Karl Heinl

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Karl Heinl (* 1898 ; † 1961 ) was a German librarian and Nazi cultural functionary.

Life

Heinl received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1925 with the dissertation Prince Witold of Lithuania in his relationship to the Teutonic Order in Prussia during the time of his struggle for Lithuanian heritage: 1382-1401 . This was published by Matthiesen Verlag, which today belongs to the Husum publishing group, in the historical studies series as issue 165.

In June 1933, the librarian Heinl submitted a long memorandum to the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , in which he suggested the public libraries as the "ideal means" for reshaping the thinking of the entire nation. The memorandum was entitled Memorandum concerning the new building of the German public library system as part of the national educational program of the Reich government, which included the reorganization of the entire German popular and cultural life.

On October 26, 1933, he was one of the 88 signatories of the vow of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler who belonged to the writing guild and became a member of the NSDAP .

In 1936 and 1937 Heinl was managing director of the Reichsschrifttumskammer . In addition, he became head of Department I, administration of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and responsible for public libraries and language maintenance. In August 1935, Heinl gave the Gestapo his approval for the final confiscation of Reinhold Wulle's book Caesars (1934). In addition, he was involved in the deletion of the future Federal President of the FRG, Theodor Heuss , from the Reichsschrifttumskammer. In 1936, in a letter to Heinl's hands, he asked for a cancellation.

In 1936 Karl Heinl negotiated with Peter Suhrkamp about the " Aryanization " of S. Fischer Verlag AG, which, according to Volker Dahm from the Institute for Contemporary History, took place with "conciliatory modalities" and as a "fairly normal economic transaction" with "willingness to cooperate on the part of all those involved".

Publications

  • The Reichsschrifttumskammer and the professional integration , presentation, held at the general meeting of the Association of German People's Librarians on the occasion of its conference in Danzig on April 25, 1934. Shopping center for libraries, Leipzig 1934, DNB 363956328
  • Prince Witold of Lithuania in his relationship to the Teutonic Order in Prussia during the time of his struggle for the Lithuanian heritage: 1382-1401, (= historical studies , booklet 165 DNB ), E. Ebering, Berlin 1925, DNB 570693268 , OCLC 72094584 (Philosophical dissertation University of Berlin 1925, 200 pages).

Single receipts

  1. ^ Theodor Heuss: Theodor Heuss. Letters: On the Defensive: Letters 1933-1945 , ed. by Elke Seefried, De Gruyter, Stuttgart, 2009, p. 528
  2. ^ Prince Witold of Lithuania ... , Berlin, Phil. Diss., 1925, WorldCat
  3. ^ Prince Witold of Lithuania… Open Library
  4. ^ Historical studies at Heidelberg University
  5. ^ Jan-Pieter Barbian : The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany: Books in the Media Dictatorship, Bloomsbury, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-7923-4 , pages 78, 82.
  6. ↑ Joseph Wulf: Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich, 1963, p. 172.
  7. ↑ Joseph Wulf: Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich, 1963, p. 188.
  8. ^ Theodor Heuss: Theodor Heuss. Letters: On the Defensive: Letters 1933-1945 , ed. by Elke Seefried, De Gruyter, Stuttgart, 2009, p. 286
  9. ↑ Volker Dahm: The Jewish Book in the Third Reich. 2nd edition, CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-4063-7641-X , page 87f.
personal data
SURNAME Heinl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
DATE OF DEATH 1961