Kurt Zierold

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Kurt Zierold (born February 5, 1899 in Bromberg ; † May 31, 1989 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official.

Life

Kurt Zierold was the son of the officer Max Zierold and his wife Edith, nee William. After brief military service during the First World War and having passed the school leaving examination, he completed a law degree at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Greifswald. After passing the first state examination in law, he was awarded a doctorate in 1921 in Greifswald. jur. doctorate and laid later in Berlin , the second state examination in law. In 1925 he joined the Prussian Ministry of Culture as a consultant . First government councilor, he was promoted to senior government councilor and in 1934 to ministerial councilor. He contributed to the establishment of the educational academies and the literary department ( poets' academy ) of the Prussian Academy of Arts . He was appointed to the art department of the ministry by Adolf Grimme in 1931. In 1932 he was responsible for the culture and film departments.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists, Zierold remained as a non-party in the Prussian Ministry of Culture and in 1934 took over the chairmanship of the Reich Office for Educational Film , which he co-founded , later the Reich Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education . He brought his old friend Adolf Reichwein there too . Since 1941 he was married to Gudrun, nee Trowitzsch.

After the end of the Second World War , he again headed the science and art department in the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony , appointed by von Grimme from the beginning of September 1945 . From 1949 he was executive vice-president of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft and was secretary general of its successor organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, from 1952 to 1964. As such, he acquired the assets of a friendship alliance of the Reich University of Strasbourg, which was active from the Nazi era until 1960, with the stipulation "to support scientific work from former Strasbourg professors and lecturers [...], regardless of whether the gentlemen in question are still in university service stand".

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . In 1959 he became an honorary member of the Association of German Librarians .

Fonts (selection)

  • Does the civil code know a subjective right of inheritance? , Greifswald, R.- u. state science Diss., 1921
  • The Pedagogical Academies , Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1930 (together with Paul Rothkugel)
  • The film in school and university: The official determination about d. Educational film , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1936
  • The nature and development of educational films in Germany , Reichsstelle fd educational film, Berlin 1938 (from: Film u. Bild in Wissenschaft, Erziehg u. Volksbildg. 1938, no.10.11)
  • University problems of today , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1948
  • Humanities written in lower case ?: A conversation about d. Essential difference of mental u. Natural sciences , non-profit management company f. Wissenschaftspflege mbH, Essen-Bredeney 1963
  • Research funding in three epochs: German Research Foundation. History, working method, commentary , F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968
  • Research, teaching and education: essays from d. Time d. Reconstruction and re-establishment of the German Hochsch. , Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Who's who in Germany , Volume 1, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1956, p. 1299
  2. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 10, Thies-Zykan, Munich 2008, p. 846
  3. ↑ a b The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38: Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 / edit. by Reinhold Zilch, with collabor. by Bärbel Holtz. Acta Borussica, New Series / ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly the Prussian Academy of Sciences)., Volume 2, Olms-Weidmann, 2004, p. 736
  4. ^ Kai Burkhardt: Adolf Grimme. A biography. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007, p. 248
  5. ↑ Gottfried Benn. Letters to Tilly Wedekind 1930–1955 (Letters Vol. IV). Edited and with an afterword by Marguerite Valerie Schlüter. Stuttgart 1986, p. 378
  6. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 192.
  7. ^ Felicitas Hundhausen: Association of German Librarians 1900–2000. Bibliography and Documentation , Wiesbaden 2004, p. 321
personal data
SURNAME Zierold, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1989
Place of death bad Godesberg