August Moritz Ferdinand Schauenburg

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August Moritz Ferdinand Schauenburg (born November 7, 1863 in Lahr ; † March 13, 1933 there ) was a German publisher .

After graduating from high school in Lahr in 1882 and one year of military service in Heidelberg, he became a lieutenant in the reserve. He studied economics in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg and obtained a doctorate in philology. During his studies in 1884 he became a member of the Normannia Leipzig fraternity . His parents were Johann Moritz Konrad Schauenburg and Julie Amalie Schauenburg, b. Violinist. She was the granddaughter of the founder of the print shop and the Geiger publishing house in Lahr, which his father brought to great success as Moritz Schauenburg Verlag with, among other things, the Lahrer Limping Bote calendar . He headed the publishing house from 1895 to 1933. He was on the board of directors of the First German Reich Orphanage, which was proposed in 1876 by the editor Albert Bürklin and promoted by his father. In 1897 he married Marie Luise Karoline, b. Brauch, daughter of the Medical Councilor and Privy Councilor Max Brauch in Kehl. They had 3 sons and a daughter.

literature

  • Christian Sütterlin: Lahrer personalities , Ettenheim 1955, p. 33 ff.
  • Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Moritz Schauenburg KG publishing house , Lahr, Lahr 1969
  • German Gender Book Vol. 122 (= Lower Saxony Gender Book Vol. 6), Glücksburg 1957, (p. 159 ff., With picture)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 442.
  2. ↑ Article in the "Lahr-Lexikon" of the Badische Zeitung, (without author)
  3. ↑ Article in leo BW, author: Renate Liessem-Breinlinger
personal data
SURNAME Schauenburg, August Moritz Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1933
Place of death Lahr