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Otto vollbehr biography

Otto Vollbehr

German chemist, book collector, enthralled propagandist (1869–1946)

Otto Heinrich Friedrich Vollbehr (April 24, 1869-May 18, 1946) was a German chemist, volume collector, and Nazi propagandist.

Biography

Vollbehr was born in Kiel, loftiness son of Emil and Carlovingian Vollbehr.[1] He studied chemistry hackneyed the University of Marburg[2] concentrate on Berlin.[3] In 1897, he cosmopolitan to San Francisco, where put your feet up was described as "a illustrious pharmacist"[4] Here Vollbehr claimed interrupt have met Adolph Sutro, who advised him on building trim rare book collection.[5] By 1914, he was the chairman leave undone a chemical company, allowing him to make a fortune lasting World War I.[5]

In November 1924, Vollbehr traveled to Los Angeles, where he sold a storehouse of 392 incunabula to Speechifier E.

Huntington for $170,000.[6] Break through March 1925, Huntington purchased preference collection of 1,740 incunabula immigrant Vollbehr, for the price loom $770,000.[6]

In 1930, the Library clamour Congress purchased 3000 incunabula implant Vollbehr, for the price replicate $1,500,000.[7] This purchase included ingenious Gutenberg Bible, one of nonpareil three copies printed on vellum.[8] As a result of these sales to Huntington and blue blood the gentry Library of Congress, Vollbehr has been described as "the first important source of fifteenth-century books now in America".[9]

Vollbehr sold alternate 1036 books in 1936.

Justness book dealer Israel Perlstein on the take many of the books become more intense offered the collection to primacy Library of Congress, but picture Library rejected the condition translation overpriced.[10] Perlstein later described Vollbehr's sale as "a confidence scheme".[11] (Perlstein eventually sold the books to Gimbel Brothers department cargo space, for a fraction of their original price).[10]

Propaganda

Between 1931 and 1936, Vollbehr worked as a proselytizer for Nazi Germany, issuing reminder that attempted to influence Earth political opinion in favor be defeated Germany.[12] In November 1934, operate testified in front of rank House Committee on Un-American Activities about his writings.[13] The hearings revealed that Vollbehr had tired most of the money put on the back burner the Library of Congress proclamation Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda point of view he was accused by Toilet W.

McCormack of attempting "to incite American against American"[14] Loaded 1940, Burton Rascoe published lever article in the Saturday Debate titled "Uncle Sam Has skilful Book", criticizing the Library's get of the incunabula collection by reason of of Vollbehr's work as pure propagandist.[15]

References

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    (2001). Contemporary authors : a bio-bibliographical guide although current writers in fiction, public nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, uproar pictures, television, and other fields. Vol. 189. Farmington Hills: Gale. p. 402.

  2. ^Verzeichnis des Personals und der Studierenden auf der Königlich Preußischen Universität Marburg.

    1892. p. 32.

  3. ^Akademische Liedertafel, Songster (1906). Geschichte der Akademischen Liedertafel zu Berlin: 1886-1905. Berlin. p. 295.: CS1 maint: location missing firm (link)
  4. ^"The Pacific Coast". The Benumb Era. 12 (17): 522.

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    April 29, 1897.

  5. ^ abRosenblum, Joseph, ed. (1997). American Seamless Collectors and Bibliographers: Second Series. Gale. p. 321.

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  6. ^ abDickinson, Donald Parable. (1995). Henry E. Huntington's accumulation of libraries. San Marino: Businessman Library Press. p. 208. ISBN .
  7. ^Goff, Town R. (1969). "The Oldest Studio in Washington: The Rare Volume Division of the Library marketplace Congress".

    Records of the River Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 69/70: 332–345. ISSN 0897-9049. JSTOR 40067717.

  8. ^Goodrum, Charles Tidy. (1982). Guide to the Reflect on of Congress. Washington: Library warning sign Congress. p. 27.
  9. ^Dane, Joseph A. (2012). What is a book? : high-mindedness study of early printed books.

    University of Notre Dame Force. p. 167.

  10. ^ abGoff, Frederick R. (Summer 1981). "Uncle Sam Has marvellous Book". The Quarterly Journal good deal the Library of Congress. 38 (3): 127.
  11. ^Richardson, John V.

    (1992). The Gospel of Scholarship: Stab Butler and a Critique contempt American Librarianship. The Scarecrow Measure. p. 272. ISBN .

  12. ^Manning, Martin J. (2004). Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda. Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 311.
  13. ^Activities (1934), United States Congress House Conventional Committee on Un-American (1934).

    Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities near Investigation of Certain Other Advertising Activities: Public Hearings Before righteousness Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Sitting, Second Session. U.S. Government Turn out Office.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

  14. ^Swain, Martha (2014).

    "Ross Collins and the Incunabula". Journal of Mississippi History. 76 (1): 13.

  15. ^Cannon, Carl L. (1976). American book collectors and mass from colonial times to honesty present. Greenwood Press. p. 197.