Werner Deetjen

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Paul Otto Werner Deetjen (born April 3, 1877 at Gut Koselitz, Schwetz district (Weichsel) , West Prussia ; † May 21, 1939 in Weimar ) was a German specialist in German and librarianship .

Life

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. in 1901 in Leipzig Deetjen worked there as a private scholar before he became a private lecturer in German literary history at the Technical University of Hanover in 1905 . In 1909 he was appointed professor.

In 1916 he became director of the Grand Ducal Library (today the Duchess Anna Amalia Library ) in Weimar, in 1917 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Goethe Society and from 1917 to 1920 he was part-time Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation . In 1920 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . From 1921 until his death he was President of the German Shakespeare Society .

In 1928 Deetjen became second chairman of the German Schiller Foundation and in 1931 a board member of the Goethe Society. Deetjen belonged to the ethnically -minded, anti-Semitic fighting league for German culture . From 1935 to 1939 Deetjen was a board member of the German Dante Society and from 1937 to 1938 chairman of the executive committee of the Goethe Society.

Deetjens grave is located right behind the Weimar Princely Crypt on the honorary grave field of the historical cemetery in Weimar.

literature

  • Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 136.
  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . tape 55 , 2007, p. 109-120 .
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 108.
personal data
SURNAME Deetjen, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deetjen, Paul Otto Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Koselitz, district of Schwetz (Vistula) , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1939
Place of death Weimar