Otto Behm

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Otto Friedrich Ludwig Behm (born August 14, 1884 in Cologne , † after 1935) was a German librarian .

Life

He was the son of the bank director and commercial expert Rudolf Behm and his wife, the painter Helene nee Schmitz . After attending the humanistic grammar school, Otto Behm studied at the University of Bonn and then moved to Paris . He studied humanities and Auxiliary Historical Sciences and a doctorate in medieval history for Dr. phil. He got his first job in 1911 as an assistant librarian at the Cologne Commercial College . In 1912 Otto Behm joined his father in Mannheim as secretary. During the First World War he followed the call to the library of the Cologne University of Commerce in 1917. In the following year he was appointed director of the library and the economic archive of the University of Commerce in Mannheim. At the same time he became part-time director of the library of the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce. At the end of the 1920s personal conflicts intensified with one of his employees, Lilly Lichtenthaeler, who had been acting head of the library before him. Since this resulted in deficiencies in the library administration, Professor Schuster was appointed to supervise Otto Behm in 1929. In 1932, in the year of the 25th anniversary of the commercial school library, it merged with the Mannheim Palace Library, placing Otto Behm subordinate to the director of this library, Wilhelm Fraenger , who was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933. On October 1, 1932, Otto Behm had already taken early retirement at the age of 48 with 66% of his salary. His colleague Lilly Lichtenthaeler took over the library management after the end of the Second World War.

In his free time he also worked as a fiction writer from 1910, and wrote several novels and short stories about cultural history.

Fonts (selection)

  • The oldest Clevish chronicles and their relationship to one another: Wisseler Grafenreihe, Anonymi Chronicon and Gert von der Schüren; a contribution to the Lower Rhine territorial history , Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1908.
  • Mannheim's connection to the German libraries . In: New Badische Landeszeitung Mannheim from December 22, 1925.
  • Library anniversary. Twenty-five years as a commercial college library . In: Mannheimer Tagblatt of February 10, 1932.
  • The reorganization of the public library system . In: Badische Landeszeitung from March 9, 1932.

family

Otto Behm had been married since 1921 to Stefanie nee Cierpka (* 1899), who in 1933 presented the work The Optimistic Weltanschauung in German thought poetry of the Enlightenment period at the University of Heidelberg .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anniversary of a library. Twenty-five years of the commercial college library , in: Mannheimer Tagblatt of February 10, 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Behm, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behm, Otto Friedrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH after 1935