Werner Kudlich

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Werner Kudlich (born November 19, 1903 in Opava , Austria-Hungary ; died April 13, 1945 in Kulmbach ) was a Sudeten German-Czechoslovak art historian and director of the Silesian State Museum in Opava .

Act

Kudlich was the son of the lawyer Walther Kudlich (1857-1930), from 1908 to 1919 mayor of Opava, and his wife Sofia, the daughter of a notary. His older brother Reinhard Kudlich (1902-1943) was a member of the Sudeten German Party (SdP) and later of the NSDAP and from 1938 to 1943 mayor of Troppau.

After elementary school, Kudlich attended high school in Opava and then studied art history , German and philosophy at the universities in Munich and Prague. In 1928 he received his doctorate from the German University in Prague . He then took up a position at the Silesian State Museum and took care of the archaeological, historical and artistic collections. After Edmund Wilhelm Braun's retirement in 1935, Kudlich became scientific director of the institute and wrote articles for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . After the occupation of the area by the National Socialists in 1938, he remained director of the museum, which was renamed the “Reichsgaumuseum”, and in 1939 he was appointed special commissioner for securing art and cultural assets and in 1942 honorary commissioner for art affairs. As such, he took part in a special SS command led by Kajetan Mühlmann , which was responsible for looting the art collections in western Poland, especially the city of Krakow , and parts of the Soviet Union . The stolen works of art were transferred to the Reich territory. According to Josef Gebauer, he was later classified as a Nazi war criminal for his complicity. He came in April 1944 as a Unterscharfuhrer from the Estonian Voluntary Division to the SS Main Office, where he was editor of the magazine "Das Bild". He fell when the Americans marched into the city of Kulmbach.

He was married and lived with his wife Gretl (née Fuchs) in his father's house in Troppau. The couple had several children, including Jörg Kudlich .

Fonts (selection)

  • Two unknown works by Pierino da Vinci. In: Sborník k šedesátým narozeninám EW Brauna. Augsburg 1930, pp. 90-92.
  • Three representations of the death of Mariae from Oppaland. A contribution to the Gothic sculpture of Silesia . In: Heimat und Volk. Research contributions on Sudeten German history . Rohrer, Brümm / Prague / Leipzig / Vienna 1937, OCLC 1074056420 , p. 221-245 .
  • A Sudeten German Museum (to develop the Sudeten German museum system). In: People at work. Issue 7, 1938, pp. 255-258.

literature

  • Günther Haase: Art theft and art protection . Volume I: A Documentation . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8975-4 , Artworks in the East, p. 202 ff . ( books.google.de - excerpt).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Fendl, Tilman Kasten, Werner Mezger: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore. Focus: Off to overseas! German emigration from Eastern Europe . Waxmann, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-7820-6 , pp. 112 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Zemský archive v Opavě - Kudlich Werner. Badatelna.eu, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Josef Gebauer: Kudlich Werner. Statutární město Opava - Statutární město Opava, July 24, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2019 (Czech): "Za tuto činnost se jeho jméno octlo v seznamu nacistických kulturních válečných zločinců."
  4. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher: The ideological training in the SS 1933-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76644-1 , p. 151.
  5. ^ Ministerialrat Jörg Kudlich, detailed curriculum vitae. sdj-geschichte.de, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kudlich, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1945
Place of death Kulmbach