| LC control no. | no 97065128 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mahr, Adolf, 1887-1951 |
| Variant(s) | Mahr, A. (Adolf), 1887-1951 Mahr, Adolf, 1887- |
| See also | Chief executive of: National Museum of Ireland Officer of: Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP Officer of: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei Employer: Germany. Auswärtiges Amt Officer of: Naturhistorisches Museum (Austria). Prähistorische Abteilung |
| Other standard no. | 3228481 Q89310 116680237 |
| Associated country | Austria Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
| Associated place | Krummhübel (Germany) Vienna (Austria) Linz (Austria) Poppelsdorf (Bonn, Germany) Dublin (Ireland) |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) Bonn (Germany) Ireland |
| Birth date | 1887-05-07 |
| Death date | 1951-05-27 |
| Place of birth | Trento (Italy) |
| Place of death | Bonn (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Archaeology Antiquities, Prehistoric Ireland--Antiquities Austria--Antiquities Management Archaeological museums and collections--Management National Museum of Ireland--Management Nazi propaganda World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda Radio broadcasting |
| Affiliation | Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei National Museum of Ireland Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP. Ortsgruppe Dublin |
| Profession or occupation | Archaeologists Prehistorians Executives Museum directors Foreign agents Radio broadcasters Propagandists |
| Found in | 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) OCLC, Nov. 4, 1997 (hdg.: Mahr, Adolf, 1887- ; usages: Adolf Mahr, A. Mahr) Mullins, G. Dublin Nazi no. 1, 2007: p. 213 (d. 1951) 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> OCLC, 31 August 2023 (access points: Mahr, Adolf, 1887-1951, Mahr, Adolf; publications in English and German) 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> 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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