Ernst Wermke

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Ernst Wermke (born July 13, 1893 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † November 22, 1987 in Heidelberg ) was a German librarian and bibliographer .

Life

Wermke took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 , most recently as an officer . He then studied history and classical philology at the University of Königsberg and doctorate to Dr. phil. In 1921 he became a volunteer and in 1922 a library assistant at the University Library of Marburg and at the State and University Library in Königsberg . In Königsberg he became librarian in 1926 and first library councilor in 1928.

In 1931 the main volume of his life's work Bibliography on the History of East and West Prussia was published . Decades of work brought his work to more than 47,000 titles. From 1932 Wermke was a member of the state examination board in Berlin.

By advocating National Socialism , Wermke was appointed director of the Wroclaw City Library in 1933. At the Library Day in 1934, he gave a lecture entitled “The German Libraries in the East” his views on the eastward expansion of the empire and described the Slavic peoples as primeval enemies of the Germans. He adopted the National Socialist rhetoric in order to protect library work from "foreign cultural influences". The academic libraries would have to "serve homeland and folk, blood and soil". In 1942 he became a member of the Reich Advisory Board for Libraries in Berlin. During the Second World War he took part in the campaign in the West and was sent to Paris to “protect” the French libraries . In 1945 he became a colonel in the reserve.

Released from Soviet captivity in 1950 , Wermke was appointed director of the library at the Technical University of Munich in 1952 . In 1977 he received the East Prussian Landsmannschaft culture award .

Works

  • Friedrich August Gotthold and his library . In: Königsberg contributions. Presentation for the 400th anniversary celebration of the State and University Library in Königsberg. Edited by Carl Diesch , Königsberg 1929, pp. 354–373
  • The German Libraries in the East . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 51. 1934. pp. 471–487
  • Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia up to 1929 . Königsberg 1933 (Aalen 1962)
  • Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia 1930-1938 . Aalen 1964
  • Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia 1939-1942 . Königsberg 1944 (almost completely lost)
  • Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia 1939-1970 . Bonn 1974
  • Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia 1971-1974 . Marburg ad Lahn 1978

literature

  • Bernhart Jähnig: Obituary for Ernst Wermke. Preußenland 26 (1988), pp. 45-47 and Altpreußische Biographie, Volume 4 (1995), p. 1529.
  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . License issue. Flechsig, Würzburg, 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notices from the Association of German Librarians. (PDF; 975 kB) 2/2008, ISSN  1617-1071 , p. 14.
  2. ↑ Short biography at the Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHPT) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihtp.cnrs.fr
personal data
SURNAME Wermke, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1987
Place of death Heidelberg