Gottlieb Fritz

Gottlieb Fritz (born November 16, 1873 in Harlingerode a. Harz , † July 22, 1934 ) was a German librarian.

Life

Fritz attended high school in Wolfenbüttel and then studied literary history, history and classical philology in Zurich , Leipzig , Berlin and Braunschweig , where he passed the state examination in 1898. In 1896 he received his doctorate in Berlin. In 1897 he became an unskilled worker at the Charlottenburg City Library , and in 1898 a volunteer at the Berlin State Library . In 1899 he moved to the public library in Hamburg as director, a year later he became a librarian at the Berlin-Charlottenburg city library, where he was able to realize some of the ideas of the library movement . In 1914 he was given the title of professor. In 1922 Fritz got the position of the public library director of Greater Berlin and in 1924 he became director of the Berlin city library . At the same time he was head of the Berlin library school, and for years he edited the magazine “Bücherei und Bildungspflege”. In 1934 he was dismissed as director of the Berlin City Library. He also lost his position as head of the Berlin library school, which was closed in early 1933 by the Nazi regime. In August 1933, criminal proceedings against Fritz had been initiated for alleged irregularities in the purchase of a private library. The proceedings were discontinued in 1934; Fritz couldn't get over this blow and died that same year.

Fonts (selection)

• The player in the German drama of the 18th century , Berlin: Paul 1896 (Berlin, Univ., Phil. Fak., Inaug.-Diss., 1896).
• The redesign of the urban library system: In addition to an overview of the current state of the library movement , Berlin: R. Gaertner 1902 (lectures and essays from the Comenius Society; Vol. 10, St. 3).
• Successes and goals of the German book hall movement 1902–1907 , Berlin: Weidmann 1907 (lectures and articles from the Comenius Society; 15.3).
• The modern popular education system: book and reading halls, adult education centers and related educational institutions in the most important cultural countries in their development since the middle of the 19th century , Leipzig: Teubner 1909 (Aus Natur und Geisteswelt; 266).
• The German library movement of the forties . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Vol. 31 (1914), pp. 489–502.
• Public libraries (book and reading halls); their establishment and administration , Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter 1924 (Göschen Collection; 332).
• The training for the middle library service at scientific libraries as well as for the service at public libraries , Berlin: Hermann, 1925 (publications of the library courses in the Berlin city library; 1).

literature

• Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 86f.
• Ulrich Hohoff: Scientific librarians as victims of the Nazi dictatorship. An overview of 250 résumés since 1933 . In: o-bib, Vol. 2 (2015), No. 2 ( online ).