Friedrich Wolffhardt

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Friedrich Wolffhardt (born December 7, 1899 in Landshut ; † 1945 ) was a German German scholar and librarian .

Friedrich Wolffhardt was the son of a high school teacher and attended the high school in Hof . After participating in the First World War, he studied German and theology at the universities of Munich, Erlangen and Greifswald from 1919. In 1923 he received his doctorate in Erlangen. He then taught in various schools.

In April 1941, at the suggestion of Martin Bormann, a friend of his , the NSDAP member Wolffhardt was commissioned to set up a library as part of the Linz special order (“ Führerbibliothek ”). He headed the collection point for the library as part of the party chancellery in the Führerbau in Munich with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . The collection point was moved to the former villa of Camillo Castiglioni in Grundlsee near Bad Aussee in August 1943 , and the books were stored in the Altaussee salt mine in 1944/45 .

On February 21, 1945 he was called up for military service at his own request and has been missing since 1945.

literature

  • Murray G. Hall, Christina Köstner: ... To get hold of all sorts of things for the National Library ... An Austrian institution during the Nazi era . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-205-77504-x , pp. 126–165.
  • Reinhard Schlueter: The shark. The rise and fall of Camillo Castiglioni . Zsolnay, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05741-8 , pp. 19-21.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation University of Greifswald .
  2. ↑ The symbolic in Thomas Mann and its development . Hof 1923 (three-page extract from the dissertation).
personal data
SURNAME Wolffhardt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, active in building the "Führerbibliothek"
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH 1945