Hans Beilhack, was a German librarian.
On November 10, 1916 Franz Kafka read In the Penal Colony at the Kunstsalon of Hans Goltz in Munich, on November 12, 1916 a recension of Beilhack was published in the Münchner Zeitung.
In 1936 due to a satirical contribution published in Der Querschnitt the Nazi regime ordered Schreibverbot (banned from writing).
In 1945 he became Literature consultant to the Library of Congress Mission to Europe.