Carl Schellenberg

Carl Schellenberg (born October 10, 1898 in Hamburg ; † February 9, 1968 ) was a German art historian and folklorist .

Life

Schellenberg was a son of the manufacturer Richard Schellenberg. He attended the high school in front of the Holstentor in Hamburg, which he left in November 1916 with the secondary school diploma. He was then called up as a soldier for military service and most recently served with the 3rd Machine Gun Company of the 76th Infantry Regiment. After his return from the field, he studied art history at the universities of Hamburg , Munich and Freiburg i. Br. On. In January 1923 he received his doctorate from Professor Erwin Panofsky (Hamburg) with a thesis on the illustration principles of the Dürer apocalypse. phil. PhD .

After a temporary job as a volunteer at the monument protection office in Hamburg, he got a job as an assistant at the Thaulow Museum in Kiel in July 1923 . In 1926 he returned to Hamburg and became a research assistant at the Museum of Hamburg History under Otto Lauffer . There he later became the custodian. The focus of his work was folklore and art history.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was first called up as a private to the air defense command, but released again in May 1940. When he returned to the museum, he was given the task of inspecting the stolen Jewish silver. From the summer of 1940 he was commissioner and deputy to the Reich Commissioner for non-ferrous metals in the bell campaign as part of the metal donation of the German people .

From January 1942 to September 1945 Schellenberg was acting director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle for the director who was drafted for military service. From December 1945 he was busy with the return of the Jewish silver confiscated during the war and identified the owners and heirs. In addition, he devoted himself to the reconstruction of the Bergedorfer Museum and the reorganization of Prince Bismarck's collections in Friedrichsruh .

On August 1, 1953, Schellenberg was custodian of the Helms Museum in Hamburg-Harburg and headed the urban history and folklore department. He retired on October 31, 1963.

At the time, Carl Schellenberg was considered one of the best experts on Hamburg's history and wrote numerous art-historical and folkloric publications.

Works

• Old Hamburg. Leipzig 1936
• Landesbildstelle Hansa u. Museum f. hamb. History (ed.): The Low German man in the Hamburg portrait of the past . C. Boysen, Hamburg, DNB  362588414 (no year, [1935]).

literature

• W. Wegewitz: Dr. Carl Schellenberg . In: Harburg Yearbook. Volume 12, 1965/67 (1969), pp. 182f.