Heinz Werner (Librarian)
Heinz Werner (born January 30, 1921 in Berlin ; † February 10, 1997 there ) was a German librarian .
Life
Werner completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer at Siemens . He was a soldier in World War II . He then studied law and in 1949 became a legal advisor in the Berlin City Library . From 1951 to 1991 he was director of the library. During his 40-year tenure, the Berlin City Library became the most heavily used academic general library in East Berlin and a culture and literature center with exhibitions, a Urania lecture center and the Berlin Record Theater.
In 1958 Werner arranged for a car library to be set up to supply literature to the outskirts of East Berlin. He initiated the development of a phono library in 1955, an art library and slide library ( slide series ) in 1969 and the first linguistic library (language courses on records and tape cassettes ) in the GDR in 1971. In 1971 Werner was appointed senior librarian . He received his doctorate in 1972 from the Humboldt University in Berlin .
In addition to his work in the city library, Werner also worked as a university lecturer for library law. From 1983 he was professor at the Institute for Library Science and Scientific Information at the Humboldt University.
He was active in the German Library Association of the GDR and was significantly involved in the implementation of the Library Ordinance and the reorganization of copyright law in the GDR. Werner was chairman of the Berlin Goethe Society . He was elected Vice President of the International Association of Music Libraries, Music Archives and Music Documentation Centers (AIBM) in 1980.
His grave is in the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery in Berlin.
Awards
- 1968 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1973 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1980 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1986 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
Fonts
- Legal ABC for librarians . Leipzig 1975.
literature
- Gabriele Beger: Heinz Werner wrote Berlin history . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 20, 1997.
- Ralph Lansky: Legal librarianship contacts in divided Germany. (With an obituary by Gabriele Beger for Heinz Werner.) In: West-eastern gang. Memories of inter-German library contacts. Edited by Georg Ruppelt . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISSN 0514-6364 , ( Journal for Libraries and Bibliography. Special Volume 103.) pp. 81–90 and 198–199.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buried persons in contemporary history. Oberschöneweide cemetery. on www.berlin.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1997 |
| Place of death | Berlin |