Career
Born in Turku, Katz was Jewish. He joined the Bar Kochba Jewish sports club in Berlin in 1924. In 1933 Katz immigrated to Palestine, where he was coach of the Palestinian track team for the 1948 Maccabi Games.
In December 1947 while filming at a British army camp during the Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, he was killed in an attack by Arab terrorists.