Artur Dänhardt

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Artur Dänhardt (born January 3, 1905 in Mettmann ; † after 1986) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a cultural functionary in the GDR .

Life

Dänhardt was the son of a nursery owner from Dresden , who later became editor-in-chief of Möller's German gardener newspaper in Erfurt. After attending the Annenschule, Artur learned his trade as a publishing bookseller in Dresden, where his father had received the position of managing director of the specialist chamber for horticulture in 1918. He joined the SPD in 1928 , became a member of the German Peace Society and soon became an active anti-militarist.

His first arrest took place in Hamburg in November 1933 . In 1934 he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for "producing subversive leaflets". He served his imprisonment first in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and then in the Wolfenbüttel prison .

After the end of the Second World War, Artur Dänhardt participated in the reconstruction in Langebrück . There he founded u. a. the adult education center and, in the spring of 1946, the local branch of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany .

In 1949 Artur Dänhardt became the second state chairman of the art and literature union of the FDGB in Saxony. A year later he was appointed state secretary for the Kulturbund.

From 1955 to 1958 he was a lecturer in art history and aesthetics at the Volkshochschule in Dresden. In 1959 he became director of the Green Vault . With increasing age he became disabled .

Fonts (selection)

  • The kennel. A monument of the Dresden Baroque . Seemann, Leipzig 1964.
  • His heart beats on the left. To the Felixmüller exhibition in the Dresden Albertinum . In: Sächsische Zeitung of August 5, 1975
  • Rudolf Bergander. Painter and work. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978.

Honors

literature

  • Jutta Damme: Arthur Dänhardt . In: Dresdner Preview 1960, 3, pp. 3–4.
  • Hans Ebert: A sensitive art critic - a contentious humanist. Artur Dänhardt retrospectively on his 75th birthday. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 26, 1980, No. 5, pp. 234-235.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ebert: A sensitive art critic - contentious humanist. Artur Dänhardt retrospectively for his 75th birthday. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 26, 1980, No. 5, p. 234.
personal data
SURNAME Danhardt, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism and cultural functionary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettmann
DATE OF DEATH after 1986