Johannes Dürkop

Johannes Dürkop , full name Ernst Hermann Johannes Dürkop (born December 10, 1905 in Stadthagen , † April 1945 near Magdeburg ) was a German art historian .

Dürkop was the son of the teacher Wilhelm Dürkop and his wife Else, née Sander. He completed his school career in 1925 at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig with the Abitur . He then studied art history, history, German literature and philosophy in Jena, Munich and Halle from 1925 to 1930. In 1930 he was at the University of Halle in Paul Frankl with a thesis master of the housebook doctorate . From January to September 1931 he was a volunteer at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig , and from October 1931 to June 1932 he was a fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . From May 1935 he worked as an assistant at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum. As a staunch National Socialist ( party member since 1931) he was appointed on October 1, 1935 by the Brunswick Minister-President Dietrich Klagges as director of the until then municipal patriotic museum in Braunschweig. On the same day the museum was nationalized and renamed the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum für Geschichte und Volkstum in 1938 . He redesigned it into a National Socialist museum.

In 1943 Dürkop married the organist Hilde Pfeiffer . During the Second World War , Dürkop was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier from 1939 to 1940 and again in 1944 ; he fell in April 1945 near Magdeburg.

Publications

• The master of the house book. Gutenberg, Braunschweig 1931 (= dissertation).
• The master of the house book. In: Upper Rhine Art. 5, 1932, pp. 83-160.
• The master of the house book: Addendum to the works of the house book master. In: Upper Rhine Art. 6, 1934, pp. 61-67.
• Museum system in Braunschweig. In: Völkischer Beobachter. Special supplement from January 16, 1938, p. 4.

literature

• Jens Hoppe: Jewish history and culture in museums. On the non-Jewish museology of the Jewish in Germany. Waxmann, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1178-5 , pp. 102-107.
• Dirk Rupnow : Destroy and Remember. Traces of National Socialist memory politics. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-892-44871-X , pp. 115–118.
• Braunschweig Municipal Museum and University of Fine Arts (ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. Catalog of the exhibition from April 16, 2000 to July 2, 2000, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X .

Web links

• Literature by Johannes Dürkop in the catalog of the German National Library