Georg Minde-Pouet

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Adolf Julius Georg Minde-Pouet (born June 5, 1871 in Berlin , † January 20, 1950 there ) was a German German studies scholar and librarian . As director, he headed the Dresden municipal collections and the German library in Leipzig .

Life

Georg Minde-Pouet grew up in Berlin. After completing school at the French grammar school in Berlin, he studied German, Romance philology, art history and philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin from 1890 . Here he joined the student union Landsmannschaft Spandovia . In 1895, Erich Schmidt did his doctorate on the subject of " Heinrich von Kleist's Language and Style ".

After his military service, Minde-Pouet began working as a volunteer at the Royal Museums in Berlin in 1897 . From 1898 to 1903 he worked in Poznan , first as a research assistant , from 1901 as an assistant, later as assistant director, at the Poznan State Library and the Provincial Museum, which was renamed the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in 1902 . In 1903 he moved to Bromberg , where he was the first librarian to set up and head the city library. He also had a teaching position at the Bydgoszcz Art and Crafts School and was awarded the title of professor in 1911.

On July 1, 1913 Minde-Pouet was appointed director of the Municipal Collections in Dresden ordered. The collections included the Ratsarchiv, the city ​​library , the city , Körner and Schilling museum . Minde-Pouet initiated a reorganization with a central administration of the collections. From 1915 to 1917 he took part in the First World War. During this time he had to sift through the Warsaw archives for source material on Saxon-Polish history at the archive administration of the General Government of Warsaw .

On May 1, 1917, Minde-Pouet was appointed director of the German library, which was being set up. He succeeded in preventing the young library from being dissolved due to insufficient subsidies from the maintenance providers ( Free State of Saxony , City of Leipzig and Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels ) by obtaining financial subsidies from the German Reich from 1919 onwards. Finally, during his tenure in office, the Reich could be won as an additional, permanent cost bearer at the beginning of 1923, thus ensuring the continued existence of the Deutsche Bücherei. On October 10, 1923, Minde-Pouet resigned and resigned. Due to moral and moral offenses, he had signed the draft of a resignation on October 23, 1923 with the Börsenverein. He had to forego pension entitlements.

In 1928 Minde-Pouet was employed as a laborer by the Prussian State Library , where he helped to compile the bibliography of the German universities. Between 1930 and 1931 he was involved in building the library of the German Museum in Munich . He then returned to the Prussian State Library and retired on March 31, 1937 when he reached the age limit. In April 1933 Minde-Pouet joined the NSDAP . From 1938 to 1945 he had a position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he worked as co-editor of the first volume of a new series of Karl Goedekes “Outline for the History of German Poetry”. From 1921 the Kleist researcher was chairman of the Kleist Society and editor of Kleist's works. He was a Freemason and, among other things, a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge on Secrecy .

estate

The scientific legacy, an extensive Kleist collection, including a collection of scientific essays, articles and reviews on the subject of Kleist (67 so-called "Kleistiana volumes"), numerous first editions of the poet, 1,300 volumes of Minde-Pouet's handset, was named after his Death taken over by the America Memorial Library . In 1996 this unique Kleist collection was transferred from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder), where it was handed over to the Kleist Memorial and Research Center for scientific processing.

family

Minde-Pouet married Marie Lemmen in 1899. The couple had three daughters.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, S. 166th
  2. ↑ a b c Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 286 f.
  3. ↑ press release. Edited by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture. Country Brandenburg. No. 97/96 of April 26, 1996. Minister Steffen Reiche accepted a unique Kleist collection.

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personal data
SURNAME Minde-Pouet, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1950
Place of death Berlin