Hermann Nollau

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Hermann Nollau (born December 13, 1878 in Königswinter , † August 19, 1969 in Kassel ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was director of the art academies in Königsberg and Kassel.

Life

Nollau came from a family that had lived in Saxony (Meißen) and Silesia since the 17th century, and later also in West Prussia , and produced lawyers and officers. As the sixth child of his parents, Nollau attended the Kgl. Bonn High School . From 1897 he studied art history and German language and literature for four semesters at the University of Munich , the University of Berlin and the University of Bonn . This was followed by four semesters of law, political science and history at the universities of Freiburg , Munich and Bonn. In 1901/02 he traveled to Italy, Switzerland and France. He then continued his legal studies in Leipzig and Bonn. On May 23, 1903, he passed the first state examination (good) in Cologne. He began his legal clerkship at the district court in Eitorf and at the regional court in Bonn . On July 23, 1904, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. From February to June 1905 he was with the public prosecutor in Bonn, then as a government trainee with the government in Breslau . On November 23, 1907, he passed the Great State Examination in Law (sufficient). He began his time as a government assessor on January 3, 1908 with the police chief of Aachen. In 1910 he published a short history of the authorities for his office. Since 1913 in the district of Stade , was employed as an unskilled worker at the Verden district office . In 1914 he came to the administrative district of Köslin and was assigned to the upper insurance office. When the war ended in 1918 he was Councilor in Koszalin. In the State Handbook of 1922 he is listed as a senior government councilor for the President of the Rhine Province in Koblenz.

Koenigsberg

Soon afterwards he was transferred to the position of Upper President in East Prussia . There he had business to do with the Königsberg Art Academy , in accordance with his cultural-historical inclinations . During these years there were irreconcilable differences between the academy director Wilhelm Thiele and the professors and students there. Thiele therefore left Königsberg at the end of 1924. Thereupon the (Prussian) Minister for Science, Art and Education transferred the position of director to Nollau. He should continue the reform of the artist education begun in 1921. Since 1925/26 Nollau was also chairman of the artistic advisory board of the East Prussia regional group of the German Academy . This was intended to emphasize the national importance of art promotion in the province of East Prussia, which is cut off from the rest of the Reich territory. Nollau managed to steer the work of the academy in a quieter direction. This was noticed in Königsberg through exhibitions and other high-profile events, which was shown by repeated lengthy articles in the Königsberg newspapers. As a special event, Nollau initiated the exhibition with the title “East Prussian Art 1927” in the Berlin City Palace at the German Art Association , the opening lecture of which was given by Heinrich Wolff , who has been active in Königsberg for decades . Nollau Aufbauwerk also included the appointment of new professors such as Fritz Burmann and Alfred Particle . The New Objectivity style was preferred . There were also close ties to the Nidden artists' colony . Nollau's work and the ministerial intentions were nullified by the emergency ordinance of December 23, 1931, when Finance Minister Otto Klepper enforced the dissolution of the Königsberg and Breslau Art Academy on April 1, 1932. although numerous protests from the Reich President to the Provincial Parliament to the professional associations tried to prevent this by pointing out the cultural and political damage to the eastern areas of the German Reich . As a civil servant on hold, N. continued to run a "trunk academy" with a few master workshops until August 1932. In a letter to the Reich Commissioner for East Prussia dated August 23, 1932, Nollau asked, in the event that the academy was not reopened at the beginning of the following month, for continued employment in the civil service in line with his civil service claims.

kassel

Without waiting for the Königsberg Academy to be continued with a new honorary director ( Kurt Frick ) and at least five master studios since April 1, 1933, after the Reich President and the Prussian Prime Minister intervened , Nollau was appointed Chief President of Hesse on October 10, 1933. Nassau moved to Kassel. There he was head of department in the 1st department, at the same time maintaining this position as director ie R., according to the state manual since 1938 director z. D., of the Kassel Art Academy ; because after the closure as a result of the financial crisis of 1931/32, work continued in this academy. From 1939 he was also state commissioner for the Kaufungen knightly foundation . The destruction of the Hessian State Library in Kassel (1942) prompted Nollau to contact the Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education on behalf of the Upper President. A circular issued by the Reich Finance Minister and the Reich Minister of the Interior encouraged him (unsuccessfully) to compensate for the losses in the State Library with books from the possession of tax offices. It is unknown whether he thought of the work of the Reich Exchange Office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , which bought books from "enemy property" for similar purposes. For his work in the air raid on Kassel on October 22, 1943 , he was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class. His own apartment was destroyed on January 2, 1945. Since the custodian for the state art collections for the Volkssturm was convened, Nollau was also given the responsibility of a director of these collections on February 1, 1945. After the end of the war, he was given a leave of absence on August 9, 1945 by order of the US military government and released on August 17. As a retired worker in Greater Hesse , he received the maintenance contribution for dismissed civil servants. He lived in Kassel for another 24 years.

Memberships

Works

  • People King. Three German folk tales . Leipzig 1900.
  • Pompeian religions . Leipzig 1901.
  • News about the Nollau family 1607-1905 , Bonn 1905
  • The development of the Royal Prussian Police Authority in Aachen 1818-1910 , Aachen 1910
  • Constitutional investigation into possible forms of solving the Thuringian question , Halle 1919
  • Germanic resurrection. A work on the Germanic foundations of our morality , ed. v. HN, Heidelberg 1926
  • The position of the art academy in the development of the fine arts of East Prussia . Ostmärkische Akademische Rundschau, No. 7, S.-S. 1931, Königsberg July 21, pp. 59–60, portrait after p. 62
  • Get East Prussia's art! For the continuation of the Königsberg Academy . Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 378, August 13, 1932.

literature

  • Bernhart Jähnig : Nollau, Hermann Christian Otto, Oberregierungsrat, Art Academy Director in Königsberg and Kassel , in: Three supplements to the "Old Prussian Biography" (2017)
    • Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, I. HA, Rep. 76 Kultusmin., Ve Sect. 20 Dept. I No. 2, Vol. 6; Rep. 90 A State min. Young. Registr., No. 1778; Rep. 120 Handelsmin., EX, No. 184
    • Hess. StA Marburg, inventory 401.2 Reg.Kassel, No. 535
    • CV in Nollau's dissertation.
    • Handbook about the (Royal) Prussian (Court and) State, years 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939
    • Günter Krüger ao: Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945 , Duisburg / Regensburg 1982, pp. 34 f., 60, 9
    • Kristina Kraatz-Kessemaier: Art for the Republic. The art policy of the Prussian Ministry of Culture 1918 to 1932, Berlin 2008, p. 312 f. Note 80, 331–340, 565
    • Cornelia Briel: Confiscated, blackmailed, captured . Berlin 2013, p. 97 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The law of the colonial societies established on the basis of the Reich Law regarding the legal relationships of the German protected areas . Printed in: Zeitschrift für Kolonialpolitik, Kolonialrecht und Kolonialwirtschaft, Vol. 6 No. 6.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Bernhart Jähnig (2016)
  3. ^ Wilhelm Thiele in Altpreußische Biographie, p. 1296.
personal data
SURNAME Nollau, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nollau, Hermann Christian Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, director of the art academies in Königsberg and Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1969
Place of death kassel