Armin Renker

Armin Renker (born July 22, 1891 in Düren , † August 14, 1961 in Zerkall ) was a German manufacturer , paper researcher , writer and politician .

Life

Armin Renker came from an old papermaking family . He was born as the son of paper manufacturer Gustav Renker (1848–1939) and his wife Addi Schoeller (1858–1957) in 1891 in Düren. Addi Schoeller was the daughter of the paper manufacturer Benno Vitus Schoeller (1828–1908) and the granddaughter of Heinrich August Schoeller (1786–1863), a paper mill owner in the northern Eifel. After attending the secondary school in Düren , Armin Renker studied from 1909 to 1914 at the Technical University of Darmstadt , at the École Française de Papeterie in Grenoble and at the commercial college in Berlin .

He took part in the First World War from 1914 as a lieutenant in the reserve . From 1919 he was the owner of a paper mill that was internationally known for its "Zerkall hand-made paper " in the Eifel town of Zerkall . Here he was supported by his two brothers Max and Hans Renker. In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Renker worked as a paper researcher, bibliophile and writer .

In 1937 he was one of the founders of the Association of Pulp and Paper Chemists and Engineers. From 1938 he was responsible for the newly founded “Research Center for Paper History” in Mainz . Renker, who was a member of the CDU , belonged to the district council of the Düren district from 1945 to 1960 . From 1946 to 1948 he was the district administrator of the Düren district and co-initiator of the state aid for the city of Düren , which was particularly hard hit by the war, and the Hürtgenwald border region .

Armin Renker was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1952 ; He was also the recipient of the Ring of Honor of the Research Center for Paper History. In 1959 he was one of the founders of the International Working Group of Paper Historians (IPH) .

Armin Renker has written numerous specialist publications on the history of paper; his book on paper has long been considered a standard work . Renker's literary work, which is influenced by Adalbert Stifter , consists mainly of short prose and poetry .

Armin Renker had been married to Elisabeth Schleicher, a daughter of Otto Schleicher, the part owner of the paper company Carl Schleicher & Schütt, since 1920. The sons Klaus and Alfred Renker emerged from the marriage.

Publications

• Georg Büchner and the Comedy of Romanticism , Berlin 1924
• The writer , Berlin 1928
• Das Buch vom Papier , Berlin 1929; 2nd edition ibid 1939
• About the paper , Berlin 1930
• Double the year , Freiburg 1932
• Dr. Karl Theodor Weiss in Mönchweiler and his collection of paper history , Frankfurt 1932
• Columbine and delphinium , Freiburg 1933
• Sound of Cities , Vienna 1933
• The picture , Munich 1934
• The monastery , Munich 1934
• Papermaker and printer , Mainz 1934
• Mirror of the landscape , Weimar 1935
• Zerkall laid paper , Zerkall 1935
• Paper and printing in the Far East , Mainz 1936
• Zerkall in the Eifel , Düren 1936 (together with Reinhold Heinen)
• Handmade paper in old and new times , Berlin 1937
• Home is strong . Amthorsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1937
• Malouin shores , Zittau 1937
• The collector of Leiden , Cologne 1937
• The watermark as a cultural document , Berlin 1937
• Thanks to the flax , Zerkall on Düren 1938
• The clock man and other fairy tales , Berlin 1938
• The path and development of paper , Berlin 1938
• Poems , Querfurt 1939
• The white and the black art , Frankfurt am Main 1940
• The nameless shepherdess , Ratingen 1941
• Klang aus der Stille , Querfurt 1943
• The snake , Zittau 1943
• Alfred Schulte, head of the paper history research center in Mainz to commemorate , Zittau 1944
• Dion and the source , Zittau 1944
• Keller's feat , Reval 1944
• A booklet from the book , Cologne 1946
• Little prose , Heidelberg 1946
• Sky Keys and Autumn Croissants , Heidelberg 1947
• In the twelve silent nights , Heidelberg 1947
• Weg , Angermund 1947
• Glückskind , Stuttgart 1948
• San Gian , Düren / Rheinld. 1948
• Between Venn and Maar , Cologne 1948
• The Birth of Paper , Zerkall 1952
• Four and one , St. Gallen 1952
• Praise of the Eifel , Düren 1953 (together with Christian Reimer)
• Monschau or Der Frieden , Krefeld 1953
• Home is what remains , Munich 1954
• Lover papers , Zerkall on Düren 1954
• Hölderlin's shadow , Stuttgart 1955
• The Research Center for Paper History in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz , Wiesbaden 1956
• Paper and Culture , Gernsbach (Baden) 1956
• The fullness of history , Karlsruhe 1957
• The trip to Filigranistan , Mainz 1957
• Why real handmade paper? , Zerkall 1958
• La cité intérieure , Munich 1960
• Mountain and Valley , Mainz 1961
• Roman poems , Zerkall 1963
• The flag , Zerkall 1967
• Herbst , Zerkall 1971

Editing

• Honoré de Balzac : The Beginning of a Great Victory , Zerkall 1938.
• Jean Imberdis : Des Pater Imberdis Sang vom Papier , Cologne 1945.

Translations

• Henri Pourrat: The old paper mills in the Auvergne , Vienna [u. a.] 1936.

literature

• In memoriam Armin Renker speaks and reads Herbert Günther , Cologne 1962.
• Frieder Schmidt:  Renker, Armin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 425 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Renker in the catalog of the German National Library