Adolf Sponholtz

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Adolf Sponholtz (born June 7, 1869 in Klein Süntel (now part of Bad Münder ), † October 25, 1951 ) was a publisher and printer owner.

Adolf Sponholtz was the third of five children of the merchant and glassworks owner (1865–1879) Emil Friedrich Sponholtz (born May 11, 1835 in Rostock; † August 1, 1887) and Adele Johanne Sophie Dorothea Schlueter (1844–1902). The grandfather Adolph Heinrich Sponholtz (1803-1851) was an organist at St. Marien and a music teacher in Rostock.

In October 1894, Adolf Sponholtz opened a school bookshop on Georgsplatz in Hanover . He married Laura, b. Ritter (born July 15, 1873 in Bremen), with whom he married the son Heinz (1896–1970) and the daughter Käte. Pancke, had. In 1906 he also took over a “rather provincial” publishing house, which mainly published the works of Hermann Löns († 1914). He gave him an advance of 3,000 marks for Lön's first two novels. Other authors were Upton Sinclair and Jack London .

His wife, from whom he was divorced in 1917, ran the publishing house as authorized signatory from World War I to 1927. Lisa Hausmann-Löns, who translated some books from the American language and had separated from her husband in 1911, entered into a settlement in 1917 in an emergency and later argued with Laura about the royalties. After the acquisition of the Fritz Wengler print shop in Lavesstrasse in April 1919, the company was renamed Sponholtz Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH . In the 1920s, his company was one of the first to produce color catalogs and brochures for industry. It was also one of the few companies that was allowed to print emergency money and stocks. In October 1943 both commercial buildings were bombed and Sponholtz moved to Brotterode in Thuringia . "Mrs. Pancke's house on Bödekerstrasse, that of her brother Heinz Sponholtz on Richard-Wagnerstrasse and the Pancke office building on Marienstrasse have disappeared."

His children continued the publishing house until it was taken over by the Hamelin publishing house CW Niemeyer in 1963 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Böttcher: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon ; P. 324
  2. ↑ http://top10.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~mpw/Wynekens/Database/ps07/ps07_142.html ( Memento from May 18, 2013 on WebCite )
  3. ^ August Gathy: Musical Conversations Lexicon ; P. 436
  4. ^ I. Heidler: The publisher Eugen Diederichs and his world ; P. 768
  5. ↑ The Company - Tradition & Modern Technologies ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Letter exchange between Lisa Löns and Elfriede Rotermund from 1922 to 1955 ; P. 145
  7. ↑ http://backstage.dewezet.de/business/cur/dienstleistungen/anb99423.html
personal data
SURNAME Sponholtz, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and printer owner
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Süntel
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1951