Hans Posse
- Category : 1879-births
- Type : GP
- Profile : 4/1 - Opportunistic / Investigator
- Definition : Split - Small (2,34,57)
- Incarnation Cross : JX Listening
Biography
German art historian, museum curator, and, for over three years, from June 1939 until his death, the special representative of Adolf Hitler appointed to expand the collection of paintings and other art objects which Hitler intended for the so-called "Führermuseum" in Linz, Austria. The museum, which was never built, was to be the core of a cultural centre which was part of a planned general rebuilding of the city intended to have it surpass Vienna and rival Budapest.
Posse died on 7 December 1942 of oral cancer in a clinic in Berlin at age 63. His funeral was a high state event to which Hitler invited the directors of all art museums in the Reich; Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered the eulogy.