Jürgen Hering

Jürgen Hering (born September 15, 1937 in Chemnitz ) is a German librarian.

Career

Hering came as the son of the senior teacher Karl Hering and Margot Hering, geb. Schubert, to the world. After graduating from high school, he applied to study theater studies. This request was not granted and instead he was given a place at the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Leipzig , a cadre forge in the GDR. Fellow students who saw his diary entries criticizing the school management denounced Hering. The corresponding passages were read publicly in the university auditorium, Hering was declared a class enemy and expelled from the university. In 1956 he moved to the Federal Republic.

He first came to Riedenberg near Stuttgart. In courses offered by the Evangelical Relief Organization , he prepared for the West German university entrance qualification examination and then continued his studies in German, history and Russian at the universities in Stuttgart, Munich and Tübingen. After passing the assessor exam in Cologne, he joined the Stuttgart University Library in 1967 . In 1974 he was appointed library director and one year later took over the management of the house, which he held until the end of 1996. At the request of the Saxon State Minister for Science and Art Hans Joachim Meyer , Hering moved to Dresden on January 1, 1997 as General Director of the Saxon State and University Library - Dresden State and University Library . During his tenure, the library was rebuilt, making it the largest new cultural building in East Germany after the fall of the Wall . After reaching the age limit, he was retired in 2003.

In addition to his professional tasks, Hering is involved in various specialist groups and associations on a voluntary basis. He was federal chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB) for four years and chairman of the German Library Association (DBV) for three years . During this time he prepared the unification of the two German associations. From 1992 onwards, the German-Russian government commission took part in the negotiations on the repatriation of cultural goods relocated during the war (→ restitution of looted art ).

From 1999 to 2003 Hering was a member of the Advisory Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and has been the managing director of the Max Kade Foundation since the early 1980s .

Honors

• 1999: Honorary professor at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig
• 2002: Festschrift for the 65th birthday
• June 23, 2003: Saxon Order of Merit
• July 1, 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Marc Schieferecke: A résumé like a character in a novel. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 3, 2009.
• Library manager in Stuttgart and Dresden - Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Jürgen Hering , Info 592 of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Hering in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jürgen Hering in the Saxon Bibliography