Rudolf Reuter (librarian)

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Josef Rudolf Reuter (born July 29, 1891 in Essen , † January 11, 1977 in Cologne ) was a German librarian , adult educator and university professor .

Life

In 1913 Reuter submitted a historical dissertation, with which he received his doctorate in 1914 at the University of Bonn . At first he worked as a high school teacher in the school service. In 1923 he took over the chairmanship of the newly founded Prussian Volksbüchereivereinigung. On August 1, 1924, he became director of the public libraries in Cologne (today: Cologne City Library ). Under his direction, the West German Volksbüchereischule was opened there on May 15, 1928 as a technical school for librarians. The school was closed on October 1, 1944. After 1945 he headed the new librarian training institute in Cologne (today: TH Köln ). From 1956 he was a member of the Presidium of the Federation of Theater Communities based in Bonn. From 1957 he had continuous teaching positions at the University of Cologne on the theory of adult education. Reuter took part in meetings of the Hohenrodter Bund in 1926 and 1927 and in meetings of the Wolfram Bund in 1925 and 1926.

In 1920 Reuter married Maria Agnes Koch in Cologne. He died in 1977 at the age of 85 and was buried in his wife's family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The struggle for the imperial status of the cities at the Augsburg Reichstag 1582: Depicted on the basis of the files of the imperial cities of Cologne, Augsburg and Strasbourg, with special consideration of the attitude of Cologne , inaugural dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat in Bonn 1916
  • The priestess. Tragedy in 4 Acts , Cologne, Leipzig: Salm, 1920
  • Ferdinand Roese (1815-1859), a forgotten political philosopher and champion of the League of Nations idea , in: Festgabe, Friedrich von Bezold presented on the 70th birthday of his students, colleagues and friends , Bonn: K. Schroeder / Leipzig: E. Gräfe 1921, Pp. 290-303
  • Memorandum on the reorganization of the Cologne technical school , undated (1926)
  • The free public education system since 1918 , in: The güldne shrine. A yearbook for good readers and kind book advisors for the year 1928 , Hamburg: Deutsche Dichter-Gedächtnis-Stiftung 1928, pp. 120-139
  • Literature, people, youth , Cologne: Verlag der Westdeutsche Blätter für Büchereberatung, 1930
  • Notzeit und Büchereiarbeit , Cologne: Verlag der Westdeutsche Blätter für Büchereberatung, 1931
  • Small praise from the library. Poems , self-published in 1941
  • Book and People , 1951
  • Adult education: books and magazine articles. A selected bibliography with special consideration of the years 1918–1933 , Cologne: Verlag Der Löwe, Reykers, 1958
  • Idea and reality of adult education: essays, lectures and memoranda, especially on the library system , Cologne: Verlag Der Löwe, Reykers, 1960

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne, deaths, 1977, document 390.
  2. ↑ a b Pöggeler, Franz (1961): Zum Geleit , in: Pöggeler, Franz; Langenfeld, Ludwin; Welzel, Gotthard (ed.) (1961): In the service of adult education. Commemoration for Rudolf Reuter on the completion of his 70th year of life on July 29, 1961. Osnabrück: A. Fromm, p. 8 f.
  3. ^ Maria Steinhoff (1961): Rudolf Reuter and the Westdeutsche Volksbüchereischule , in: Pöggeler, Franz; Langenfeld, Ludwin; Welzel, Gotthard (ed.) (1961): In the service of adult education. Commemoration for Rudolf Reuter on the completion of his 70th year of life on July 29, 1961. Osnabrück: A. Fromm, p. 159 ff.
  4. ^ Pöggeler, Franz; Langenfeld, Ludwin; Welzel, Gotthard (ed.) (1961): In the service of adult education. Commemoration for Rudolf Reuter on the completion of his 70th year on July 29, 1961. Osnabrück: A. Fromm, p. 340
  5. ^ Pöggeler, Franz; Langenfeld, Ludwin; Welzel, Gotthard (ed.) (1961): In the service of adult education. Commemoration for Rudolf Reuter on the completion of his 70th year of life on July 29, 1961. Osnabrück: A. Fromm, p. 341
  6. ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 30, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuter, Josef Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1977
Place of death Cologne