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Gustav Abb (born February 23, 1886 in Berlin ; † April 28, 1945 there ) was a German librarian .

Life

Abb was the son of the secret government councilor Wilhelm Abb in the imperial civil cabinet. Abb studied history, German and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin. It was in 1911 with a dissertation about the monastery Chorin Dr. phil. doctorate and began in the same year as a trainee at the University Library Greifswald . He then went to the Göttingen University Library as an assistant . After participating in the First World War, he continued his library career at the University Library in Berlin . From 1921 to 1925 he was chairman of the Prussian advisory council for library matters. In 1923 he became the library councilorPrussian State Library and headed the usage department there since 1928.

After the National Socialists seized power , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1935 he became director of the Berlin University Library .

From 1937 he was chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB) . In the year after the annexation of Austria on May 30, 1939, in the opening speech at the annual meeting of the VDB in Graz , he declared that “in the whole of world history there had been no […] intellectual revolution”, “which made the power of books and libraries clearer recognized and put it in their service more extensively than National Socialism ” . In the following telegram of homage to Hitler, he praised Hitler as the “creator and multiplier of the German Reich” and praised the loyalty of the librarians.

During the Second World War , Abb, who was SS-Sturmbannführer, was appointed head of the main library administration in occupied Poland, the Generalgouvernement , in July 1940 . After the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he was appointed commissioner for securing the libraries and looking after books in the eastern operational area in the Reichsleiter Rosenberg's operational staff . In plain language, this office meant nothing else than the organization of art theft from libraries and archives.

After the war, his work The Scientific Librarian (Lehrmittelzentrale der DAF , Berlin 1941) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Abb was married to Margarete, b. Fleck, the couple had two daughters: Friederike and Franziska.

Fonts

  • History of the Chorin Monastery. Warneck, Berlin 1911 (published also as Inaug.-Diss. Berlin 1911).
  • The former Franciscan library in Brandenburg a. H. A contribution to the history of the book trade in the Brandenburg region in the Middle Ages . In: Central Journal for Libraries . 39th year, 11th u. No. 12, 1922, pp. 475-499.
  • Schleiermacher's regulations for the Royal Library of Berlin from 1813 and its history . Breslauer, Berlin 1926.
  • with Gottfried Wentz : The Diocese of Brandenburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 1929 ( Germania sacra , section 1, vol. 1). Volume 1 (PDF)
  • The flat card index in the lending office . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 49, 1932, pp. 177–182.
  • The German State Library in Krakow . In: The General Government . 1st year, series 7/8, 1941, pp. 42–48.

literature

  • Yorck Alexander Haase: The library days in the time of National Socialism . In: Engelbert Plassmann , Ludger Syré (ed.): Association of German Librarians 1900–2000 . Festschrift. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04247-8 , pp. 81-100.
  • Michael Labach: The VDB during National Socialism . In: Engelbert Plassmann, Ludger Syré (ed.): Association of German Librarians 1900–2000 . Festschrift. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04247-8 , pp. 59-80.
  • Piotr Lechowski: Biblioteki Krakowa w okresie okupacji niemieckiej. 1939-1945 . = Cracow libraries during the Nazi occupation . Polskie Towarzystwo Bibliologiczne, Krakow 1999, ISBN 83-233-1297-4 .
  • Andrzej Mezynski: Scientific Libraries in the Generalgouvernement. Facts and Myths . In: Antonius Jammers (ed.): The relations of the Berlin State Library to Poland. Reflections on contemporary and existing history. Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage . Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-89500-054-X , pp. 47-80 ( contributions from the Berlin State Library, Preußischer Kulturbesitz 5).
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 9.
  2. ↑ a b Complete quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 9.
  3. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation
personal data
SURNAME Fig, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death Berlin