Curt Fleischhack

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Curt Fleischhack (born December 7, 1892 in Leipzig-Reudnitz , † October 6, 1972 in Leipzig ) was a German librarian and from 1955 to 1961 as the main director of the German library .

Life

Curt Fleischhack was the son of a tram driver and a farm worker. After completing eighth grade at the Leipzig Citizens' School, he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig and then worked as a bookshop assistant in Wiesbaden and Leipzig. In 1915 he became a library assistant in the German library. In the autumn of 1915 he took part in the First World War as a medic . After the war, Fleischhack returned to the Deutsche Bücherei in 1918 and attended the Leipzig library school. In 1921 he successfully passed the exam for the senior service at academic libraries. In 1929 he was promoted to senior library inspector.

Curt and Marianne Fleischhack's grave at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

The Catholic Fleischhack was a member of the Mazdaznan movement from 1924 to 1935 and a member of the SPD for about six months in 1923 . In 1934/1935 he joined the National Socialist Cultural Community and the National Socialist People's Welfare Association . From 1934 he was a member of the SA reserve, which he had to leave in 1939. In 1937, he unsuccessfully applied for membership in the NSDAP .

Fleischhack was mainly occupied with developing the national bibliography in the German library. Among other things, he had a decisive influence on the separation of the national bibliography into series A (booksellers' publications) and row B (publications outside the book trade).

At the end of 1940 the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda commissioned the Deutsche Bücherei to create a bibliography of Jewish literature in German (1901–1940). Fleischhack had made a rough calculation of the size of the bibliography with an estimated 105,000 fonts. The library councilor Johannes Ruppert edited the bibliography from August 1941.

In 1945 Fleischhack was released due to his SA membership. However, he was allowed to continue to work as a freelancer, as he was in charge of drawing up the list of literature to be sorted out. Having since joined the CDU, he survived the denazification process in April 1947. As a result, he became Heinrich Uhlendahl's closest employee in a responsible position . In 1951 Fleischhack became director of the bibliographical department and in 1954 he signed a declaration of commitment as IM of the East German MfS .

In September 1955, the State Secretariat for Higher Education appointed the 63-year-old Fleischhack, who is also a recognized personality in West German libraries, to be the main director and head of the German library to succeed Heinrich Uhlendahl, who died at the end of 1954. In 1957 he published the "Outline of the Bibliography", which subsequently became the standard work for the training of young librarians. In 1958, Fleischhack was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit . On the day he left library service, at the end of January 1961, he was awarded the title of professor.

In 1922 Fleischhack married his colleague Marianne Holzer, with whom he had a daughter and a son. His wife was, among other things, active as a writer and also wrote a well-known biography about Albert Schweitzer's wife Helene.

Fonts

  • Paths to Knowledge. Book, book trade, libraries, literature index. Triltsch, Würzburg 1940.
  • Bibliographical vademecum for booksellers, book lovers and students. Bachmair, Söcking 1949.
  • Guide to the bibliography. Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1951.

literature

  • Gerhard Pomaßl: Curt Fleischhack 75 years. In: Central Journal for Libraries. 81, No. 12, 1967, pp. 734-738.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Rau: "National Library in the Divided Land". The German Library 1945–1990 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3199-0 , pp. 260-261.
  2. ^ A b Christian Rau: "National Library in the Divided Land". The German Library 1945–1990 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3199-0 , p. 122.
  3. ↑ Sören Flachowsky: "Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , pp. 1117–1118.
  4. ^ Christian Rau: National library in the divided country . In: Dialogue with Libraries 2015/2 . P. 38
  5. ^ Christian Rau: "National Library in the Divided Land". The German Library 1945–1990 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3199-0 , p. 251.
  6. ^ New Germany , January 29, 1958, p. 2

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personal data
SURNAME Meat mince, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig-Reudnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1972
Place of death Leipzig