Edwin Redslob (22 September 1884,

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– 24 January 1973,

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) was a German art historian and art collector who served as

Reichskunstwart The Reichskunstwart (German: Imperial Art Protector) was an official position within the Ministry of the Interior of the Weimar Republic, which was concerned with artistic matters and other regulatory issues. It mediated between regulators and arti ...

under the

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. Appointed in 1920, he held the position until it was abolished after the

Nazis came to power The rise to power of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919, when Hitler joined the ''German Workers' Party, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Par ...

in 1933. In 1912, he was appointed to run the

Angermuseum The Angermuseum is an art museum in Erfurt opened on 27 June 1886. Building It is housed in a building that used to house Erfurt's public weighing scales, where travelling merchants would bring their wares to be weighed for payment of the city ...

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where he remained until 1919. He was an art collector. Edwin Redslob

In 1945, he co-founded the Berlin daily newspaper ''

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'', and then in 1948, he was one of the co-initiators in the founding of the

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

. He was a professor at the university teaching

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from 1948 to 1954. He was also rector from 1949 to 1950.

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{{Authority control 1884 births 1973 deaths People from Weimar German art historians Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Der Tagesspiegel people