Friedrich Bräuninger (librarian)

Friedrich Bräuninger (full name Friedrich Carl Albert Bräuninger , born June 18, 1901 in Berlin , † April 28, 1945 near Potsdam ) was a German librarian and classical philologist .

Bräuninger studied Classical Philology , German and Oriental Studies at the University of Berlin , where he passed the state examination for higher education on March 1, 1926 and was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From April 1, 1926, he worked for two years as an assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich. He then returned to the University of Berlin and worked for a few months as an assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies (May 1 to September 30, 28).

After these years, Bräuninger decided to pursue a career in library. On October 1, 1928, he joined the university library in Berlin as a volunteer ; After a year he moved to the State Library in Berlin , where he passed the librarianship examination on September 23, 1930, and worked again at the university library on October 8, 1930. On May 1, 1934, he was appointed regular librarian, on October 1, 1936, he was appointed librarian and department head of the German Army Library , and on April 20, 1939, he was appointed library councilor. From 1942 to 1945 he was director of the army library.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Bräuninger was killed in the fighting near Potsdam in April 1945.

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the writings of Hermes Trismegistos Graefenhainichen 1926 (dissertation)
• Χαρμόσυνα . In: Hermes . 63: 484-485 (1928)
• Persephone. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIX, 1, Stuttgart 1937, Sp. 944-972.
• Handbook of Library Science. Register: overview of the contents of the three volumes, list of illustrations, names and subject registers . Leipzig 1942

literature

• Yearbook of the German Libraries . Volume 30 (1939), p. 181
• Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Edingen-Neckarshausen 2006, p. 129
• Peter Vodosek , Manfred Komorowski (eds.): Libraries during National Socialism: Lectures at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Wolfenbüttel Working Group for Library History from April 11 to 14, 1988 in the Herzog August Library . Wiesbaden 1989, p. 176; 183.
• Alexandra Habermann / Reiner Klemmt / Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1924–1980 , Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2004, p. 32.