Wolfgang Dittrich (Librarian)

Wolfgang Dittrich (born May 23, 1938 in Breslau ) is a German librarian , former director of the Lower Saxony State Library and chairman of the Association of German Librarians .

Life

Born in 1938 in Breslau, Wolfgang Dittrich attended elementary and high school in Grevesmühlen in Mecklenburg, moved to Berlin in 1956 and studied history and German at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn from 1958 to 1966 . In 1967 he joined the library service, initially at the Berlin State Library of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . In 1971 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1979 Dittrich worked as the deputy head of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel as an employee of Paul Raabe and head of the library department, before he took over the management of the Lower Saxony State Library in Hanover from 1986 to 2002 .

During the 16 years of his tenure in Hanover, Wolfgang Dittrich, together with his deputies Hinrich Vollers and Eberhard Bartsch, “among other things, completed the expansion of the six humanities and social science departmental libraries at the University of Hanover ,” fully equipped and integrated the state library with EDP ​​systems that were state-of-the- art at the time the data sets and their availability "in the Lower Saxony network system". At the same time, Dittrich increased the library holdings by half a million units, while at the same time the loan volume multiplied. During his tenure as director of the Lower Saxony State Library, Wolfgang Dittrich initiated numerous exhibitions and lectures and presented the contents of the Leibniz Archives, a special department of the house.

Wolfgang Dittrich was a board member of the Lower Saxony State Association of the German Library Association, he was a member of the Lower Saxony Advisory Board for Library Affairs and was elected chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB) from 1999–2001. For many years he headed the working group of regional libraries and worked for nine years on the DBI commission for "Manuscripts and the Old Book". He was also a member of a number of literary societies.

Wolfgang Dittrich was valued for his humor and "his communicative nature". The passionate book collector is a member of the Hanoverian Masonic lodge Die Ceder and archived "an important collection of Masonic literature in the State Library".

Fonts (selection)

• Narrator and reader in CM Wieland's Versepik. Berlin 1974. (235 pages) [also: Berlin, Free University, Department of German Studies, dissertation of May 6, 1971]
• Problems of organizing and coding biographical literature in subject catalogs . Homework submitted to the librarian training institute of North Rhine-Westphalia for examination for the higher service at academic libraries in autumn 1969. - [Typescript]. Cologne, 1969 (V, 57 pp.)
• The regional libraries today and tomorrow. In: 77th German Librarianship in Augsburg 1987. Speeches and lectures. Frankfurt am Main 1988 (Journal for Libraries and Bibliography, Special Issue 46), pp. 71–84.
• Outdoor cultural work - meaning and possibilities in libraries. In: Libraries with regional functions. Positioning and development opportunities. Speeches and colloquium on the occasion of the farewell to Dr. Gerhard Römer on September 20 and 21, 1993, Ed .: Rüdiger Schmidt. Karlsruhe 1994 (Lectures / Badische Landesbibliothek 40), pp. 67–83.
• Libraries with deposit copies in Germany , ed. by the Commission of the DBI for Use and Information and the Conference of Central Catalogs, compiled by Wolfgang Dittrich. Berlin: German Library Institute, 1995. (97 pages) ISBN 3-87068-478-X
• Tasks and importance of regional libraries today. In: De officio bibliothecarii. Contributions to library practice. Dedicated to Hans Limburg on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Edited by Gernot Gabel u. a. Cologne 1998, pp. 100-115.
• Aspects of Lessing Reception in German Freemasonry. In: Quatuor Coronati. Yearbook for Freemason Research 41 (2004), pp. 149–168.
• The “Association of German Freemasons”, goals, tendencies, developments. In: Quatuor Coronati. Yearbook for Freemason Research 42 (2005), pp. 51–65.
• German Freemasonry and the First World War. In: Quatuor Coronati: Jahrbuch für Freemaurerforschung 44 (2007), pp. 57-75.
• Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School ?. History and current work of the Freemasons in Hanover . Accompanying volume for an exhibition in the Historical Museum Hanover September 5, 2012 - January 6, 2013. Edited by Siegfried Schildmacher. [Text ed. Wolfgang Dittrich]. Hanover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library 2012. ´ (103 p.: Numerous illustrations, graph. Darst.) ISBN 978-3-943922-01-1
• Wilhelm Raabe Bibliography. Annually in: Yearbook of the Raabe Society 1987–2015.

Also numerous articles in Freemason magazines.

literature

• rmh: Dr. Wolfgang Dittrich: An old school librarian says goodbye . In: Mbmagazin. Bulletin of the libraries in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. GBV currently . Edited by the Association of Libraries in Lower Saxony (ABN) and the Association of Libraries in Saxony-Anhalt, Hanover: Office of the Lower Saxony State Association in the DBV, Lower Saxony State Library, June 2002 edition; Inscription on the side bit-online.de magazine B.ITonline / Journal of Library, Information and Technology , last accessed on December 10, 2014.
• Jorunn Wissmann ( Ed .), Georg Ruppelt , Thomas Fuchs (Ed.): Wolfgang Dittrich (1986–2002) . In this: treasures, information, encounters. The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library introduces itself (= Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library. Writings , Volume 3). CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln 2007, ISBN 978-3-8271-8903-5 and ISBN 3-8271-8903-9 , p. 89.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jorunn Wissmann (ed.), Georg Ruppelt, Thomas Fuchs (edit.): Wolfgang Dittrich ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} rmh: Dr. Wolfgang Dittrich: An old school librarian ... (see literature)