Baedeker

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Baedeker is the family name of the following people, in particular a publishing and bookselling dynasty from Essen:

  • Adolph Baedeker (1810–1906), founder of bookshops in Rotterdam and Cologne, son of Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker
  • Alfred Wilhelm Baedeker (1888–1937), son of Diedrich Gottschalk Baedeker, became the sole owner of GD Baedeker Verlag in 1922
  • Anna Theodora Baedeker (1736–1795), née Bastian, widowed Busch, widowed Wohlleben, publisher and bookseller, was her third marriage to Zacharias Gerhard Diederich Baedeker
  • Diedrich Baedeker (1680–1716), grandfather of Zacharias Gerhard Diederich Baedeker, bookseller in Bielefeld
  • Diedrich Gottschalk Baedeker (1850–1922), son of the publisher Julius Baedeker, publisher and editor, became the sole owner of GD Baedeker Verlag in 1903
  • Ernst Baedeker (1833–1861), son of Karl Baedeker, German publisher
  • Eugen Baedeker (1869–1940), German-English merchant and consul
  • Franz Gotthilf Heinrich Baedeker (1752–1825), brother of Zacharias Gerhard Diederich Baedeker, general superintendent and pastor in Dahl
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker (1823–1906), evangelist and world traveler missionary, son of Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker (1788–1865), German pharmacist, ornithologist and ornithological illustrator
  • Fritz Baedeker (1844–1925), German publisher, son of the publisher's founder Karl Baedeker
  • Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker (1778–1841), founder of the GD Baedeker publishing house in Essen and father of Karl Baedeker
  • Hans Baedeker (1874–1959), publicist, grandson of the publisher's founder Karl Baedeker
  • Hans Jürgen Baedeker (* 1941), German lawyer and State Secretary
  • Hugo Baedeker (1846–1879), founder of a bookshop in Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Julius Baedeker (1821–1898), the youngest son of Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker, publisher and editor
  • Julius Theodor Baedeker (1814–1880), son of Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker, founder of a bookstore and a publishing house in Elberfeld and Iserlohn with a printer and founder of the Iserlohner Zeitung
  • Karl Baedeker (1801–1859), German publisher and founder of the publishing house, eldest son of Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker, founder of the Baedeker publishing house in Stuttgart
  • Karl Baedeker junior (1837–1911), German publisher, son of the publisher's founder Karl Baedeker
  • Karl Baedeker (physicist) (1877–1914), German physicist, son of the publisher Fritz Baedeker
  • Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910–1979), German publisher
  • Marta Baedeker (1889–1973), bookseller, benefactor, wife of Alfred Wilhelm Baedeker
  • Peer Baedeker (actually Ernst-Max Hacke; 1912–1999), German opera singer (tenor), writer, antiquarian and actor
  • Walther Baedeker (1880–1959), German architect
  • Zacharias Gerhard Diederich Baedeker (1750–1800), father of Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker, High Princely Court Printer in Essen


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