Mahr, Adolf, 1887-1951
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Fuller Name
- Adolf Maria
Variants
- Mahr, A. (Adolf), 1887-1951
- Mahr, Adolf, 1887-
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1887-05-07
Death Date
- 1951-05-27
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1933
- Affiliation End: 1945
- Organization: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1927
- Affiliation End: 1939
- Organization: National Museum of Ireland
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1934
- Affiliation End: 1939
- Organization: Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP. Ortsgruppe Dublin
Birth Place
- Trento (Italy)
Associated Locale
- Ireland
Associated Language
- English
Associated Language
- German
Associated Language
- Irish
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Field of Activity
(lcsh) Archaeological museums and collections--Management
(lcsh) National Museum of Ireland--Management
Occupation
Propagandists
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Earlier Established Forms
- Mahr, Adolf, 1887-
Sources
- found: Adolf Mahr's excavations of an early Bronze Age cemetery at Keenoge, County Meath, 1997:p. 1 (Dr. Adolf Mahr of the National Museum of Ireland; director, 1927-1939; at outbreak of Second World War in September 1939, he returned to Germany and after the war did not come back to Ireland; death in 1951)
- found: OCLC, Nov. 4, 1997(hdg.: Mahr, Adolf, 1887- ; usages: Adolf Mahr, A. Mahr)
- found: Mullins, G. Dublin Nazi no. 1, 2007:p. 213 (d. 1951)
- found: VIAF, 24 August 2023(authorized access points in cluster: Mahr, Adolf, 1887-1951, Mahr, Adolf, Mahr, Adolf, 1887- , Mahr, Adolf, n. 1887, Adolf Mahr österreichischer Archäologe in Irland; später nationalsozialistischer Rundfunk-Propagandist, Mahr, Adolf Maria, archeoloog, 1887-1951; VIAF ID: 3228481 (Personal)) - http://viaf.org/viaf/3228481
- found: OCLC, 31 August 2023(access points: Mahr, Adolf, 1887-1951, Mahr, Adolf; publications in English and German)
- found: Wikipedia, 24 August 2023(Adolf Mahr (7 May 1887-27 May 1951); Austrian archaeologist; served as director of National Museum of Ireland in Dublin in 1930s, credited with advancing work of the museum substantially; through his leadership of Dublin Nazi chapter, and later broadcasting propaganda from Germany, he became highly controversial figure in 20th-century Irish history and was not allowed to return to his job after Second World War; born in Trent, Tyrol, in southern reaches of Habsburg Empire; served in Austrian Army in 1906, attaining rank of lieutenant, then studied geography and prehistory at University of Vienna; went to work for a museum in Linz, then Natural History and Prehistoric Museum of Vienna, where rose to ranks of curator and deputy director of a section; excavation work included early exploration of the salt mine and Iron Age Celtic cemetery at Hallstatt; arrived in Ireland in 1927 to work as Senior Keeper of (Irish) Antiquities in National Museum of Ireland in Dublin; In 1934 Eamon de Valera appointed Mahr as the museum director; joined Nazi Party 1933, became the Local Group Leader (Ortsgruppenleiter) of the official Nazi Party in Ireland (Auslandsorganisation, NSDAP-AO); visit to Berlin and Austria when war broke out September 1939, kept in Germany, where stayed through the war; died in Bonn) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Mahr
- found: Wikipedia, die freie Enzyklopädie, 24 August 2023(Adolf Mahr; Adolf Maria Mahr; Dr. Phil.; Austrian archaeologist, in 1930s director of Irisches Nationalmuseum; linguistically gifted scholar (Dutch, Serbian, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek, later English); 1 April 1933, joined NSDAP; in 1934, when a cell of NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation was founded in Ireland, he was its first head and was very active; in 1937, was selected as president of British Prehistoric Society; during war, in Germany, weekly dispatches for Auswärtigen Amt für ausländisches Rundfunkwesen in Irish language; until 1944, leader of Ru-9, sending political dispatches and antisemitic propaganda to English-speaking countries; family house in Berlin bombed out in 1943; 1942/43, part-time teaching position in archaeology at Universität Bonn; spring 1943, his workplace was transferred to Krummhübel in Schlesien; imprisoned after war, after release obtained the possibility of working without pay at Bonner Museum, where he slept behind the shelves in his office; died May 1951, buried in Bonn in Poppelsdorfer Friedhof) - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Mahr
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Change Notes
- 1997-11-05: new
- 2023-09-01: revised
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