Erwin Ackerknecht

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Ackerknecht (born December 15, 1880 in Baiersbronn , † August 24, 1960 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German literary historian and librarian . He made a name for himself in Szczecin during the Weimar Republic as a pioneer of the adult education system and the popular library movement.

Life

Szczecin house where Erwin Ackerknecht lived between 1905 and 1907 (at that time Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 37 , today ulica Piłsudskiego 37).

Ackerknecht attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He completed his studies in philosophy, history and theology at the University of Tübingen in 1902 with a doctorate and in 1904 with the state examination. During his studies he became a member of AMV Stochdorphia Tübingen . In 1904 he was briefly a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Library in Posen .

In 1905 Ackerknecht came to the city ​​library in Stettin as a librarian . Over the next 40 years he was supposed to build up a library and public education system that was unique as an organism in Germany. From 1907 to 1945 he was head of the Szczecin City Library, which he took over with a stock of 20,000 volumes and expanded it into a scientific study library and a public library with a total of 200,000 volumes. In 1919 he was able to open the Stettiner Volkshochschule , whose director he became and where he worked as a lecturer. In 1923 he founded the Pomeranian State Hiking Library and in 1932 the State Library School in Stettin. He was one of the initiators of the founding (1921) of the Association of German People's Librarians, which is now part of the Information Library Association (BIB).

In 1934, the Stettin Adult Education Center and the State Library School were closed again. Ackerknecht lost his manuscripts in 1944 when his apartment was bombed out. He had to leave Szczecin on March 10, 1945.

After the Second World War , Ackerknecht initially worked in the Ludwigsburg Cultural Office and dealt with the reorganization of the library system on behalf of the state administration. In 1945 he founded both the city library and the Ludwigsburg adult education center. In the same year he was won over as director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach , which reopened on September 20, 1947 and which he headed until April 1954. In May 1948, he was also elected chairman of the German Schiller Society (until 1954).

In 1946 he was involved in the re-establishment of the South German Library School in Stuttgart and also worked there as a lecturer. For the handwritten catalogs of the public libraries, he developed a legible and easy-to-learn standard font that was also used in academic libraries.

He has received numerous honors, such as being appointed professor or honorary senator at the Technical University of Stuttgart . On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the construction of the Szczecin City Library, the Książnica Pomorska (Pomeranian Library), located there today, renamed a reading room in Sala imienia Erwina Ackerknechta in honor of the long-time head of the house .

family

Erwin Ackerknecht is the son of the high school professor u. a. for French Julius Ackerknecht (1856–1932) and his wife Sophie geb. Henes (1857–1932), a niece of the Tübingen professor of philosophy and history Albert Schwegler . His brother Eberhard Ackerknecht (1883–1968) was a professor of veterinary anatomy. Ackerknecht was with Clara, geb. Pfitzner, married, they had a daughter, Ingeborg, and a son Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht (1906–1988), who was a communist politician, doctor and later professor of medical history.

Works

He is the author of a wide variety of writings on education, lighting issues, literature and philosophy, or biographies about writers like Gottfried Keller.

His estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Berlin: Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag 1930, p. 5.
  • Max Fenger: Dr. Ackerknecht 70 years old on December 15th, 1950. In: Pomeranian Saat. Issue 5/1950. Reprint 1985, pp. 111-112.
  • Horst Ferber: Mission, passion, fate: for Erwin Ackerknecht's 100th birthday. In: Variations - about Erwin Ackerknecht / ed. from D. Red. Book and Library, Reutlingen. Bad Honnef: Bock and Herchen, 1981. Full text .
  • Alexandra Habermann and Peter Kittel: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians: The Scientific Librarians of the Federal Republic of Germany (1981 - 2002) and the German Democratic Republic (1948 - 1990), Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2004 (Journal of Libraries and Bibliography: Special Issues; 86) , P. 2f. ISBN 3-465-03343-4
  • Fritz Leopold: The Erwin Ackerknecht estate - a directory. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 1995. (Directories, reports, information Volume 17) ISBN 3-929146-38-X
  • Helene Messin and Klaus-Dietrich Hoffmann: Erwin Ackerknecht 1880–1960 . German Library Association, Berlin 1975. (Biobibliographien, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-87068-380-5
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 , p. 5.
  • Bernhard Zeller : Marbach Memorabilia. From the Schiller National Museum to the German Literature Archive, 1953-1973. German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1995. ISBN 3-929146-35-5 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Marta Kurzyńska, “110-lecie biblioteki publicznej w Szczecinie. Od Stadtbibliothek do Książnicy Pomorskiej 1905-2015 ” , on: Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich Okręg Zachodniopomorski , accessed on May 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ackerknecht, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German public librarian, director of the Schiller National Museum
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Baiersbronn
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1960
Place of death Ludwigsburg