Karl Borromeo Glock

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Karl Borromäus Glock (born January 27, 1905 in Nuremberg , † November 1, 1985 in Heroldsberg ) was a German publisher, writer and castle owner who u. a. promoted Christian resistance against National Socialism .

Karl-Borromäus Glock with Hortense von Gelmini , Nuremberg 1983

Life

Karl Borromäus Glock was born as the son of the civil servant Michael Glock and his wife Margarethe in Nuremberg (corner of Preisslerstrasse and Fürther Strasse) on the "Kaisergeburtstag". His brother Friedrich died as a child. His paternal ancestors were bell-makers and came from Neualbenreuth , his maternal ancestors were farmers from Schnaittenbach . In 1912 Glock moved with his parents to the Amtmannshaus of Nuremberg Castle , where he met King Ludwig III. (Bavaria) had to hand over a bouquet of flowers during one of his visits. He attended secondary school in Nuremberg until 1921 and then completed an apprenticeship there. In 1921 the family moved to Feldgasse 38, a house where Glock later founded his company. In his youth, Glock was shaped by the encounter with the Jesuit father Klöppel, the work of John Henry Newman and the youth movement ( Bund New Germany ).

Work as a bookseller and publisher

The bookroom and bookstore

As a penniless student - he studied at the Nuremberg Commercial College and was a member of the Ostmark Nürnberg student union in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) - he opened a bookstore in his father's house, from which the later publishing house developed. At the same time, he completed a traineeship in a Nuremberg printing and publishing house. His diploma thesis was entitled: "The book as a legal object - in a legal, economic and social relationship". After graduating, he rented a bookstore in Katharinengasse Nuremberg, which his partner Viktor Lutz joined in 1926, with whom he started book production and worked together until 1966. In 1928 Glock married his first wife Mathilde (Tilla) Braun in Kassel, with whom she was married for 48 years until her death in 1970 and with whom he had a son Peter (* 1931) and a daughter Veronika (* 1935) who, like hers Mother, later worked in his publishing house. After the death of his first wife, Glock married his assistant Elisabeth.

The publishing house Glock and Lutz in the “Third Reich” and in the Second World War

In 1926, Glock founded a publishing house with his friend Viktor Lutz in Feldgasse in Nuremberg and switched to book production, initially with Glock himself traveling as a representative of the publishing house. Even then, commercial interests were not in the foreground, but the publishing house had a Christian-humanist profile from the start, which it maintained even in difficult times. As his "professional credo", Glock called "decision and distinction as well as language as a dialogue between the creatures". He saw the Christian faith as "absolutely constitutive for poetry". Glock organized lectures, excursions and prints with Leo Weismantel , Leo Flach, Emmy Hennings , Reinhard Sorge's widow , Franz Herwig , Peter Dörfler , Jon Svensson , Friedrich Schnack , Joseph Georg Oberkofler , Dolores Viesèr , Kuno Brombacher, Carl Sonnenschein and Hermann Muckermann . In 1931, at the 71st German Catholic Convention in Nuremberg, Glock met Carl Muth , in whose footsteps he gradually followed. Following the example of his magazine Hochland (magazine) , Glock brought out the magazine "Buch und Leben" (later "Reflection"), in which attacks on the Nazi magazines Der Stürmer and Völkischer Beobachter were printed, which led to the ban on printing and the Magazine led. Because Glock continued to run the magazine under the cover name "Basic Catalog of German Literature", he was sentenced to prison in 1935, which he did not have to serve because of an amnesty . In the basement of his house, Glock secretly printed and distributed z. E.g. the sonnets by Reinhold Schneider , which he sent to the Eastern Front through the wife of General Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs , who was a friend of Glock . He gave lectures in Nuremberg with opponents of the regime, Alfred Delp and Theodor Steinbüchel . In 1939 Glock was drafted into the Wehrmacht and - after an exercise in Berlin - shipped to Norway, where his right lower leg was smashed by a torpedo hit near the Skagerrak . After life-threatening complications in the hospital, Glock was able to continue his work in Nuremberg, but Lutz was drafted. In 1943, Glock had to take command of a so-called group rapid command (from so-called Hitler Youth ) for fire-fighting and rescue missions after air raids. Both publishing locations were almost completely destroyed by bombs, Glock and his family, who had been brought to safety near Passau, survived.

The Glock und Lutz publishing house after the Second World War

After the Second World War, the publishing house had to be rebuilt "from scratch" without capital. First, Glock gave away the book store that had been spared. In 1945 he received a publishing license from the American occupation forces and developed his wide-ranging publishing program. He began with inexpensive brochures, the "Görres-Lesebogen", 70 titles published in millions, and the translation of an American catechism. He saw his task z. B. in the "Protest against forgetfulness" by releasing classics of Christian literature such as Leon Bloy , John Henry Newman (with the editors Heinrich Fries and Werner Becker ), Ludwig Derleth , Hermann Grimm, Gabriel Marcel , Reinhard Johannes Sorge , Miguel de Unamuno , Rudolf von Ihering , also reissued the pre-war authors. He founded his publishing magazine early on. Above all, he developed wide-ranging book series and, through invitations to societies that he founded in Nuremberg (such as the Willibald Pirckheimer Board of Trustees), won other authors across Europe, such as B. Jean-Yves Calvez , Reinhold Schneider, Hermann Muckermann , Friedrich Muckermann , Theodor Steinbüchel , Peter Dörfler , Galina Djuragin (Alexandra Rachmanowa), Albrecht Goes , Heimito von Doderer , Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster , Erich Przywara , Friedrich Heer , Herbert Meier-Zurich , Josef Mühlberger , Walter Dirks , Ida Friederike Görres , Clemens Münster, Otto Heuschele , Oswalt von Nostitz and many others whom Glock outlined at the end of his life in his book Eighty Years - Encounters with a Hundred Well-Known Contemporaries , among them z. B. the politicians Theodor Heuss , Ludwig Erhard , Gustav Heinemann , Karl Carstens , Hermann Mathias Görgen , and many other personalities close to Christian literature such as e. B. Aloys Wenzl , Otmar Emminger and Carl Orff . Glock saw himself in the German publishing landscape as a “loner” and his publishing house as a “risk”. Until the end of his life he tried to enforce Christian authors like Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner and Hortense von Gelmini in an increasingly difficult publishing environment. His widow, Elisabeth Glock, continued to run the publishing house for a short time after Glock's death and then sold it to Regio-Verlag.

The ambitious, committed publishing program received multiple praise.

"In our time of clever literary business people who produce books like other washing machines, Glock is one of those publishers who are unfortunately dying out and whose job is also a calling."

- The New Book Service, Vienna

"What this publisher has achieved cannot be dispensed with."

- Reinhold Schneider

"Finally a publisher again that dares to write books like this in the middle of the age of the outcast regardless of loss."

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"The certainty that the names of its authors are not only domestic, but mostly European, contributes to the domestic and international success of this publishing house, as does the resolute partnership of the authors in the magazine" Die Besinnung "."

- Basler Volksblatt

“The Glock und Lutz-Verlag has moved up to the front row of the German publishers. He represents a firm ideological bond. "

- Saarland radio

Book series, magazines and cultural engagement

Characteristic of Glock and Lutz's publishing program were book series such as v. a .:

  • Library of our age (classics of the 19th and 20th centuries)
  • Cardinal Newman Studies
  • German regional studies
  • Culture of nations
  • Nuremberg enthusiast issues

Glock was the publisher and editor of the cultural magazine Contemplation , which represented his line , and the publishing magazine Kurier vom Gelben Schloss .

In connection with his publishing work, Glock founded or sponsored z. B. the Cardinal Newman Society , the Willibald Pirkheimer Board of Trustees and the Colloquium of Nuremberg dialect poets , some of which have survived to the present day. Almost forty books by members of the latter college have been published by Glock & Lutz. Glock often invited these groups to his "Yellow Castle" in Heroldsberg.

Acquisition of the Yellow Castle in Heroldsberg and collecting work

Yellow Heroldsberg Castle

As the seat of the publishing house, Glock acquired, renovated and maintained from 1957 the Yellow Castle in Heroldsberg , built by the noble family of the Geuder von Heroldsberg , about which he published an art guide and became the meeting point with his large circle of friends and authors. Glock, as a collector of antiques and bibliophile treasures, furnished the interior of the castle with it.

Autobiographies / Documentaries

  • Karl Borromäus Glock 1905/1980 - From my unprinted publisher's breviary
  • The fiftieth year. Glock and Lutz Verlag, Nuremberg. The fateful years from 1923 to 1973

Work as a writer and draftsman

Glock was (also under the pseudonym Carl von Albrechtsreuth ) the author of essays and poems, some of which he provided and published with his own drawings, e.g. B .:

  • Eighty years - encounters with a hundred well-known contemporaries , 1985 Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-7738-6236-6
  • The yellow castle in Heroldsberg near Nuremberg - a documentation on the occasion of its 400th anniversary , Glock and Lutz, Heroldsberg 1979, ISBN 3-7738-8011-5 .
  • (Carl von Albrechtsreuth): Talk about the background of my television set - poems from 1978 , Glock and Lutz 1978
  • (Carl von Albrechtsreuth): Der Reiter vom Gnadenberg - poems of the year 1977 , Glock and Lutz 1977
  • (Carl von Albrechtsreuth): The Hour of Refusal - Poems from Four Decades , Glock and Lutz 1977
  • (Carl von Albrechtsreuth): In the cathedral behind a pillar - poems of the year 1976 , Glock and Lutz 1976
  • The risk. Justification of a loner. Experiences and maxims of a publisher . Hohenloher printing and publishing house, Gerabronn 1975
  • Stay in Greece. Discoveries in the North , 1983 Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-7738-6228-6
  • Willibald Pirkheimer Bibliography 1470/1970 , 1970, edited with Inge Meidinger-Geise (Willibald Pirkheimer Board of Trustees), Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • The yellow castle - a guide , 1967, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Workshop of the book. The bookseller as a businessman , 1953, Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart
  • The necessary thanks , 1953, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • The swapped duchess , 1950, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Bernadette's message , 1949, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Johannes , 1948, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Herbert Krauss , 1948. Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • August Straub , 80 years old , Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Eugenio , 1947, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Testimony of the young church , 1947, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg
  • Paths from yesterday to tomorrow. Speeches and memoranda from 1945 and 1946 , Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg

Awards

literature

  • Karl Borromeo Glock: The Risk. Justification of a loner. Experiences and maxims of a publisher . Hohenloher Printing and Publishing House, Gerabronn 1975, ISBN 3-87354-050-9 .
  • Manfred Lange: passionate bookmaker - Karl Borromäus Glock is 80 years old. In: Deutsche Tagespost, January 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Karl Borromäus Glock: The risk. Justification of a loner. Experiences and maxims of a publisher . Hohenloher printing and publishing house, Gerabronn 1975.
  2. ↑ Manfred Lange: Bookmaker out of passion - Karl Borromäus Glock turns 80, in German Daily Mail January 1985
  3. ^ Carl Borromäus Glock, "Obituary for Reinhold Schneider" in "Contemplation" (1958). In the last few nights of the war, Glock was still printing tens of thousands of the sonnets in a room next to the SS post and sending them - stamped with SS stamps! - to the front and to the hospitals.
  4. ^ Karl Borromeo Glock: The risk. Justification of a loner. Experiences and maxims of a publisher . Hohenloher Druck- und Verlagshaus, Gerabronn 1975, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Glock, Karl Borromeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, writer and castle owner
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1985
Place of death Heroldsberg