Alfred Wilhelm Baedeker

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Alfred Wilhelm Baedeker (born June 19, 1888 in Essen ; † August 5, 1937 there ) was a German publisher and bookseller. In 1922 he was the sole owner of GD Baedeker Verlag .

Life

Born as the son of the bookseller Diedrich Gottschalk Baedeker , he graduated from the secondary school in Hildesheim . This was followed by an apprenticeship in banking in Stuttgart , as well as studying law from 1910 at the universities in Berlin , Göttingen , Greifswald , Munich and Münster (Westphalia) . In 1913 Baedeker took the legal traineeship exam in Hamm .

At the beginning of the First World War he became a war volunteer in 1914 and two years later a lieutenant in the reserve in Schleswig-Holstein's 9th foot artillery regiment . After the end of the war in 1918, he resumed his traineeship.

On August 2, 1922, Alfred Baedeker became the sole owner of GD Baedeker Verlag in Essen, succeeding his father . He was the editor of the yearbook for the Dortmund Upper Mining District until the Association for Mining Interests in the Dortmund Upper Mining District took over the publication. The yearbook was founded by Victor Weidtman and continued by his father Diedrich Baedeker.

In 1925 Baedeker married Marta geb. Preuschel , who had completed her training at Baedekerverlag and later joined the management team. Alfred Baedeker was instrumental in furnishing the Baedekerhaus , which was built in 1928 in downtown Essen and is now a listed building. Due to high investments in the bookstore, the business almost went bankrupt, after which his wife took over the management in full. In 1933, Baedeker retired from active business for health reasons. In addition, since he was half-Jewish, he was increasingly exposed to the discrimination of the National Socialists .

Baedeker died as a result of a fall. His grave is in the Ostfriedhof in Essen .

literature

  • Walter Bacmeister: Alfred Baedeker, in: Necrologist from the Rheinisch-Westphalian industrial area . Essener Verlag-Anst., Essen 1940, p. 12 .
  • Klaus Wisotzki: Book culture in the middle of industry. 225 years GD Baedeker in Essen . Ed .: Dorothea Bessen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 978-3-88474-786-5 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Baedeker, Alfred Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1937
Place of death eat