Alphons Dürr (publisher)

Alphons Dürr, around 1906

Alphons Friedrich Dürr (born January 21, 1828 in Leipzig ; † April 6, 1908 there ) was a German art publisher , bookseller and local Leipzig politician .

life and work

Alphons Dürr went to school at the CG Hander'schen Lehranstalt , in 1843 he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller with Carl Heinrich Reclam , which he completed in 1847. He then worked for a year as an assistant in the commission book trade of Friedrich Volckmar , and from the end of 1848 to 1852 he worked as a volunteer in the Twietmeyer bookstore . After the owner Carl Twietmeyer died in May 1852, Dürr took over the management on a temporary basis . In February 1853 Alphons Dürr became a citizen of the city of Leipzig, in the same year he took over the bookstore and founded his first company under the name C. Twietmeyer's bookstore Alphons Dürr . From 1854 the company traded under the name Alphons Dürr , in 1859 he took over the Scandinavian range from Carl Behrernd Lorck . In 1865 he bought the Leipzig publishing house Ludwig Denicke . In 1873 he gave up his company's entire foreign range business and then concentrated primarily on art publications, children's books and illustrated books.

Dürr had been a member of the Leipzig municipal guard since 1848 . In Connewitz , where he had owned a country house since 1857 , he was a member of the municipal council, founded the Leipzig volunteer fire brigade in 1865 , a local savings bank in 1872 and a public library in 1873 . From 1878 to 1901 Alphons Dürr was an unpaid member of the Leipzig City Council, where he worked for schools, music, theater and foundations. In 1903, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Albrecht . For several years Alphons Dürr was head of the Evangelical Reformed congregation in Leipzig, he was also a board member of the Leipziger Kunstverein (from 1868) and belonged to the Gewandhaus concert management (from 1890).

family

Alphons Dürr was born in Leipzig as the son of the merchant Friedrich Dürr (1796–1875) and Franziska Therese, née Rousset (1804–1874). On September 3, 1854, he married Helene Emilie von Villiers (1833–1855), from this marriage the publisher and art historian Alphons Dürr (1855–1912) emerged as a son. In his second marriage, Dürr was married to Marie Anna Henriette Gontard (1837–1898) from 1859 , and five children were born from this relationship.

Alphons Dürr has nothing to do with the Dürr'schen publishing bookstore .

Web links

• Personal entry Kalliope-Verbund , accessed on October 10, 2019.

literature

• Alphons Dürr : The Alphons Dürr bookstore in Leipzig. Festschrift to celebrate the fiftieth business anniversary of Alphons Friedrich Dürr on February 21, 1903 . Alphons Dürr, Leipzig 1903, DNB 580839494 .
• Ernst Kroker : Two hundred and fifty years of a Leipzig book printing and accounting department. The history of the Dürr'schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig from the founding of its parent company in 1656 to the present and the history of the Dürr family , ed. by Johannes Friedrich Dürr. Dürr'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1906, DNB 560651171 , here in particular pp. 177-184.
• Eightieth birthday. City Councilor Alphons Dürr . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 75 (1908), No. 17, ZDB -ID 1158-7 , pp. 873-874.
• Paul Mehlhorn: When saying goodbye to the publisher and city councilor Alphons Friedrich Dürr, born in Leipzig on January 21, 1828, died there on April 6, 1908. Speeches . C. Grumbach, Leipzig 1908, SWB online catalog 505317702 .
• Rudolf Mothes: Dürr, Alphons Friedrich . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), DNB 457680431 , p. 173 f. ( online in the Deutsche Biographie , accessed on October 11, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig. The historical travel guide . Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153634-5 , p. 106.