Edwin Redslob

Edwin Redslob was a German art historian and art collector who served as Reichskunstwart under the Weimar Republic. Appointed in 1920, he held the position until it was abolished after the Nazi [seizure of power|Nazis came to power] in 1933.
In 1912, he was appointed to run the Angermuseum in Erfurt where he remained until 1919.
He was an art collector.
In 1945, he co-founded the Berlin daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, and then in 1948, he was one of the co-initiators in the founding of the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a professor at the university teaching Art History from 1948 to 1954. He was also rector from 1949 to 1950.