Norbert Cobabus

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Norbert Cobabus (* 1944 in Timmendorfer Strand ; † November 26, 2013 in Rödermark ) was a German librarian , private scholar and political activist who published numerous works on censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany , on trade unions and on numerous humanities and political topics. Cobabus was temporarily a member of the management team of the German section of the Fourth International .

Life

Norbert Cobabus initially studied medicine at the request of his parents, but dropped out after completing the Physikum and attended the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries in Cologne from 1969 to 1972, where he graduated as a qualified librarian. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009 he worked at the German National Library in Frankfurt (Main) , where he was also chairman of the staff council. A collection of materials on the subject of censorship in Germany and in libraries is available at the Amsterdam International Institute for Social History . He also worked extensively as a local researcher in his last place of residence, Rödermark .

Publications (selection)

  • Secularism and human rights: a misunderstood and controversial aspect of society , Münster: ATE 2013, ISBN 978-3-89781-225-3 .
  • Segregation - Integration - Assimilation and the phantom of the unified society , Berlin: ATE 2013, ISBN 978-3-89781-216-1 .
  • Business atmospheres: my experiences in the library world , Berlin: ATE 2012, ISBN 978-3-89781-206-2 .
  • A fairer and better world? : Possibilities and limits of normative regulations , Münster: ATE 2012, ISBN 978-3-89781-203-1 .
  • Dominance ideologies: the lubricant of power , Münster: ATE 2011, ISBN 978-3-89781-194-2 .
  • Post-war Germany: a socio-political autobiography , Berlin; Münster: ATE 2011, ISBN 978-3-89781-184-3 .
  • The Madonna von Hallgarten and her replicas: as well as her "sisters" from the Eberbach monastery and from Dromersheim , Rödermark, [Max-Planck-Str. 15]: N. Cobabus 2010.
  • Mills on the upper Rodau: Urberach and Ober-Roden , published by the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rödermark eV, Rödermark: Rödermark: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein 2010.
  • (as editor) Field names and history in the street names of Rödermark for the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rödermark eV, Rödermark: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein 2006.
  • Robert Bloch (1885–1951): an entrepreneur in Urberach , Rödermark, Max-Planck-Str. 15: N. Cobabus 2005.
  • (Editor): Citizens' rights and libraries: the erosion of free access to information and education through the economization of our society / [Congress "Information, Power, Education" - Leipzig, 2004. Akribie - Arbeitskreis Kritischer Librarians], conference paper, published for the working group Critical librarians, Nümbrecht: Kirsch 2004, ISBN 978-3-933586-36-0 .
  • From the "primal horde" to the "modern state"? : Aspects of the sociogenesis of humanity , Münster: Lit 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7381-3 .
  • The myth of the ecological knowledge of the "primitive peoples": an examination of the erroneous belief about traditional cultural communities (supposedly) living in harmony with nature , Frankfurt am Main, Gärtnerweg 7: N. Cobabus 1993

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This date of death can be found in Jakob Schäfer's obituary, the obituary in the Library and Information Forum (BuB) speaks of the beginning of December 2013 as the time of death.
personal data
SURNAME Cobabus, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Timmendorfer beach
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2013
Place of death Roedermark