Hermann Hagen (geographer)

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Hermann Georg Adolf Bessel Hagen (born January 25, 1889 in Heidelberg ; † April 9, 1976 in West Berlin ) was a German geographer , first library director from 1930 to 1957 and director of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin from 1946 to 1957 .

Life

Hagen's father was a professor of surgery, director of the city hospital Charlottenburg-Westend Fritz Karl Bessel-Hagen (1856–1945), his grandfather Adolf Hermann Wilhelm Hagen (1820–1894), city treasurer, city councilor in Berlin, member of the Reich and state parliament, his great-grandfather the Königsberg political economist and political scientist Carl Heinrich Hagen , (1785–1856); on his mother's side he descended from the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel . His brother was the mathematician Erich Bessel-Hagen .

From 1907 to 1914 Hagen studied geography and natural sciences at the Universities of Göttingen , Jena , Kiel , Berlin and Munich . In 1914 he received his doctorate from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1916 to 1918 Hagen worked in the cartographic department of the Deputy General Staff in Berlin. In 1919 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the Philipps University in Marburg , where he taught until 1928.

Hermann B. Hagen was one of the important collectors of the ethnological collection of the Phillips University of Marburg.

As early as 1925, Hagen established a Mexico library in the Marburg Geographical Institute with brochures, magazines, maps and images. As early as 1924, Hagen had convinced the later President Plutarco Elías Calles to support Mexico research with donations. In 1925 he then sent larger book donations to Marburg. From 1926 to 1927, Hagen then undertook a trip to Mexico on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education for the purpose of compiling the library and for geographic studies. With the support of President Plutarco Elías Calles and the cooperation with Mexican ministries, Hagen was able to purchase further large book stocks, which he brought to the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) from Marburg as one of the largest founding stocks .

Hagen's activities must also be seen in a larger context of the German-Mexican relations at the time, which had been pursued between the two countries for several decades. With this so-called "Mexico-Bücherei", which first came into Hagen's possession, there was ultimately a symbolic climax in the cooperation between these two countries in terms of culture.

Hagen also brought a larger amount of - z. For the first time in color, photographs or maps from the region to take home.

Hermann B. Hagen became the first library director of the IAI in 1930 and held this position until 1957. After 1945, the institute was about to be dissolved, particularly as a result of the activities of the then director Wilhelm Faupel during the Nazi era. After the Second World War , Berlin took over the institute and was able to save this facility. Hagen was the first director to head the institute from 1946 to 1957 after the end of the war.

The Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin also owns Hagen's estate .

plant

  • Geographical studies of the floristic relations of the Mediterranean and Oriental area to Africa, Asia and America. Erlangen 1914, DNB 57001316X .
  • Hermann B. Hagen, Bruno Dietrich, Franz Termer, Ernst Sorge: North and Central America - The Arctic in nature, culture and economy. Potsdam 1933, OCLC 256347164 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He published mainly as Hermann B. Hagen .
  2. ^ R. Vieweg: Hagen, Carl Ernst Bessel. In: New German Biography. 7 (1966), p. 471.
  3. ↑ http://www.universitaetssammlungen.de/sammlung/300
  4. ↑ http://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/?Ibero-Amerikanisches_Institut
  5. ↑ http://www.dimensionantropologica.inah.gob.mx/?p=3541 .
  6. ↑ Bridge between the worlds. 75 years of the Ibero-American Institute. (PDF; 184 kB) on the website of the Ibero-American Institute.
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Hermann Georg Adolf Bessel; Hagen, Hermann B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1976
Place of death West Berlin