Heinz Mahn

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Heinz Mahn , actually Johann Heinrich Mahn (* 1872 , † 1945 ) was a German architect, graduate engineer and building trade instructor who had a significant influence on the cultural life in Lübeck during the Weimar Republic .

Life

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Mahn worked as a building trade teacher at the building trade school in Lübeck until its dissolution in October 1923 . In addition, he worked as an architecture critic, including in the Lübeckische Blätter . In December 1923 he succeeded Rudolf Stucken as head of the news office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . This was initially the city's press office , but was also responsible for relations with the Nordic countries under the leadership of Senator Georg Kalkbrenner . The Nordic Week in Lübeck was conceived from the intelligence office in 1921 , from which the Nordic Society in Lübeck emerged and Mahn became its president. This Nordic week surprisingly attracted a lot of attention thanks to a poster by Alfred Mahlaus . Mahn was responsible for a large part of the organization of the extensive 700th anniversary in Lübeck in 1926. From 1927 to 1929 Mahn was a member of NORAG's cultural advisory board . In 1931 he was the organizer of the International Baltic Sea Year in Lübeck.

Mahn was appointed by the National Socialists in 1933 as a student councilor. W. according to § 6 of the law for the restoration of the professional civil service ("To simplify administration, civil servants can be retired, even if they are not yet incapacitated"). He was buried in the Burgtorfriedhof .

Mahn and Carl Georg Heise

In the politically controversial time of Lübeck's cultural policy, which came to a head in the run-up to the 700th anniversary of the city of Lübeck, Heinz Mahn stood by the Lübeck museum director and Behnhaus founder Carl Georg with clear and unequivocal words until the Nazis were brought into line Heise in the Lübeck Kulturkampf of the 1920s. The beginnings of this cooperation lay in Heise's critical examination of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg 's collection of paintings in the Museum am Dom , which Mahn gave a journalistic platform in Lübeck. At the opening of the Overbeck Society's exhibition pavilion in the New Objectivity style in 1930, he gave the laudation for the architect Wilhelm Bräck .

In the collection at the Behnhaus in Lübeck there is a portrait of Mahn by Charles Derlien . Curt Stoermer created Mahn's portrait for the Lübeckische Blätter .

Editorships

Heinz Mahn was editor of the Lübeckische Blätter from 1909 to 1922 and from 1924 editor of the Ostsee-Rundschau of the Nordic Society, from which later their monthly Der Norden emerged .

Fonts

  • Presidium of the Nordic Week (Ed.), Editor Prof. Mahn: Nordic Week Lübeck 1.-11. September 1921 commemorative publication. HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1921.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , inventory: 03.01-4 - Message office
  2. ^ Matthias Lau: Press policy as an opportunity: state public relations work in the countries of the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of communication 14), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner 2003 ISBN 9783515080712 , p. 367
  3. ↑ www.dra.de/rundfunkgeschichte/radiogeschichte
  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. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 400 ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0
  5. ↑ Abram B. Enns: Art and Citizenship, p. 36 ff.
  6. ↑ Feather, 29.5 x 23 cm, inv. 1933/136; see Jens-Uwe Brinkmann: Portrait of the Lübeckers 1780–1930. Lübeck: Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1973, p. 60 No. 214
personal data
SURNAME Warning, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahn, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, graduate engineer and construction teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1872
DATE OF DEATH 1945