Reinhard Fink

Reinhard Fink (born June 30, 1896 in Leipzig ; † June 8, 1968 ) was a German librarian and Germanist.

Life

Fink studied history, classical and German philology in Leipzig, interrupted by military service from 1916 to 1917. In 1921 he received his doctorate, in 1922 he passed the state examination. As early as 1920 he began his traineeship at the Leipzig University Library , which he completed in 1922 with a specialist examination in librarians. In Leipzig he rose to the position of librarian. He became a member of the NSDAP and the SA and was called in by the police to confiscate books.

In 1942 Fink became director of the Darmstadt State Library . Here he had holdings outsourced and thus also saved valuable manuscripts, incunabula and writings on regional history. On the night of September 11th to 12th, 1944, both Darmstadt library locations, u. a. Darmstadt Castle, destroyed by Royal Air Force bombing. Fink spent the attack together with other library staff and security guards in the cellars of the castle and witnessed the destruction. He retired in 1946.

Fonts (selection)

Studies on the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin , Leipzig 1922 (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1920)
(Ed.): Directory of Salomon Hirzel's Goethe collection in the Leipzig University Library , Leipzig: Hirzel 1932 (catalogs of special collections in the Leipzig University Library; 1).
The 'chaos' and its co-workers . In: Otto Glauning for his 60th birthday: Festgabe aus Wissenschaft und Bibliothek , Leipzig: Hadl 1936, pp. 43–53.
The state novels of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig . In: Journal for German Spiritual Science, 1941, pp. 44–61.

Individual evidence

↑ Cordula Reuß: The acquisition of confiscated books at the Leipzig University Library during the Nazi era and their processing. Retrieved on July 21, 2020 (German).
^ Andreas Göller: Nazi looted property in Darmstadt libraries before and after 1945. First findings and new perspectives . In: Ashkenaz . tape 26 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 233–250, here: p. 241 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fink, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German librarian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1968

[1] Cordula Reuß: The acquisition of confiscated books at the Leipzig University Library during the Nazi era and their processing. Retrieved on July 21, 2020 (German).

[2] Andreas Göller: Nazi looted property in Darmstadt libraries before and after 1945. First findings and new perspectives . In: Ashkenaz . tape 26 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 233–250, here: p. 241 .