Irmgard Spencker

Irmgard Spencker , née Feifer (born July 15, 1941 in Leipzig ; † October 17, 2017 there ), was a German librarian . As a permanent representative of the general director of the former federal agency Die Deutsche Bibliothek , based in Leipzig, she headed the Deutsche Bücherei from 1996 to 2001.

In 1959 Irmgard Spencker passed the Abitur. Then she first studied for four semesters at the University of Construction in Leipzig . In 1961 she began her professional activity as a library assistant in the Deutsche Bücherei. In 1962, a distance learning course followed at the technical college for librarians named after Erich Weinert , which Spencker graduated in 1965 with a qualification as a librarian at academic libraries. In 1970 she married the doctor Friedrich-Bernhard Spencker (1941–2019) and became deputy head of the reading rooms department. After a distance learning at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she obtained the degree of a diploma librarian and in 1985 took over the management of the collection of exile literature. She later became, among other things, head of the user department and, since May 1992, she has also been an absentee representative of the director of the German library. On December 1, 1996, Irmgard Spencker succeeded Gottfried Rost as permanent representative of the director general of the then federal agency Die Deutsche Bibliothek. She retired on August 31, 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Irmgard Spencker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Elisabeth Niggemann , Michael Fernau : Irmgard Spencker (1941–2017) - In memoriam . Obituary of the DNB of October 30, 2017