Wolf Meinhard von Staa

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Wolf Meinhard von Staa (born March 3, 1893 in Elberfeld , † April 22, 1969 in Berlin; also Wolfgang von Staa ) was a Prussian ministerial director and German publisher. Its role in connection with the exhibition Degenerate Art is significant.

Life

Von Staa studied law in Tübingen , where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania and later in Berlin and Kiel . With the legal traineeship, he volunteered for military service and was deployed mainly in the Orient and Palestine, where he met Hans von Hentig .

After being a prisoner of war, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. After working in administration in Schleswig and Koblenz, von Staa worked in the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education from 1927 and rose to Ministerial Director here within a short time. In 1933 he was appointed to the board of the Villa Romana . In 1934 he headed the art department in the Reich Ministry of Education as a ministerial director.

Worked in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Education

Von Staa used his opportunities in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Education to campaign for modern art and dissenting opinions even after the seizure of power . In 1934, von Staa intervened in favor of Hans von Hentig when the National Socialists pushed for his removal in Kiel.

As head of the art department, he tried to protect the Gallery of the Living in the Kronprinzenpalais from unauthorized access. Robert Scholz branded von Staa as early as 1934 to Alfred Rosenberg as a "boycott of Nazi cultural policy". Because of his commitment to contemporary art and because of his ongoing critical stance in connection with the exhibition Degenerate Art , von Staa and Eberhard Hanfstaengl were initially on leave and then retired. The less critical Klaus Graf von Baudissin succeeded the forced leave of absence from Staa .

publisher

He then became a partner and managing director of the Walter de Gruyter publishing house and was involved in the re-establishment of the Berlin Bibliophile Evening in 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KCL 1960, 128 , 658
  2. ↑ Hans von Hentig, Mein Krieg, Berlin, 1919, p. 74 f.
  3. ↑ Philipp Kuhn, Between Two New Beginnings: The Villa Romana from 1929 to 1959, fn. 49 ( PDF )
  4. ^ David von Mayenburg, in: Schmoeckel, Die Juristen der Universität Bonn in the "Third Reich", p. 323
  5. ^ Christian Saehrendt, "The Bridge" between statecraft and ostracism: expressionist art, p. 68.
  6. ^ Anne-Katrin Ziesak , Hans-Robert Cram, Kurt-Georg Cram, Der Verlag Walter de Gruyter 1749–1999, p. 246
  7. ^ Wieland Schmidt: On the Chronicle of the Berlin Bibliophile Evening. In: Imprimatur . A yearbook for book lovers. NF 8 (1976), pp. 41-59, here p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Staa, Wolf Meinhard from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staa, Wolfgang von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1969
Place of death Berlin