Hans Peter Des Coudres

Hans Peter Des Coudres , actually Jean Pierre Des Coudres (born September 27, 1905 in Berlin-Spandau , † January 8, 1977 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and librarian.

Life

Hans Peter Des Coudres was the son of Major General Richard Des Coudres (1865–1930). After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1925 . In the same year he was reciprocated in the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia Göttingen . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and the Hague Academy for International Law . In 1930 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 365.078). He passed the first state law examination in 1931 and was then a trainee lawyer. He was born in Leipzig in 1933 with Erwin Jacobi with a work onDoctorate in implementation of child labor protection law. In the same year he became a volunteer at the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig. In 1935 he passed the specialist examination for the higher library service and became a member of the SS (membership number 257.628). He was then head of the SS library ("Library of the Society for the Promotion and Care of German Cultural Monuments") on the Wewelsburg , a training and cult site leased by Himmler . In 1936 Des Coudres published a glorification of the SS under the title: The Schutzstaffel as a spiritual raiding party .

In 1939 Des Doudres became director of the Kassel State Library at the instigation of SS-Oberführer Wilhelm Traupel and Ministerialrat Rudolf Kummer , although he did not meet the civil service requirements. As director he was jointly responsible for the book robbery in favor of the state library. The reorganization he had started was interrupted by the outbreak of war when Des Coudres volunteered for the Waffen SS . In 1944 he became SS-Sturmbannführer and received the German Cross in Gold .

In 1945 Des Coudres lost the directorate of the Kassel library, which was destroyed in the war. From 1945 to 1948 he was an American and British prisoner of war. From 1950 he worked in the library of the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. In 1952 he moved to the library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law , which he headed from 1953 to 1971. Des Coudres was a co-founder of the Working Group for Legal Library and Documentation. He also worked as a bibliographer. In addition to legal bibliographies, he published lists of publications on, among others, Ernst Jünger and Joachim Ringelnatz .

literature

Werner Bräuninger : “I'm getting suspicious.” Extempore about Hans Peter des Coudres . in: Werner Bräuninger: "I didn't want to stand by ..." Lifestyles from Alfred Baeumler to Ernst Jünger. Essays. Ares Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-902475-32-3 , pp. 124-133.

Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 55-56.

Markus Moors: "The SS as an intellectual shock troop"? Dr. Hans-Peter des Coudres, trainer of the "SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg" 1935-1939. In: Jan Erik Schulte (ed.): The SS, Himmler and the Wewelsburg. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2009, ISBN 3-506763-74-1 , pp. 180-195 ( series of publications by the Wewelsburg District Museum . Volume 7).

Martin Otto: Hans-Peter des Coudres (1905-1977). A legal and bibliographical career . In: Journal of contemporary legal history. Volume 1, 2007, ISSN 1863-9984 , pp. 149–152.

Konrad Wiedemann: Nazi looted property in the Kassel State Library 1933–1945 . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . Volume 59, 2009, pp. 119-134 (on Des Coudres especially pp. 130-131).

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Peter Des Coudres in the catalog of the German National Library
Gerd Simon, Dagny Guhr: Chronology Coudres, Jean-Pierre des (PDF; 242 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 77/417.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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. 111.
↑ Konrad Wiedemann: Nazi looted property in the Kassel State Library 1933–1945 . In Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Volume 59, 2009, pp. 119-134 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Coudres, Hans Peter Des
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coudres, Jean Pierre Des
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Spandau
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1977
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 77/417.

[Klee111-2] 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. 111.

[3] Konrad Wiedemann: Nazi looted property in the Kassel State Library 1933–1945 . In Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Volume 59, 2009, pp. 119-134 ( digitized version ).