Gustav Abb

Gustav Abb ( born February 23, 1886 in Berlin, † April 28, 1945 ) was a German librarian.

Life

Fig was the son of the Privy Council Government Wilhelm fig in the imperial civil Cabinet. He was phil 1911 with a dissertation about the monastery Chorin Dr.. doctorate. From 1921 to 1925 he was Chairman of the Advisory Board for Library Prussian affairs. In 1923 he was the Prussian State Library Council Library.

After the " seizure of power" by the Nazis in 1933, he joined the NSDAP. In 1935, he was Director of the University Library in Berlin.

From 1937 he was chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB ). In the year after the Anschluss he declared on 30 May 1939 in the opening speech at the annual meeting of the VDB in Graz, that "there is no [ ... ] given spiritual revolution in the world history " would, " the clearer the power of books and libraries recognized and provided extensive in their service had as Nazism. " In the subsequent homage telegram to Hitler he praised it as "creator and Mehrer of the German Reich " and vowed the loyalty of the librarians.

During the Second World War, fig, which was additionally SS -Sturmbannführer was established in July 1940 as head of the management of libraries in occupied Poland, the General Government. After the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he was Commissioner for the backup of libraries and support of the Good Book in the eastern area of ​​operations in the Operations Staff Reich Leader Rosenberg. This office meant in plain text nothing more than the organization of art theft from libraries and archives.

After the war, his writing The scientific librarian ( teaching aids headquarters of the DAF, Berlin 1941) was set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.

Writings

  • History of the monastery Chorin Berlin: Warneck 1911 ( ersch as Inaug. - Diss Berlin 1911. )
  • The former Franciscan library in Brandenburg aH A contribution to the history of Brandenburg's book trade in the Middle Ages. In: Zentralblatt für librarianship. 39th, 11th and 12th Issue, 1922, pp. 475-499.
  • Schleiermacher's Regulations for the Royal Library in Berlin from 1813 and its antecedents. Breslau, Berlin, 1926.
  • ( with Gottfried Wentz ): The Diocese of Brandenburg. de Gruyter, Berlin 1929 ( Germania sacra, Division 1, Vol 1).
  • The German State Library in Krakow. In: The General Government. Volume 1, Episode 7 /8, 1941, p 42-48.
287095
de