist
Language German
Nationality German
Genre Non-fiction
History of the Nazi era

Sven Felix Kellerhoff (born 1971) is a German historian, journalist and author who specialises in the history of the Nazi era.

Education and career

Kellerhoff was born in 1971 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was educated at the Free University of Berlin and the Berlin School of Journalism (de). Since 2003, Kellerhoff has been the Chief Editor of Contemporary and Cultural History at Die Welt. Prior to Die Welt, he worked at the Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung.[1]

Non-fiction author

Kellerhoff has published more than twenty book titles during his career. Among his works is a recent history of the Nazi Party, published in 2017 as Die NSDAP: eine Partei und ihre Mitglieder ("The NSDAP: A Party and its Members"). Among other sources, Kellerhoff utilised the research conducted by American sociologist Theodore Abel. While in Germany on a research project in 1934, Abel launched a competition in cooperation with the Nazi Party to collect life stories of members who had joined the party prior to 1933. He collected 683 biographical sketches, which formed the basis of his report How Hitler Came to Power.[2]

Publications

In German

In English

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Further reading

References

  1. Profile, Die Welt
  2. Rudolf Walther (17 November 2017): "Geschichte der NSDAP: Eine Mark für Hitler"
  3. Wolfgang Benz, ZFG H. 11, 2015, S. 1022ff
  4. Robert Probst, Sammelrezension: Einem Bestseller auf der Spur. SZ, 12. Oktober 2015

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