Herbert Stubenrauch (Librarian)
Herbert Stubenrauch is an honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim.
Herbert Hans Wilhelm Stubenrauch (born January 9, 1896 in Valparaíso , † November 5, 1958 in Mannheim ) was a German library director , publisher and literary scholar .
Life
Herbert Stubenrauch attended high school in Berlin-Friedenau and then studied German , art history , archeology and literary history in Berlin and Greifswald . During the First World War , Stubenrauch began doing military service on the side of the Triple Alliance in 1914 and remained in service until 1918. After the war, Stubenrauch received his doctorate in 1920 with his studies on the compilation of legends of the foundation of the Einsiedeln monastery in the Heidelberg manuscript Cpgm. 111 .
Stubenrauchstraße assumed age of 27, after completing his studies, the graduation to the Dr. phil. and an apprenticeship in publishing in Berlin, the publishing bookstore founded in Berlin by his grandfather Adolf Ludwig Albert Stubenrauch, which was henceforth called Herbert-Stubenrauch-Verlagbuchhandlung. The main focus of the publishing program was folklore , ethnology and biology .
In 1927 Wilhelm Fraenger , director of the Mannheim Palace Library at the time, brought Stubenrauch to Mannheim as a research assistant. Both set about increasing the library holdings and integrating other valuable libraries into the palace library. At the same time, the number of staff in the library was increased three to four times. In 1932 the palace library was merged with other private libraries from the citizens of Mannheim and the library of the municipal commercial school founded in 1907 (30,000 volumes).
In 1930 the two formed the so-called Mannheim Bibliophile Society , which published a number of annual editions. In 1933 Fraenger, like numerous other personalities of Mannheim's cultural life, was dismissed without notice as politically unreliable. In the same year the “Mannheim Bibliophile Society” was dissolved.
Stubenrauch was also temporarily no longer allowed to enter the castle library, but was reinstated into his office shortly afterwards, at the intercession of several members of the house, and was appointed director in 1938, although he had never committed himself to National Socialism .
Stubenrauch resisted the dismemberment of the Mannheim Palace Library by the Heidelberg University Library . Only about twelve thousand volumes from the Mannheim Commercial College Library were given to the Heidelberg University Library.
In 1937 the library of the National Theater was incorporated into the castle library under Stubenrauch. Otherwise, this inventory would have been destroyed with great certainty in an air raid on the night of November 5th to 6th, 1943, during which the city center of Mannheim and the National Theater were largely reduced to rubble and ashes. The holdings of the Mannheim National Theater were thus saved for posterity.
By 1939 the holdings of the castle library had grown to around 170,000 volumes. Stubenrauch himself was drafted into the Wehrmacht and remained in military service until 1945 without losing his position as director of the municipal castle library.
In 1946, part of the stock was returned to Mannheim and a provisional lending business was opened in the two guard houses (now demolished) of the palace building. The holdings of the former city library and the palace library established the foundation for a scientific library and are still owned by the Mannheim Palace University Library to this day.
Herbert Stubenrauch looked after the valuable library of the Mannheim National Theater, which contained programs and prompts since 1779, and made it publicly accessible to other scholars. He was the editor of numerous Friedrich von Schiller editions and wrote several essays on Schiller's time in Mannheim and the history of the theater in Mannheim. In addition, Stubenrauch was a member of the German Schiller Society and co-founder of its yearbook. When the Stuttgart central catalog was included in the loan system of the German libraries on April 1, 1963, the number of loan requests increased twenty-fold. The scientific world has thus recognized the importance and rank for international research. As a result, Stubenrauch succeeded in not only increasing the budget position of the library significantly to 130,000 DM in 1963 , but also in receiving valuable support from companies and individuals.
H. Stubenrauch did not experience the planned new library building, which could not be realized due to a financial bottleneck. He died of a heart attack in 1958.
Herbert Stubenrauch had a daughter, Eva Lehr, born with his wife Charlotte Stubenrauch. Stubenrauch, painter and first married to the firstborn son of John Rabe .
literature
- Mannheim booklets. Issue 1, 1971.
supporting documents
- Herbert Mayer: The scientific city library Mannheim and the German central catalogs. In: Mannheimer Hefte. No. 1, 1964, pp. 25-27.
- Carl Zuckmayer : As if it were a piece of me. 1966, DNB 458738794 , pp. 286/87.
- Ludwig W. Böhm: Herbert Stubenrauch in memoriam. In: Mannheimer Hefte. Volume 3, 1959, pp. 25-28.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians: 1925 - 1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 202 .
- ↑ Marchivum
- ↑ Germersheim Translator Lexicon . Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ^ Wilhelm Fraenger Society e. V. - Fraenger biography: Wilhelm Fraenger 1933–1945. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ^ Stubenrauch, Herbert. In: Common Authority File (GND). GND cooperative, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stubenrauch, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stubenrauch, Herbert Hans Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German library director, Schiller researcher, publisher and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valparaíso |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1958 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |