Eduard Wiegand (Germanist)

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Eduard Günter Wiegand (born August 24, 1893 in Detmold ; † April 21, 1979 there ) was a German librarian and archivist.

Life

Eduard G. Wiegand was the son of the accountant Eduard Wiegand and his wife Sophie, b. Lehbrink. His father was a member of the anti-Semitic "German Social Reform Association".

Wiegand attended high school in Detmold until 1912 and then began studying German literature, history and philosophy in Münster. In 1913/14 he spent two semesters in Munich. When the First World War broke out , Wiegand volunteered and fought on the fronts in France and Russia. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1916. After his discharge from the military in December 1918, he continued his studies in January of the following year. During his time in Münster in 1919 he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) , the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and other anti-Semitic and National Socialist organizations. He was a founding member of the Münster NSDAP in September 1922 and was a member of it until it was temporarily banned in 1923. After the re-establishment, he was again a member from March 10, 1925. From April 1926 to September 1929 Wiegand stayed in Detmold and promoted the NSDAP there. As early as 1930 he was district cultural warden in Münster, from 1932 district cultural warden for North Westphalia and in 1933 city councilor and cultural department head of Münster. He received his doctorate in 1933 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University with the dissertation "The world view of the mature Raabe " for a doctorate in philosophy. On June 3, 1933, Wiegand married Maria Winkel (1894–1972), who, like him, was a staunch National Socialist. There were no children from the marriage.

In the same year Wiegand returned to Detmold. Here he applied on June 12, 1933 as archivist and head of the Lippische Landesbibliothek . Thanks to his party work, he was already hired on July 1st and entrusted on July 3rd by Minister of State Riecke as successor to Hans Kiewning with the management of the Lippe State Archives and the State Library. He held these positions until the fall of the National Socialists. From July 1, 1933 to April 1, 1934 he was also director of the Lippisches Landesmuseum . Due to his position, Wiegand was a member of the Natural Science Association for the State of Lippe from 1933 to 1938 and a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia from 1934 to 1945 .

The necessity of the Aryan certificate made the state archive a place for family research from 1933 onwards . The steadily increasing research activities in the following years made it necessary to expand the archive in terms of both personnel and space. Wiegand built an archive in the state library with material on contemporary political history since the end of the First World War, making use of archives from private and police holdings. During his term of office, however, the acquisition and expansion of the Grabbe collection supervised by Alfred Bergmann also fell.

Wiegand was dismissed from service on April 27, 1945 by the military government, arrested on May 28, and interned in the Staumühle camp until October 14, 1947 . Subsequent complaints about reinstatement in the civil service and the payment of his pension payments failed. He earned his living as a tutor and also wrote a Latin grammar. He died on April 21, 1979 in Detmold.

literature

  • Robert Gahde: In the service of the National Socialist racial policy. The Lippe State Archives in Detmold 1933–1945 . In: Lippe messages from history and regional studies . 75th volume. Self-published by the Natural Science and Historical Association for the State of Lippe eV, 2006, ISSN  0342-0876 , p. 37-71 .
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 383 .
  • Harald Pilzer: The Lippische Landesbibliothek as National Socialist Weltanschauung library . In: National Socialism in Detmold (=  special publications of the natural and historical association for the state of Lippe ). tape 50 . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89528-208-1 , p. 503-527 ( online (PDF; 226 kB)).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the catalog for the libraries of Heidelberg University. Retrieved August 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Schmidt: National Socialist Cultural Policy in the Gau Westfalen-Nord: Regional structures and local milieus (1933–1945) . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , 2006, ISBN 3-506-72983-7 , p. 432 ( online at Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Joachim Eberhardt: A restless scientist in the service of Grabbe. Alfred Bergmann would have been 125 years old on July 23, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiegand, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiegand, Eduard Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1979
Place of death Detmold