Heinrich Haxel

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Heinrich Haxel (born February 10, 1901 in Stettin , † February 24, 1971 in Dortmund ) was a German librarian and literary scholar.

Life

Heinrich Haxel was born on February 10, 1901 in Stettin. In his hometown he attended the Schiller-Realgymnasium and followed it with a commercial apprenticeship. From 1922 to 1926 he was employed by the Wm. Schlutow bank .

From 1926 he studied German , history and philosophy at the University of Greifswald . From 1931 to 1933 he was a volunteer at the Stettin library under its director Erwin Ackerknecht . In 1933 Haxel obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Greifswald. From 1933 to 1945 he was deputy director of the Stettiner Volksbücherei and, during the war, head of the State People's Library for Pomerania. On March 4, 1945, Haxel was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was briefly captured by the British after the end of the war.

As a displaced person , he chose Detmold as his new home in autumn 1945 . Here Haxel worked from 1946 as a librarian at the Lippische Landesbibliothek . As Erich Kittel's successor , he was appointed acting director of the institute on December 1, 1950, and finally director from April 1, 1953. During his term of office, among other things, the acquisition of valuable autographs and the magazine extension planned from 1957 in 1964/65. Heinrich Haxel retired on February 28, 1966; he died two weeks after his 70th birthday on February 24, 1971 in Dortmund.

literature

  • Gerhard Oestreich (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1954 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, p. 838 .
  • Wilhelm Hansen : Heinrich Haxel in memory . In: Heimatland Lippe . 1971, p. 112-114 .
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925 - 1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 115-116 .
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 226–227.

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personal data
SURNAME Haxel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1971
Place of death Dortmund