Karl Julius Hartmann

Karl Julius Hartmann (born March 9, 1893 in Homberg ; † March 7, 1965 in Göttingen ) was a German physician and director of the Göttingen State and University Library .

From 1911 - with interruptions due to military service from 1914 to 1919 - he studied Protestant theology, medicine and philosophy in Tübingen , Munich , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1914 he was at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on Schopenhauer Dr. phil. PhD. In 1919 the doctorate to Dr. med. at the University of Marburg .

After the unsuccessful attempt to settle down as a doctor in Holland and Switzerland, Hartmann joined the library service at the Münster University Library in 1922 and passed the library specialist examination in 1923. After stations in Münster, Königsberg and Göttingen, he was appointed director of the Münster University Library in 1934 and director of the Göttingen University Library in 1935. From 1938 he was also honorary professor at the University of Göttingen , and from 1939 to 1963 he was secretary of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Hartmann joined the NSDAP in 1933 . During National Socialism , in addition to his work as director in Göttingen, he was also acting head of the university library in Strasbourg (1942–1945) and a member of the Reich Advisory Board for Libraries (1942–1944). During his tenure in Göttingen there were layoffs, forced retirement and usage bans for Jewish and politically unpleasant employees of the library. In 1948 he was classified as a follower in the course of the denazification and was therefore able to continue his office as library director.

Hartmann worked as a director in Göttingen until he retired in 1958. In addition, he was elected as the only former member of the Reich Advisory Council in 1950 to the newly founded library committee of the German Research Foundation . During his tenure, numerous important innovations were implemented or completed in the Göttingen SUB, for example the conversion to individual signatures , a new systematic card catalog and the revision of the keyword catalog .

literature

• Bargheer, Margo and Ceynowa, Klaus (eds.): Tradition and Future - the Goettingen State and University Library - a performance record on the 65th birthday of Elmar Mittler . Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-938616-03-1 .
• Bartels, Nicole, Deinert, Juliane, Enderle, Wilfried and Rohlfing, Helmut: Books under suspicion. Nazi looted and looted property at the SUB Goettingen . Catalog of the exhibition from May 13th - July 10th 2011. Göttingen Library Writings, Volume 38. Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86395-027-9 .
• Deinert, Juliane: "Politicizing [...] strictly prohibited" - The Göttingen University Library in the pre-war years between 1933 and 1939. Berlin Handouts on Library and Information Science, issue 409 .
• Enderle, Wilfried: Karl Julius Hartmann as director of the university library in Göttingen (1935–1958) . In Knoche, Michael and Schmitz, Wolfgang (Hrsg.): Scientific librarians in National Socialism. Scope of action, continuities, patterns of interpretation. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06407-1 .
• Grunwald, Wilhelm: Karl Julius Hartmann in memory . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Volume 12 [1965], pp. 270–273. Berlin handouts on library and information science, issue 409.
• Kind-Doerne, Christiane: The Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen. Your holdings in the past and present (contributions to books and libraries 22), Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-447-02590-5 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Josef Becker	Director of the Göttingen University Library 1921–1932	Wilhelm Martin Luther