Wolfgang Kehr (Librarian)

Wolfgang Kehr (born July 8, 1931 in Darmstadt ) is a German librarian .

Life

Wolfgang Kehr, brother of the violinist, conductor and musicologist Günter Kehr , studied in Mainz and Marburg , where he passed the state examination in English, German and philosophy in 1955. In 1957 he received his doctorate with a thesis on John Cowper Powys . He then began training for library services in Darmstadt and Cologne, and from 1959 worked at the Frankfurt City and University Library . From September 1st, 1967 until his retirement in 1994, he was director of the Freiburg University Library . During his term of office the modernization of the library, the cataloging of the medieval manuscripts and the incunabula in the libraries of Freiburg and the surrounding area, as well as the publication of the printed catalogs, the description of the historical book holdings from the 15th to 19th centuries fell. Century in Baden-Wuerttemberg for a manual, the planning and development of the university library system with larger units and with the university library as an administration and coordination center, the foundation of the audiovisual media center of the university in the university library and the initial construction of the associated collections, the two plans for the reform and future development of the state's university libraries, the transition to digitization of all work processes and services, the planning and development of the new university library that opened in 1978. In 1973 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.

Wolfgang Kehr also worked for the German Research Foundation and the Science Council for many years. In 1991 he received the university medal and the Upper Rhine Culture Prize, and in 1997 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

literature

• Albert Raffelt (Ed.): Tradition, Organization, Innovation. 25 years of library work in Freiburg. Wolfgang Kehr on his 60th birthday . Freiburg 1991 ( digitized version ).
• Bärbel Schubel (Ed.): The Freiburg University Library. Perspectives in the 1990s. Wolfgang Kehr on his 63rd birthday and at the beginning of his retirement . Freiburg 199 ( digitized version ).