Adolph Wittmaack

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Adolph Wittmaack (born June 30, 1878 in Itzehoe as Adolph Heinrich Claus Wittmaack , † November 4, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and writer .

Life

After attending secondary school in his home town of Itzehoe, Adolph Wittmaack completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as a businessman and later as an industrialist . Wittmaack stayed temporarily in Great Britain . He was also active in literature: he initially wrote columnist articles for magazines such as Simplicissimus , Jugend and März . From 1909 he published novels , short stories and plays . Wittmaack's work is strongly influenced by his adopted home of Hamburg . His most successful book was the novel "Konsul Möllers Erben", published in 1915, in which he describes the story of a Hamburg merchant family; in a greatly expanded new edition published in 1946, he continued the story until the Second World War .

Works

  • Hans Hinz Butenbrink , Munich 1909
  • The little lie , Berlin 1911
  • Consul Möller's heirs , Berlin 1915
  • Little stories to raise morale , Altona [u. a.] 1919
  • The Lump , Hamburg-Finkenwerder 1920
  • Naked Gods , Berlin [u. a.] 1920
  • Satires on Eros , Hamburg 1929
  • God wants to grow , Leipzig 1935
  • Ocean , Leipzig 1937

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