| Code | DS/UK/1359 |
| Dates | 06/02/1879-07/12/1942 |
| Person Name | Posse; Hans (06/02/1879-07/12/1942); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Posse |
| Forenames | Hans |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian; assistant at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin (since 1903); assistant at the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florence; research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome; Director of the Picture Gallery in Dresden (1910-1938); "Sonderbeauftragter des Führers" charged by Adolf Hitler with building the so-called Führermuseum in Linz (since 1939). |
| History | Studied art history, archaeology and history at the universities of Marburg and Vienna (PhD 1903). |
| Source | Schwarz, Birgit, Hitlers Sonderbeauftragter Hans Posse, in: Lühr, Hans-Peter, Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst" und der Beginn der NS-Kulturbarbarei in Dresden, (Dresdner Hefte 22, 1 [Nr. 77]), Dresden: Dresdner Geschichtsverein e. V., 2004, pp. 77–85. |
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