Gustav Struck

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Gustav Struck (born January 27, 1889 in Rostock , † November 14, 1957 in Kassel ) was a German librarian.

Life

Struck attended the large city school in Rostock ; he then did a commercial apprenticeship and worked in the sugar export business from 1905 to 1908. From 1910 he studied philosophy, German literature and history, first at the Berlin University, from 1913 at the Rostock University . In 1919, he was here with a 1917 submitted and now award-winning dissertation on Friedrich Bouterwek Dr. phil. PhD. In February 1919 he joined the Mecklenburg library service at the Rostock University Library . In 1920 he published a transfer of the Redentiner Easter game in modern Mecklenburg flat . On November 1, 1921, he moved to the Kassel State Library and was appointed library councilor in 1925. In Hesse, too, he continued to study dialect literature .

Since May 1, 1933, a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1,847,769), Struck was appointed director of the Lübeck city library with effect from November 1, 1933 as the successor to Willy Pieth , who had been dismissed by the National Socialist Senate . In 1934 he became the part-time director of the Lübeck adult education center . In the NSDAP he was a district training speaker and specialist in the “Department for Popular Education” and department specialist for “Music, Literature and Libraries”. He was active at the Low German Stage and from 1935 to 1937 its director. Struck appeared as a reviewer for theater and concerts in the Lübeckische Blätter . His reviews repeatedly indicate a glowing commitment to National Socialism .

On August 1, 1940, he became director of the Wiesbaden State Library . He was jointly responsible for the book theft in favor of the state library. On behalf of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg , he was involved in the selection of fonts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. In 1944 he was interested in returning to his previously vacant position in Lübeck.

Dismissed after the end of the war in 1945, he initially found a job with the Evangelical Relief Organization in Wiesbaden. Since 1947 he was employed by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel and worked on the project The Music in Past and Present .

Fonts

  • Friedrich Bouterwek: His life, his writings and his philosophical teachings. Award typeface awarded by the University of Rostock. C. Hinstorff, Rostock 1919 (originally dissertation)
  • The Öllste Mäkelbörger Osterspill, that schräben is in that Johr 1464 by Peter Kalff. Ut dei olle Sassensprak in uns' hütiges Mäkelbörger Platt öwerdragen by Gustav Struck. Behrend & Boldt, Rostock 1920.
  • Manuscript treasures of the Kassel State Library. Described by Gustav Struck. (= The Kassel State Library 1580–1930. Volume 2). Elwert in Komm., Marburg 1930.
  • Low German Lübeck. Volume 1 (Gustav Struck made the selection) The municipal commissioner for Low German culture, Lübeck 1937.
  • as publisher: Correspondence between Emanuel Geibel and Karl Goedeke. (= Publications of the libraries of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. NR Volume 1). Self-published by the Lübeck City Library in 1939.
  • Johann Gutenberg, the German master: Speech given at the opening of the Gutenberg Week in Lübeck on June 16, 1940. [sl]: [sn] (Printed by: Lübeck: Rahtgens) 1940.

literature

  • Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 39). 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 795 f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9865 . (with portrait)
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 984 ff. (Biographical information)
  • Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 , pp. 144ff. and Index p. 676 (Reviewer Activity).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the matriculation entry and Grewolls; Fligge (lit.) has 1880
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ See his published lecture The Importance of Dialect Literature for Scientific Libraries. In: Central Journal for Libraries. 50, (1933), pp. 573-580.
  4. ↑ Jörg Fligge: Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. 2018, p. 449, see p. 447–451 there in detail on Struck reviews
  5. ↑ Konrad Wiedemann : Nazi looted property in the Kassel State Library 1933–1945. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Volume 59, 2009, pp. 119-134. ( online , accessed November 17, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Struck, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1957
Place of death kassel