Albrecht Knaus

Albrecht Knaus (born May 5, 1913 in Munich ; † November 27, 2007 in Munich) was a German publisher .

Life

Albrecht Knaus - a son of the lawyer Anton Knaus and his wife Laura Knaus, b. Gramich- Mendelssohn - studied history, art history, German literature and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Knaus received his doctorate with his dissertation on Die Münchener Post during the First World War . He then completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in the Heinrich Hugendubel bookstore from 1937 to 1939 . Knaus then worked at Piper Verlag as an editor and from 1945 to 1955 as editor-in-chief. From 1956 he was a publishing director at Scherz & Goverts for a short time ; then Knaus took over the management of the Propylaen publishing house at Ullstein , for which he acquired all rights to the complete works of Gerhart Hauptmann in 1959 .

From 1966 to 1977 Albrecht Knaus was the publishing director responsible for the program at the Hamburg publishing house Hoffmann & Campe , which was able to make good sales, especially with the writer Siegfried Lenz and his German lesson (1968). In 1973 Knaus also became a partner in the Hofmann & Campe publishing house.

In January 1978, founded Knaus in cooperation with the then publishing group Bertelsmann to Albrecht Knaus Verlag in the legal form of a sole proprietorship, and with the head office in Hamburg. In 1989 he handed over the management to Ewald Dede and Karl Blessing .

Web links

• The time. Fritz Raddatz: An independent spirit.
• Börsenblatt: Nekrolog.
• Heinold asked in August: Albrecht Knaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog (Ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers. 8th edition. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1983, p. 222.