Albert Mundt

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Albert Mundt (born September 4, 1883 in Naumburg , † August 14, 1940 in Weimar ) was a German art historian , publisher , conservationist and state curator .

Life

He grew up as the son of the businessman Otto Mundt and his wife Elise, nee. Kersten, in Naumburg (Saale). After attending grammar school, he first studied philology and then art history at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig , Munich , Berlin , Bonn and Halle . In 1908 he received his doctorate from the art historian Adolph Goldschmidt, whom he “admired”, with a thesis on “The ore baptisms of Northern Germany from the middle of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century”.

He then went into business for himself as a publishing bookseller in Munich , Rosenthal 3. In 1915 he founded the Roland publishing house in Pasing , Odilostraße 3 . Its authors included u. a. the art scholars Ernst Diez , Max Herrmann , Richard Graul and Martin Sommerfeld , the expressionists Max Herrmann-Neiße , Kurt Heynicke , Georg Kaiser , Gottfried Kölwel , Klabund , Alfred Lemm , Rudolf Leonhard and Arthur Ernst Rutra , the Dadaists Hans Arp , Hugo Ball , Yvan Goll and Richard Huelsenbeck and authors such as Otto Flake , Anatole France , Claire Goll , Heinrich Eduard Jacob , Hermann Kasack , Paula Ludwig , Heinrich Mann and Arnold Zweig .

Since most of its authors were close to modern trends in art and literature and many were also Jews , the publisher got into trouble with the onset of National Socialism. After 1933 occurred foundation of the " Thuringian State Office of Historic Monuments and Cultural Heritage " by the May 5, 1933 Reich Governor appointed Fritz Sauckel Albert Mundt was appointed head of the new authority. Sauckel described his task as "creating a uniform tribal culture through the final elimination of cultural Bolshevism, a uniform building design representative for the entire area and finally also quantitative and qualitative increased nature and landscape protection".

As an art historian, Mundt was primarily concerned with monument protection , including the preservation of the Mühlburg , the research and renovation of the castle ruins on the Kyffhäuser in cooperation with the Kyffhäuserbund, and the preservation of war memorials .

He was involved in nature conservation a. a. for securing owl -Brutstätten, the prohibition of exchange bird trapping , closed seasons for collecting snails and ants puppets and the allocation of medicinal plants -Ernten one. The Ibengarten in the forestry district of Dermbach , the Bohlen near Saalfeld , the moors on the Saulkopf , Schneeberg and Großer Beerberg , the Röblitzholz near Camburg , the Arzberg , the Leutratal near Jena and the Alperstedter Ried were placed under nature protection with his participation.

In addition, he tried to bring together the country's numerous homeland and beautification associations in a " Thuringian Heimatbund ".

He published his suggestions, suggestions and recommendations in the regular magazine “ Das Thüringer Fähnlein ”, which appeared from 1932 to 1943 and thus succeeded the magazine “ Thüringen ” founded by his predecessor Fritz Koch and discontinued after his dismissal .

Works

  • The ore baptisms of Northern Germany from the middle of the XIII. up to the middle of the 14th century (= art studies, 3). Halle an der Saale 1908 (dissertation). [1]
  • The wars of freedom in pictures: In memory of d. centenary of the Battle of Nations near Leipzig , ed. from the Association for the History of Leipzig. Einhorn-Verlag Munich, 1913, 121 pp.
  • The work of the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection 1933-34 . Thür. Homeland Security, hatchet. zum Thüringer Fähnlein 4, 1935, pp. 689–695.

literature

  • Willi Oberkrome : "Deutsche Heimat": national conception and regional practice of nature conservation, landscape design and cultural policy in Westphalia-Lippe and Thuringia 1900 - 1960 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn 2004
  • Hans Klose : Obituary for Albert Mundt , in: Naturschutz 21, 1940, p. 144

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabian Link: Castles and Castle Research in National Socialism: Science and Weltanschauung 1933-1945, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2014, p. 327
  2. ↑ Hermann Kühn: the war memorial in the church of Urspringen
personal data
SURNAME Mundt, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, conservationist and state curator
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1940
Place of death Weimar