Joachim-Felix Leonhard

Joachim-Felix Leonhard (born September 10, 1946 in Jünkerath ) is a German historian and librarian and was (non-party) State Secretary for Science and Art in Hesse .

Joachim-Felix Leonhard at Peter Herde's 80th birthday in February 2013

education and profession

Joachim-Felix Leonhard attended schools in Gerolstein , Oberursel , Lorsch and Bensheim from 1953 to 1966 and passed the Abitur in 1966 in the ancient-language-humanistic branch of the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim. From 1966 to 1968 he was in the Bundeswehr. He then studied history, Latin, historical auxiliary sciences and philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg from 1968 to 1973 and graduated in 1973 with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1975 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main under Peter Herde .

He then joined the library service, passed the assessor examination in Munich in 1978 and then worked as a librarian and department head at the university libraries in Bamberg, Passau and Heidelberg. From 1984 to 1987 he was head of department and deputy head of the scientific librarianship group at the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn. From 1987 to 1991 he was director of the university library in Tübingen .

From 1991 to 2001 he worked as a board member and director of the German Broadcasting Archive Foundation in Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg. Between 1992 and 1993 he was also responsible for the trustee administration of the radio and television programming assets of the GDR on behalf of the five new states and Berlin (1994: founding of the radio archive "East" in Berlin-Adlershof, later Potsdam-Babelsberg).

In 1999 he ran for the election of the rector of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen , suffered a serious traffic accident during the final phase of the candidacy when he was run over by a car as a pedestrian in the Tübingen university district, after the operation he upheld the candidacy and was however defeated the Tübingen statistician Eberhard Schaich .

From 2001 to 2002 he was chairman of the working group of independent cultural institutes (AsKI for short). From 2001 to 2003 he was Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut (then: Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes) based in Munich, from 2003 to 2007 State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art in Wiesbaden and coordinated the merger and privatization of the Hessian state government on behalf of the Hessian state government University clinics in Giessen and Marburg. From 2007 to 2011 he was the founding president of the Von Behring Röntgen Foundation for the Promotion of University Medicine in Marburg. He is chairman of the advisory board of the German Music Information Center as well as of the German national committee for the UNESCO program " World Document Heritage " and was and is chairman of various national and international bodies.

Joachim-Felix Leonhard has been married since 1974 and has four children.

Honors

On October 26, 1992 Joachim-Felix Leonhard was awarded the honorary citizenship and the Golden Medal of Merit of the Italian port city of Ancona .

The Humboldt University in Berlin appointed him honorary professor on September 23, 1997 .

Leonhard has been an honorary member of the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice since 2002.

On October 4, 2004, he received the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .

2007 followed the award of the Pushkin Medal of the Russian Federation as well

the Friedrich Behn Medal of the city of Lorsch / Bergstrasse.

In 2016 he received the Hessian Order of Merit.

Publications (selection)

• Joachim-Felix Leonhard: The seaside city of Ancona in the late Middle Ages: Politics and trade (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome , Volume 55), Niemeyer, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-484-82055-1 (dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 1981, XII , 506 pages, 25 cm; Italian translation as Ancona nel basso medioevo. La politica estera e commerciale dalla prima crociata al secolo XV.-Ancona, Il lavoro Editioriale, 1992 ).
• Book burning. Censorship, prohibition, extermination under National Socialism in Heidelberg. With contributions by W. Engel, D. Harth, J .-. F. Leonhard, U. Wagner, W. Werner, R. Wolf-Hauschild, E. Wolgast and C. Zimmermann. - Heidelberg, Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1983. - 243 pages (Heidelberger Bibliotheksschriften 7).
• Karl Jaspers in his time in Heidelberg. With contributions by W. Engel, HF Fulda, H. Griesebach, J ..- F. Leonhard, H. Sarkowski and W. Schmitt - Heidelberg, Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, 1983 - 119 p. (Heidelberger Bibliotheksschriften 8).
• Program history of radio in the Weimar Republic - Munich, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), 1997. - 2 volumes, a total of 1298 pages
• Media studies. A manual for the development of media and forms of communication, ed. by JF. Leonhard, HW. Ludwig, D. Schwarze u. E. Strassner. - Berlin / New York, de Gruyter, 3 volumes 1999-2002. - a total of 2971 pages (handbooks for linguistics and communication science 15. 1-3).
• Helmut Knüppel, Manfred Osten, Uwe Rosenbaum, Julius H. Schoeps and Peter Steinbach (eds.), Paths and Traces. Links between education, culture, science, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard, Berlin, series of publications by the Wilhelm Fraenger Institute Potsdam www.fraenger.net, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 921 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim-Felix Leonhard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings by Joachim-Felix Leonhard in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Joachim-Felix Leonhard at the von Behring Röntgen Foundation