Synopsis
In 1942, the numismatist Fritz Dworschak was commissioned to set up a coin cabinet in the art museum in Linz on the Danube planned by Adolf Hitler, in which works of art collected by confiscation and purchase were to be exhibited. This collection was equipped with the numismatic objects of the monasteries and orders as well as collections from persecutes as Jews and purchases in Austria since 1938. For the scientific work, approximately 4,500 volumes of numismatic literature were collected, which were taken from the monastery libraries or obtained from the book trade. This article deals with this library history and its restitution.
