Lotte Bergtel-Schleif

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Elly Lotte Bergtel-Schleif , née Schleif (* July 4, 1903 in Lichterfelde ; † February 26, 1965 in East Berlin ), was a German librarian who was active in the resistance against National Socialism in the KPD and was director after the war the Berlin library school .

Life

Childhood, Youth and Education (1903–1925)

Elly Lotte Schleif was born in 1903 as the daughter of the elementary school teacher and vice-principal Fritz Schleif and his wife Martha. From 1909 to 1920 she attended the Lyceum and the Upper Lyceum . From 1921 to 1925 she trained as a librarian at the Central Public Libraries in Berlin , the Berlin-Mitte City Library and the Berlin State Library . She completed her training with the exam to become a qualified librarian at academic libraries in 1925.

Activity as a librarian (1925–1942)

After her training, she worked at the Stralsund City Library (1925–1927), the Free State Public Library Gera (1928–1930) and the Berlin-Neukölln City Library . From 1933 to 1937 she worked on a commission of the Association of German Librarians to establish binding rules for alphabetical cataloging . From 1936 to 1942 she was employed in the Nordmarkplatz library , Prenzlauer Berg , and from 1937 as its director. In 1939 she was made a civil servant for life.

Activity in the KPD and in the resistance (1930–1942)

In 1930 Schleif made the acquaintance of the librarian and sinologist Philipp Schaeffer and Heinrich Scheel . From 1933 she worked for the illegal KPD and was part of the resistance group around John Sieg , the Red Orchestra . Schleif carried out courier services, typing and copying services, brought the persecuted to the border with Czechoslovakia and made their quarters available for meetings and overnight stays. She helped Rudolf Bergtel escape . She also belonged to the resistance group around Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack . Robert Abshagen and numerous others from the communist resistance against National Socialism such as her later husband Rudolf Bergtel found the opportunity to stay overnight with her.

Arrest and time in prison (1942–1945)

Schleif was arrested on September 18, 1942 at her workplace, the Nordmarkplatz public library. She was brought to Gestapo headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse for interrogation and then to Plötzensee prison , where she was taken into "pre-trial detention". On February 6, 1943, the Reich Chamber Court sentenced her to eight years in prison for “preparing for high treason ”. She spent her imprisonment in Cottbus, Jauer and Leipzig-Kleinmeusdorf. There she was liberated on April 19, 1945.

Life after World War II and Death (1945–1965)

In November 1945 Lotte Schleif married Rudolf Bergtel . In 1946 she became a member of the SED . She worked at the Berlin-Neukölln City Library from 1946 to 1947 and in 1947 was commissioned to set up the Berlin Library School , which she took over as director. From 1950 she was a lecturer at the Berlin College for Libraries. From 1955 she received a disability pension.

After her death

Numerous essays and commemorations in honor of Lotte Bergtel-Schleif were written or held in the GDR after her death. So the memory of Lotte Bergtel-Schleif became part of the anti-fascist state doctrine of the GDR.

Memorial plaque and palimpsest

On June 27, 1973, a memorial plaque was attached to the city library on Baumschulenweg (Lotte-Bergtel-Bibliothek). This no longer exists today. Presumably it was stolen. A palimpsest she described has also disappeared.

Bergtel-Schleif-Preis

The Bergtel-Schleif Prize was awarded for the first time in 1975 at the Institute for Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . The award should be given to work that is characterized by the “creative application of Marxism-Leninism ” and that contribute to the “solution of key tasks in library and information science research”.

The Lotte Bergtel Library

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Lotte Bergtel Library was reorganized and renamed. It is now called the Baumschulenweg district library.

Awards

Works

  • Committee of the Association for People's Librarians. Instructions for the alphabetical catalog of the public libraries: edition for large libraries and library schools. With the assistance of Lotte Schleif. Leipzig: shopping center for libraries, 1938
  • Bergtel-Schleif, Lotte. From letters to Erwin Ackerknecht In: Communists in the struggle for a new library system. Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1977 pp. 29–37
  • Bergtel-Schleif, Lotte. Possibilities of public library work under National Socialism. In: Der Volksbibliothekar 1, 1947, pp. 193–207. Reprinted in: Lüdtke, Helga, [Hrsg.]., Passion and Education: On the History of Women's Work in Libraries. The other view: Women's studies in science & art, 2nd edition, Berlin: Orlanda-Frauenverl., 1993 pp. 115–132 ISBN 978-3-922166-79-5

literature

  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
  • Erwin Marks: Librarian and resistance fighter Lotte Bergtel-Schleif. Berlin: Institute for Library Science and Scientific Information at the Humboldt University, 1984 data set in the Southwest German Library Network .
  • Erwin Marks: Librarians in the Resistance. Laurentius - of people, books and libraries. Volume 12, 1995, pp. 72-87 ISSN  0175-8152
  • Central Institute for Libraries: Communists in the Fight for a New Library System: A Contribution to Researching Socialist Traditions in Library System in the GDR. der Librarian, Volume 3, 1977 Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut ISSN  0006-1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marks, Erwin. Librarian and resistance fighter Lotte Bergtel-Schleif, Berlin: Institute for Library Science and Scientific Information at Humboldt University, 1984 p. 4 ff
  2. ^ Fieber, Hans-Joachim, [Hrsg.]., Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945: Ein biographisches Lexikon, Berlin: Trafo-Verl., 2004, Volume 7, P. 74 f ISBN 978-3- 89626-350-6
  3. ^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( Bergtel, Rudolf ).
  4. ↑ Babendreier, Jürgen, The anti-fascist discourse: Library examples of East German memory of brown times. In: Babendreier, Jürgen 1942-, National Socialism And Librarian Memory Culture, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013 pp. 127–135, p. 135
  5. ↑ http://www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de/nc/gedenkenafeln/gedenkenafel-beispiel/tid/lotte-bergtel/
  6. ↑ Babendreier, Jürgen, The anti-fascist discourse: Library examples of East German memory of brown times. In: Babendreier, Jürgen, National Socialism And Librarian Memory Culture, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013 pp. 127–135, p. 135
  7. ↑ Erwin Marks: Librarian and resistance fighter Lotte Bergtel-Schleif , Berlin: Institute for Library Science and Scientific Information of the Humboldt University, 1984 p. 12
  8. ↑ Babendreier, Jürgen, The anti-fascist discourse: Library examples of East German memory of brown times. In: Babendreier, Jürgen, National Socialism and Librarian Memory Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013) pp. 127–135, p. 128 ISBN 978-3-447-10001-4
personal data
SURNAME Bergtel-Schleif, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleif, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, active in the resistance against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichterfelde
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1965
Place of death East Berlin