Adolf Waas

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Adolf Waas (born April 9, 1890 in Lampertheim , † June 25, 1973 in Allmendingen (Württemberg) ) was a German librarian , historian and educator .

Career

During the First World War , Adolf Waas was a volunteer in the Grand Ducal Court Library in Darmstadt . He obtained his doctorate at the University of Giessen in 1917 with the short text on the medieval bailiwick Das Wesen der Vogtei in the Franconian and German empires , to which he added a second part in 1923, which contained the meaning . In 1919 he was involved in the development of the Mainz subject catalog by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer at the Mainz City Library . During this time he developed into a specialist in the public library system and took the position of a separate training course for public libraries . From 1924 to 1927 he was head of the Darmstadt City Library .

In 1927 he used the second German motorized mobile library in Saarland . The next year he became head of the Frankfurter Volksbücherei , but was removed from his office as a member of the SPD in 1933. In 1933, Waas applied for the new position as librarian in the Research Department Jewish Issues in the Historicum of the University Library in Munich , but was rejected because of his proximity to social democracy.

family

Before 1961, Waas married Charlotte von Freyberg from Allmendingen (* December 5, 1914).

Fonts

Adolf Waas is the author of over 20 publications.

about history
  • Vogtei and Bede in the German Empire / T. 1 1919. (Dissertation Gießen: The essence of the bailiwick in the Franconian and German empire. Merseburg, 1917) (= work on German legal and constitutional history . H. 1).
  • Vogtei and Bede in the German Empire / T. 2 1923. Vogtei and Bede as the basis of the German territorial state. Weidmann, Berlin 1923.
  • Rule and State in the German Early Middle Ages. (= Historical studies. H. 335). Ebering, Berlin 1938. - Reprint Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1965.
  • The big turning point in the German Peasants' War. Oldenbourg, Munich 1939.
  • The old German freedom. Oldenbourg, Munich 1939. - Reprinted in 1967.
  • The first German empire. Hanseatische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg 1943. (= Hanseaten-Bücherei. Feldpostausgabe ).
  • The heartland of the old German Empire on the Main and Rhine. A contribution to the development of the German royal power. In: German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages . Vol. 7, 1944, pp. 1-47. ( Online ).
  • History of the Crusades. In two volumes. Herder, Freiburg 1956. (New edition: Area-Verlag, Erftstadt 2005).
  • The peasants in the struggle for justice 1300–1525 . Callwey Munich, 1964. (2nd edition 1976, ISBN 3-7667-0069-3 ; another new edition under the title: Der Bauernkrieg. Panorama-Verlag, Wiesbaden o. J. [1998?], ISBN 3-926642-11- 4 ).
  • Man in the German Middle Ages. Böhlau, Graz and Cologne 1964. (New edition: VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-928127-28-4 ).
  • Heinrich V. Form and fate of the last Salic emperor. Callwey Munich 1967.
to librarianship
  • Adolf Waas, Walter Hofmann, Rudolf Angermann: Points to note about the popular library system. Callwey, Munich [around 1920].
  • Catalog / 1. Narrative literature. Roetherdruck, Darmstadt 1925.
  • Catalog / 2. Our time. Roetherdruck, Darmstadt 1925.
  • Catalog / 4. For young people. Roetherdruck, Darmstadt 1926.
  • Popular and scientific library. (Abstract). In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen Vol. 43, 1926, pp. 476–479. ( Online ).
  • How do you use a library? Bott, Berlin [around 1934].
  • On the older history of the city library in Frankfurt aM In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen Vol. 59, 1942, pp. 29–37.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.darmstadt.de/fileadmin/Bilder-Rubriken/Leben_in_Darmstadt/bildung/stadtbibliothek/pdf-daten/Tafel_3_1901-1933.pdf
  2. ^ Chronicle of the Frankfurt am Main city library . Seen on June 26, 2013.
  3. ↑ Sven Kuttner: Stolen books. Jewish provenances in the remainder of the library of the "Research Department Jewish Question" in the library of the Historicum of the Munich University Library. In: Library Service . 37th year, 2003, H. 8/9, p. 1060. ( Online ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), PDF; 112 kB). Seen on June 26, 2013.
  4. ^ Ernst Freiherr von Freyberg, History of the Barons of Freyberg. In: Community Allmendingen (ed.), Allmendingen: A home book for the millennium celebration . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1961, p. 75.
personal data
SURNAME What, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampertheim
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1973
Place of death Allmendingen (Württemberg)