Walter Menn

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Walter Menn (born June 4, 1890 in Hilchenbach , † June 9, 1967 in Krombach) was a German librarian.

Life

Menn attended high school in Hagen and then studied history and classical philology in Halle , Freiburg and Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1918. From 1914 to 1916 he did military service in the First World War. In 1917 he began his library training as a trainee at the University Library of Münster , which he completed in 1919 with the specialist examination in Göttingen.

In 1920 he went to the University Library of Kiel as a library assistant , but in the same year he moved back to the University Library of Münster, where he became a library councilor in 1922. In 1932 he left Münster to become deputy director of the Greifswald University Library .

From 1946 Menn was director of the Mainz University Library . He stayed there until his retirement in 1955. He completely rebuilt the holdings and worked closely with the Mainz City Library . In 1947 he got the university to give the library a wing in its building. The library only got its own building after Menn's tenure.

Fonts

  • The history of the German Customs Union: Nassau's trade and shipping policy from the Congress of Vienna to the outcome of the South German Customs Union negotiations 1815–1827 , Greifswald: Bamberg, 1930 (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1917).
  • The Scientific Libraries of Holland: Travel Impressions and Thoughts , Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1930.
  • Richard Pietschmann. In: Martin Wehrmann , Adolf Hofmeister , Wilhelm Braun (eds.): Pomerania of the 19th and 20th centuries (= Pomeranian life pictures . Vol. 2). Saunier, Stettin 1936, pp. 388-393.
  • The first rector of the University of Mainz Jakob Welder von Siegen, Wiesbaden: Hempe, 1950 (Die Rheingauer Drucke; 1).
  • Writing and its development , Stuttgart: Koehler 1950 (Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft; 1.1).
  • together with Paul Diepgen: Universal medicine and gold making in the 17th century , Stuttgart: Thieme 1956.

literature

  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 213f.
personal data
SURNAME Menn, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilchenbach
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1967
Place of death Krombach