Saxon Esperanto Institute
The Saxon Esperanto Institute was a cultural institution founded in 1908 and funded by the Kingdom of Saxony to improve Esperanto teaching, take language tests, publish textbooks, set up a specialist library on Esperanto and planned languages and create Esperanto translations for Saxon industrial companies.
After the First World War it was re-established as the Esperanto Institute for the German Reich and existed until it was forced to be dissolved in 1936. The holdings of the former Royal Saxon Esperanto Library were saved from destruction by being handed over to the Prussian State Library in Berlin .
After the Second World War, it was re-established in Munich in 1948 under the name of the German Esperanto Institute (DEI). Since the former Esperanto library for the German Reich was now in the Soviet sector of Berlin and from 1949 in the GDR, a new construction took place in the west. The German Esperanto Library is now located in Aalen .
literature
- Ulrich Lins : On the history of the Esperanto Institute in Saxony 1908–1936. In: Martin Haase (Ed.): Contributions to the history of the German Esperanto movement. Berlin: German Esperanto Institute 2000, pp. 20–29.
- 100 years of the German Esperanto Institute 1908–2008. Augsburg 2008, 84 pages (collection of articles with contributions by Detlev Blanke , Werner Bormann, Rudolf Fischer , Ulrich Görtz, Martin Haase , Ulrich Lins , Utho Maier, Karl Heinz Schaeffer and Gerald Tucker).