Draft:Gabriele Beger

Gabriele Beger (April 24, 1952, in East Berlin - May 6, 2024, in Hamburg) was a German librarian and jurist.

Life
Gabriele Beger was born in Berlin-Treptow. After training as a library assistant, Beger studied librarianship at the technical schools in Leipzig and Berlin until 1976. Following a second degree in law from 1984 to 1990 at Humboldt University of Berlin, she earned her doctorate in 2002 from the Faculty of Philosophy on the topic Copyright and Electronic Library Services – A Conflict of Interest.

Beger worked at the Berlin City Library starting in 1971, serving as its director from 1992 to 2005. From 1990 to 1992, she was also admitted to practice as a lawyer. From 2005 to 2018, she was the director of the State and University Library of Hamburg. Beger taught at Humboldt University of Berlin (Institute for Library and Information Science) starting in 1996 and as an Honorary Professor at the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam on "Law for Library, Information, and Documentation". Since 2007, she also taught at the University of Hamburg, Department of Computer Science, on information law and copyright law.

In 2008, she was the first German to receive the John-Jacob-Astor-Award from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation for her dedication to numerous professional societies and associations. In 2018, she was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.

Gabriele Beger is buried in Ohlsdorf Cemetery near Chapel 10.

Positions and Memberships

 * From 2002 to 2008, she served as President of the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice (DGI).


 * 2006 2009: Chairwoman of the German Library Association (dbv) and
 * Board Member of the Federal Association of Library & Information Germany (BID)
 * Chairwoman of the Copyright Committee of the German Cultural Council
 * Representative of the German Library Association in the Library Royalty Commission of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs
 * Joint Data Protection Officer for the University of Hamburg, the State and University Library of Hamburg, and the HCU, HfMT, HFBK, and TU Hamburg.

In German

 * Literature by and about Gabriele Beger in the catalogue of the German National Library
 * Obituary of the Hamburg State and University Library
 * Obituary of the German Library Association