Ernst Leipprand

Ernst Leipprand (born May 6, 1905 in Ulm , † September 4, 1942 in Russia ) was a German historian and librarian .

Live and act

Ernst Leipprand was in Ulm on May 6, 1905 as the son of the military doctor and, from 1921, government medical advisor Gustav Leipprand (1872–1957) and Klara born. Bahr (born 1882). He had an older sister named Martha Elisabeth (born 1903)

After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Tübingen in the spring of 1923, he studied history, English and German at the Eberhard Karls University there, at the Maximilian University in Munich (1925) and at the Alma Mater Rudolphina in Vienna. In 1928 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen with an investigation into "Treitschke's position on England". Then, in October of this year, he began his library-scientific training as a trainee lawyer at the University Library of Tübingen, which he completed in 1930 at the Prussian State Library in Berlin with the specialist examination for the higher library service. Since the beginning of the thirties Leipprand, who initially published further studies on the history of ideas on Treitschke, made a name for himself in the professional world in discussions about catalog issues and the German general catalog.

In 1936 he was given a leave of absence as a library assistant at the Scientific Research Institute (AWI), a think tank founded by the German Labor Front (DAF) in Berlin in 1935, where he built the central library (library) from around 300,000 copies taken over from the union and employee libraries by July 1938. of the AWI. In August Leipprand returned to the Ungererstr. 56/3 lived in Tübingen with his family, returned to the university library of his adopted home as deputy director under Georg Leyh (1921–1947).

In November 1939, the 34-year-old Leipprand volunteered for the Wehrmacht. After a short stay in France as an occupying force, his unit, the 98th Infantry Division, was relocated to the central section of the Eastern Front (Army Group Center) in July 1941 and took part in the Battle of Kiev. In October 1941 she fought near Brjansk and Kursk where she took part in heavy fighting in 1942, then she was involved in Voronezh and Gschatzk and in the autumn in the front arc of Rzhev under the direction of Lieutenant General Friedrich Zickwolff in action. After his unit suffered heavy losses, a task force ("Kampfgruppe Karst") was formed on August 24, 1942 under the leadership of Lieutenant General Friedrich Karst to close the gap in the German main defense line in the Upolozy-Novgorod area, about 63 kilometers southeast of Lake Ilmen to defend this sector. Ernst Leipprand died there as a young officer on September 4, 1942. Until shortly before his assignment in Russia, he had been working on a habilitation thesis on acquiring the right to teach at a scientific university, which was published posthumously in 2008. He left his wife and a daughter in Tübingen.

Fonts

• Treitschke's position on England , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1928 (dissertation at the University of Tübingen).
• Efforts to cooperate in modern English librarianship . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 48 (1931), pp. 602–627.
• Treitschke in the English judgment , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931.
• Heinrich von Treitschke in the German intellectual life of the 19th century , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1935.
• The estate of Friedrich Theodor and Robert Vischer in the Tübingen University Library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 52 (1935), pp. 484–496.
• The 32nd German Librarians' Day in Dresden from 4th to 7th June 1936 . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 53 (1936), pp. 373–376.
• Questions of training for academic library service. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 53 (1936), pp. 490–502.
• The central library of the German Labor Front . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 55 (1938), pp. 88–90.
• Germans and Czechs in the age of the Thirty Years War. A nationality problem , Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-935176-87-3 (planned habilitation thesis).
• Letters to his friends Otto Thies and Martin Schnetter from the war years 1940 to 1942 , ed. by Eckart Leipprand, Trier 2009.
• Correspondence between our parents between home and the Russian front 1/42 - 9/42. The last 9 months, ed. by Eckart Leipprand, Trier 2009.

Literature / sources

• Alexandra Habermann et al. (Ed.): Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (Journal for Libraries and Bibliography, Special Issues, Volume 42), p. 189, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 .
• Eckart Leipprand (preface and biographical dates). In: Ernst Leipprand: Germans and Czechs in the age of the Thirty Years' War. A nationality problem, Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-935176-87-3 .
• Georg Leyh : Ernst Leipprand to the memory . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 60 (1944), pp. 132-139.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Virginia. No. 71. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (256th-291st), Part XI. The National Archives and Records, General Service Administration. Washington, 1976.