Alfred Kröner

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Grave of the Kröner family at the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart , Department 32 (Wall)

Alfred Kröner (born February 28, 1861 in Stuttgart , † January 2, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German publisher. He headed the Alfred Kröner Verlag in Stuttgart from its foundation in 1904 until his death in 1922 and published works by Friedrich Nietzsche , among others .

family

Alfred Kröner was the son of the publisher Adolf von Kröner , who with the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung and several other publishers had created a publishing network from which the Alfred Kröners publishing house emerged, as well as his wife Amalie, née Mäntler. His brother Robert Kröner was also a publisher and took over the main publishing house from his father after his death in 1911. His sister was the wife of Heinrich Beck , who had been in charge of the Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, founded by Adolf von Kröner since 1904.

In 1891 Alfred Kröner married the farmer's daughter Julie von Heymann, with whom he had three daughters. The daughter Erna , who married the publisher and successor to Kröner Wilhelm Klemm , is worth mentioning .

biography

Alfred Kröner started school at the Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt in Lichterfelde near Berlin at the age of nine and pursued a military career here. As a first lieutenant, he resigned in 1882 and began his training as a bookseller. This led him first to Munich , later to Vienna , London and New York . From 1886 on he was in charge of publishing the magazine Die Gartenlaube in Leipzig , which had belonged to his father since 1884 and where he was editor-in-chief.

In 1891 he moved back to his hometown Stuttgart and in 1896 he became a partner in the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, succeeding his father. The collaboration only lasted until 1898, as both worked very independently and wanted to assert their opinions over the other, which led to frequent arguments.

In 1897 Alfred Kröner took over the publication of the Architecture Manual , which he got from Arnold Bergsträßer's publishing house , and in the same year his father gave him the technical and scientific department of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. In 1901 Alfred Kröner also bought the Emil Strauss publishing house and in 1903 he added Uhland's engineering calendar from the Küthmann publishing house to his program . In 1904 he finally founded the Alfred Kröner Verlag and over the next few years he systematically supplemented the program with a number of other titles from various publishers.

In 1907 he moved with his publishing house to Leipzig and in 1908 began to publish Kröner's pocket edition , the first title of which was Die Weltträtsel by Ernst Haeckel . The publishing house became particularly well-known through the publication of works by Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacob Burckhardt . Alfred Kröner managed the publishing house successfully until his death in 1922. After his death, his son-in-law Wilhelm Klemm took over .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kröner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1922
Place of death Berlin