Clemens Koettelwesch

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Black-and-white photograph: Clemens Köttelwesch has short white hair, wears rimless glasses and a horizontally striped bow tie with a white shirt and a mottled gray wool jacket; he looks a little mischievous
Clemens Koettelwesch (1982)

Clemens Köttelwesch (born February 3, 1915 in Tönisvorst ; died December 24, 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German linguist and literary scholar and academic librarian . For 20 years he was director of the City and University Library in Frankfurt . Together with Hanns W. Eppelsheimer he compiled the bibliography of German literary studies . From 1969 he was honorary professor for book studies at the University of Frankfurt. He was a recipient of the Goethe Plaque from the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Federal Cross of Merit .

Life

Clemens Köttelwesch grew up with twelve siblings in a rural home. As the only child in the family, after attending elementary school in Tönisvorst, he aimed for higher education and university attendance. After graduating from the humanistic high school in Emmerich , he first studied medieval history , later German , theater studies and newspaper studies in Breslau and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich . After being seriously wounded in the first years of the war, he was able to complete his studies in 1942 with a doctorate . He presented his dissertation under the title England and the colonial guilt lie in Munich. In the years from 1942 to 1944 he completed a two-year library clerkship with stations in Strasbourg , Berlin and Göttingen .

Clemens Köttelwesch was married three times. Three daughters came from the first marriage to Gertrud Köttelwesch: Irmgard, Ursula and the clinical psychologist Esther Rohde-Köttelwesch. The second marriage was to the chemist Helga Köttelwesch-Büthe, née de Riese, and in 1980 he married the librarian Sabine Köttelwesch , née Rügge.

Works

Location of the UB Marburg in the Hessian State Archive at Friedrichsplatz (1946–1967)

West German Library Marburg

From 1942 to 1944 Clemens Köttelwesch worked at the University Library of Marburg . On the occasion of a reception for his seventieth birthday by the Frankfurt City and University Library, Köttelwesch anecdotally described his early conservation work in Marburg as a tangible matter, in which he had to protect windowless storage rooms from moisture with “cardboard, hammer and nail”.

Initially, in 1944, his task was to relocate the holdings of the Marburg University Library and the approximately 1.8 million volumes of the Prussian State Library in Berlin to potash mines in Bad Hersfeld and Thuringia , which were up to 800 meters deep . From 1946 to 1948 he transferred them back to Marburg together with Martin Cremer on behalf of the American military government as special representative of the Hessian Ministry of Education . The books were partly encrusted with a layer of salt due to the storage locations. In 1948, this resulted in the West German Library with the locations of the old university library and the palace . Marburg was temporarily the largest library location in Germany. It was not until the early 1970s that the holdings of the West German Library moved back to what is now the State Library in Berlin. From 1948 to 1954 Köttelwesch was deputy director of the library.

In 1954 Köttelwesch was appointed to Frankfurt am Main by the head of the department for science, art and popular education, Karl vom Rath , where he initially worked as deputy director of the city and university library. On November 1, 1958 he was appointed as the successor to Hanns W. Eppelsheimer, which he held for 20 years until his retirement in 1978.

New library building in Frankfurt (Main)

City and University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (2018)

At the beginning of Köttelwesch's work as director of the city and university library, the stocks of the Frankfurt city library, the largest city book collection in Germany before the war, were in fourteen different locations, partly because of the war in old bunkers, where they were exposed to dirt and temperature fluctuations was.

The Lord Mayor of Frankfurt, Werner Bockelmann , then prioritized a new library building, which was realized in the 1960s with the financial participation of the State of Hesse and the Federal Government. The new building was to take into account a wide variety of needs: extensive special collections from the history of Frankfurt patronage, such as the Senckenberg , Rothschild and Manskopf libraries, were to be housed here alongside the modern scientific library for university operations.

Together with the university building director Ferdinand Kramer , he therefore planned not only a new library building, but also a new library concept based on the American model: instead of the previous collection of stacks, freely accessible book and magazine holdings, instead of a large general reading room, several specialist reading rooms and comprehensive reference libraries, special reading rooms for scientific use and multiple copies for much-used literature. The building should be easy to enter from the street in order to break down any inhibitions. In 1964 it was completed and could be occupied. Despite initial criticism, this concept was a model not only for the new libraries founded in the 1960s and 1970s, but also for established libraries.

The Frankfurt librarian school, founded in 1948, at which he taught and which he headed part-time, experienced the consistent expansion through the inclusion of the higher service in 1967 and the middle service in 1973. In contrast to other librarian training institutions, he attached great importance to it the practical relevance, which remained an essential feature of the training for him. After a trip to the USA in the early 1960s, Köttelwesch initiated, among other things, the building up of the textbook collections in the university libraries, initially with funds from the Volkswagen Foundation .

editorial activity

With its university, regional and national services, the city and university library took on an important key function in the national supply of literature for linguistics and literary studies and, as a source center for Köttelwesch, offered the prerequisites for compiling the bibliography of German linguistics and literary studies, which he as the successor published by Hanns W. Eppelsheimer from volume 2 from 1958 to 1981. In specialist circles, the bibliography is known as the Eppelsheimer-Köttelwesch .

In 1969, the Hessian Minister of Education, Ernst Schütte , appointed Köttelwesch an honorary professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in the Department of Book Studies. He held this position until his retirement in 1978.

After his retirement in 1978, Köttelwesch initially managed the support program for setting up book restoration workshops on behalf of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation . From 1980 he took over responsibility for publishing the critical edition of the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal on behalf of the Freie Deutsche Hochstift and funded by the German Research Foundation . By 1988, 16 of the 38-volume edition were available.

From 1966 to 1981 he published the journal for librarianship and bibliography , from 1968 as chief editor.

awards

In December 1978, after his retirement as director of the Frankfurt City and University Library in July of that year, Köttelwesch was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by City Councilor Hilmar Hoffmann in the Limpurg Hall of Frankfurt City Hall .

On March 8, 1985, Vera Rüdiger , the Hessian Minister for Science and Art, awarded him the Goethe Plaque of the Hessian Ministry of Science at a ceremony on the premises of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift.

memberships

From 1959 to 1961, Clemens Köttelwesch was chairman of the Association of German Librarians and chairman of the Conference of Directors of Scientific Libraries in the State of Hesse and a member of the Library Committee of the German Research Foundation .

From 1971 Köttelwesch was a member of the administrative committee of the Freie Deutsches Hochstift/Frankfurt Goethe Museum. In 1974 he was a co-founder of the Foundation for University and Research Documentation set up by Peter Lang in Frankfurt am Main. In 1981 he was elected to succeed Karl Konrad Pohlheim as chairman of the Hugo von Hofmannsthal Society.

In 1984, the library's 500th anniversary year, he founded the Society of Friends of the Frankfurt City and University Library together with Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and others. He was the first chairman of the society.

publications

monographs

  • England and the Colonial Guilt Lie . Dissertation, Munich 1942.
  • The scientific library system in the Federal Republic of Germany. Study books of the library school in Frankfurt am Main . City and University Library, Library School, Frankfurt am Main 1976.
    • Volume 1: General .
    • Volume 2: Library Typology .
  • The academic library system in the Federal Republic of Germany . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main.

Editorships

  • Ways to Schopenhauer: Arthur Pretty in honor. Celebration of the 80th birthday . Brockhaus Verlag, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 978-3-7653-0297-8 .
  • On the Cataloging of Medieval and Modern Manuscripts . Special issue of the journal for librarianship and bibliography , No. 1. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • Bibliographic handbook of German literary studies . With the collaboration of Hildegard Hüttermann, Cristina Maihofer and Irene Schneider. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main.

Scientific essays

  • On the new construction of the city and university library in Frankfurt am Main . In: Hans Striedl, Joachim Again (ed.): Book and World. Festschrift presented for Gustav Hofmann 's 65th birthday . Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1965, pp. 125–136.
  • Defensor humanitatis Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer on October 17, 1965 . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . Volume 12, 1965, pp. 279-283.
  • From the Frankfurt collective catalog to the Hessian central catalogue . In: Hermann Fuchs , Ewald Wagner (eds.): Current problems in library management . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1966, pp. 92-101.
  • Mass Utilization of German University Libraries . In: Libri. International Journal of Libraries and Information Services . Vol. 17, Nos. 1-4, January 1967, Munksgaard and Copenhagen 1967. doi:10.1515/libr.1967.17.1-4.0
  • On the supply of literature at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In: W. Haenisch and Clemens Köttelwesch (eds.): On structural change in German university libraries . Special issue of the Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . No. 14. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1973, pp. 159-179.
  • The Frankfurt Book Fair: a tradition going back centuries . In: Stock exchange journal for the German book trade . Volume 29, Issue 81, 1973, pp. 1642–1650.
  • Frankfurt's libraries as evidence of urban citizenship . In: Antiquarian interest group and mail-order book trade in the German Book Trade Association (Hrsg.): From the antiquarian bookshop. Magazine for antiquarians and book collectors . No. 103, 1976, pp. A 409-419.
  • Joint tasks of the scientific libraries in Hesse . In: Otfried Weber (ed.): Library and book in the past and present. Festgabe for Friedrich Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller on the occasion of his 65th birthday on December 30, 1975 . Verlag Documentation Saur , Munich 1976, ISBN 978-3-7940-3311-9 , pp. 236–257.
  • The city and university library of Frankfurt am Main. One focus: German literature and literary studies . In: The Literat . Volume 19, Issue 8, 1977, p. 177f.
  • The non-university tasks of the City and University Library Frankfurt am Main . In: Brita Eckert, Heinz Friesenhahn, Günther Pflug (eds.): Library, book, history. Kurt Köster on his 65th birthday . Series: Special Publications of the German Library No. 5. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 109-117.
  • Together with Franz Fischer: The unit classification in the mirror of the working group of university libraries . In: Rainer Alsheimer (ed.): Inventory development and library structure. Rolf Kluth on February 10, 1979 . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1979, pp. 50-65.
  • Publisher Wolfgang Metzner 's Lafontaine Collection . In: From the antiquarian bookshop . No. 18, 1981, pp. A 45-51.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Geh : Clemens Köttelwesch on his 60th birthday . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . Vol. 22. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1975, pp. 40-42.
  • Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (ed.): The university library: contributions and reports. The Director of the City and University Library in Frankfurt am Main, Professor Dr. Dedicated to Clemens Köttelwesch on the occasion of his 40th service anniversary . Journal of librarianship and bibliography, special issues. Vol. 27. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Dore Struckmeier: Librarian for the Advancement of Humanity: Clemens Köttelwesch Retires . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Zeitung , No. 145 of July 11, 1978, p. 27.
  • Gerhart Lohse : The library directors of the former Prussian universities and technical colleges, 1900-1985 . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne and Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-412-01888-7 , p. 66.
  • Klaus-Dieter Lehmann: Clemens Koettelwesch, 1915-1988 . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . Vol. 36. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 84–86.
  • Günter Gattermann : About predecessors and role models: Hanns W. Eppelsheimer, Erich H. Pietsch, Clemens Köttelwesch . In: Klaus G. Saur , Barbara Schneider-Kempf , Peter-Klaus Schuster (ed.): Science and culture in libraries, museums and archives. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann on his 65th birthday . de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-093248-5 , doi:10.1515/9783110932485 , pp. 267–278.

web links

itemizations

  1. ^ a b c d Dore Struckmeier: Librarian for the Advancement of Humanity. Clemens Köttelwesch is retiring . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . July 11, 1978 p. 27 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Frankfurt Faces . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . August 15, 1959 p. 42 .
  3. ↑ a b c Alfred Estermann: Inquisitive planner, hands-on designer. On the death of the librarian Clemens Köttelwesch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 29, 1988 p. 21 .
  4. ↑ Clemens Köttelwesch: England and the colonial guilt lie . o. O 1942 ( dnb.de [accessed 2 November 2021]).
  5. ↑ a b c d The farewell was a new beginning. Reception for Clemens Köttelwesch's 70th birthday . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . February 5, 1985 p. 29 .
  6. ↑ ab Klaus -Dieter Lehmann: Clemens Köttelwesch, 1915-1988 . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . tape 36 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 85 .
  7. ↑ OV: Contemporary history in Hesse: West German library makes Marburg the largest library location, 1952. In: agis-hessen.de. Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, accessed November 2, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Director of the University Library . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . November 5, 1958 p. 9 .
  9. ↑ UBA Ffm inventory Na 75 – Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved November 4, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Dirk Frank: In the middle of the city: the Bockenheim campus. In: uni-frankfurt.de. The President of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, February 5, 2016, accessed November 4, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Matthias Alexander: Campus Bockenheim: The laughing fourth . In: faz.net – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 27 July 2018, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed 4 November 2021]).
  12. ↑ a b c d e alw: Frankfurt place of work: On the death of Clemens Köttelwesch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . December 29, 1988 p. 25 .
  13. ↑ Clemens Köttelwesch: The textbook collections in German libraries . In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography . tape 14 . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 73-82 .
  14. ↑ a b bbr/h: Honor on Goethe's territory. Goethe Plaque for Professor Clemens Köttelwesch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . March 9, 1985 p. 41 .
  15. ↑ Günther Pflug: Köttelwesch, Clemens. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry online. Severin Corsten, Stephan Füssel, Günther Pflug, Friedrich Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller, 2017, accessed November 4, 2021 . doi:10.1163/978900 4337662_COM_110642
  16. ↑ a b Hofmannsthal Society with new chairman . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . 2 September 1981 p. 37 .
  17. ↑ Critical Edition. In: frei-deutsches-hochstift.de. Retrieved November 4, 2021 .
  18. ↑ The Medium Book. Clemens Köttelwesch turns seventy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 2, 1985 p. 27 .
  19. ↑ Small reports . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . December 20, 1978, p. 31 .
  20. ↑ Holger Knudsen: The statutes of the VDB - Only what changes remains . In: Engelbert Plassmann, Ludger Syré (eds.): Association of German Librarians 1900-2000. Festschrift. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-447-04247-5 , p. 178 .
  21. ↑ Hermann J. Abs and Christoph Pereis: Family ads: The Freie Deutsche Hochstift/Frankfurt Goethe Museum mourns Professor Dr. Clemens Koettelwesch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 1989 p. 23 .
  22. ↑ No dissertation for the cat. Documentation of started dissertations by a foundation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 3, 1974 p. 8 .
  23. ^ "Förderverein für Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Rhein-Main-Zeitung . November 8, 1984 p. 34 .
personal data
SURNAME Koettelwesch, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and literary scholar and academic librarian
BIRTH DATE February 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Toenisvorst
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1988
PLACE OF DEATH Frankfurt am Main