Werner Rust

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Werner Rust (born July 9, 1893 in Berlin , † June 21, 1977 in Braunschweig ) was a German librarian . Among other things, he worked as a department head and deputy director in the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig .

Life

Werner Rust studied philology, history and philosophy in Berlin and Greifswald . In 1917 he received his doctorate from the University of Greifswald with the work "joy and sorrow in Ulrich von Lichtenstein's wife Service". During the First World War , he entered the army as a volunteer in 1914. After three months he was badly wounded and in 1917 dismissed as permanently unfit for war. In 1918 Rust worked as a trainee at the Greifswald University Library and in 1919 as an assessor at the Göttingen University Library . After successfully completing his specialist examination in librarians, he was employed as an assistant librarian in Greifswald. In 1923 he moved to the Berlin University Library .

Rust was a member of the DNVP from 1918 to 1928, and in September 1932 he joined the NSDAP . In the local group in Berlin-Dahlem, he briefly held the office of cell and propaganda guard. In March 1933 he became chairman of the newly established cell of the “National Socialist Working Group of Civil Servants and Employees” in the Berlin University Library. In April 1933, Rust ensured that a colleague, the Jewish library councilor Heinrich Eliakim Loewe, was dismissed in August 1933 by means of a denunciation.

On April 1, 1934, Rust, an experienced librarian, experienced administrative officer and staunch National Socialist, succeeded Otto Erich Ebert , who was dismissed in 1933, and was appointed deputy director and personnel officer of the Deutsche Bücherei. He then took care of the politically relevant issues and intensively represented the interests of the Deutsche Bücherei. From April 1934, Rust headed the work on the bibliographical overview of Nazi literature. In addition, the senior librarian was appointed a member of the Reich Advisory Board for Library Matters in 1936. He was a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Documentation, founded in 1941 . From 1942 he was a member of the committee for the examinations of the upper (middle) librarianship at the Leipzig University Library , which examined the candidates for their knowledge of national politics.

After the Second World War , Rust was released in July 1945 because of his relatively early membership in the NSDAP. In the early 1950s he worked on bibliographical compilations on behalf of government agencies in the GDR , for which he still used the Deutsche Bücherei as a privileged permanent guest in 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources by Karl Goedeke , Volume 18: Register I-III (edited by Herbert Jacob), 2nd edition, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 55.
  2. ↑ a b c d Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 590.
  3. ^ Alwin Müller-Jerina: Fates of Jewish VDB members in the Third Reich . In: Association of German Librarians 1900 - 2000: Festschrift / ed. by Engelbert Plassmann and Ludger Syré . Wiesbaden 2000, Harrassowitz, ISBN 3-447-04247-8 , p. 110.
  4. ↑ Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 1009.
  5. ↑ Sören Flachowsky: " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 956.
  6. ^ Christian Rau: "National Library in the Divided Land". The German Library 1945–1990. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3199-0 , p. 123.

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personal data
SURNAME Rust, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1977
Place of death Braunschweig