Rudolf Hoecker
Rudolf Hoecker (born February 4, 1889 in Buenos Aires , † May 1, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German librarian .
Life
Rudolf Hoecker was a son of the wholesale merchant Max Hoecker. He first attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover and in 1908 he graduated from the Gymnasium in Basel . He then studied art history in Basel, Berlin and Halle an der Saale . In 1914 he received his doctorate in Basel with the work “The didactic poem of Karel van Mander ”. From 1919 to 1921 he studied economics at the University of Berlin.
From 1916 Hoecker worked in the Prussian civil service, initially as a volunteer at the royal library, from 1923 as a library councilor at the Prussian State Library . In 1930 he took over the position of director of the Berlin University Library . In 1933 he was dismissed from this office on the basis of Section 5 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service . In 1936 he was transferred to the library of the TH Berlin . There he was - demoted to the library council - active in the information center for technical literature.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Hoecker temporarily headed the three large Berlin libraries (university library, library of the TH Berlin, former Prussian state library). In 1946 he became chief director of the public-academic library, later the German State Library in East Berlin. He was released in 1950 and worked as a library in western Berlin until his retirement in 1954.
Fonts (selection)
- The didactic poem of Karel van Mander. Text, translation and commentary. In addition to an appendix on Mander's historical construction and art theory . Dordrecht 1916.
- Spanish librarianship. An attempt at a Bibliotheco bibliography . Linz 1928, OCLC 122936697 .
- The University Library in Berlin. For its 100th anniversary 1831–1931 on February 20, 1931 . Berlin 1931, OCLC 315811213 .
literature
- Friedhilde Krause : “Hoecker goes for a walk too!” A study of the life and activities of the library director Dr. Rudolf Hoecker. Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-931614-09-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Hoecker in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hoecker, Rudolf. In: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft: the handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930.
- ↑ a b Hoecker, Rudolf. In: Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 . Klostermann, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoecker, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian, general director of the German State Library in East Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1976 |
| Place of death | Berlin |