Heigl, Paul

Paul Heigl ( him. Paul Heigl ; April 29, 1887 , Marburg an der Drau - April 8, 1945 , Vienna ) - Austrian librarian.

He spent his childhood and youth in Innsbruck , Trento and Trieste . Graduated from the University of Graz , in 1910 , he defended his thesis "Diplomatic relations between Milan and Germany during the reign of Frederick III " ( Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Miens und Deutschland wriedre Regierungszeit Friedrichs III. ). He worked as an archivist at the Institute for the Study of Austrian History at the University of Vienna . During the First World War he served in the Austro-Hungarian army, fought in Serbia and Italy. After the war, he worked in the library of the University of Vienna.

In 1927 he published a separate publication, under the pseudonym of Friedrich Herget , the anti-Semitic pamphlet “From the workshop of Freemasons and Jews of post-war Austria” ( German: Aus der Werkstatt der Freimaurer und Juden im Oesterreich der Nachkriegszeit ). In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party . For this reason, in 1935 he was forced to emigrate from Austria to the Third Reich, worked in the library of the University of Greifswald , then in the Prussian State Library .

After the Anschluss, Heigl returned to Vienna and in 1938 was appointed General Director of the Austrian National Library . He was engaged in the nationalization of her work: the dismissal of Jewish employees, the exclusion of Jews from among the readers, and the holding of various ideological events. Under the control of Haigl, replenishment of the library’s funds with books and other materials confiscated from Jews took place; in particular, Heigl obtained confiscation in favor of the library of the archive of the Albanian Norbert Yokl , bequeathed to Albania. In 1941 , he consulted in the same direction libraries in Zagreb and Belgrade . In addition to the actual library work, Heigl was a member of the Department for the Study of the Jewish Question at the Berlin Institute for the History of New Germany.

He killed himself, seeing the inevitable collapse of the Nazi regime.