Bernhard Vopelius

Bernhard Christian August Julius Vopelius (born December 30, 1864 in Jena ; † February 27, 1952 there ) was a Jena publisher .

life and work

Bernhard Vopelius was born in Jena as the son of a master tanner. He trained as a printer in the Frommann print shop . After working in Mannheim, Augsburg and Leipzig, in September 1891 he took over the social-liberal newspaper “ Jenaer Volksblatt ” founded by Ernst Abbe a year earlier . He published these until they were forcibly discontinued in 1941. After unsuccessful attempts to regain approval for the newspaper after the war, he died at the age of 87 in his hometown.

As a publisher, printer and politician, Vopelius accompanied Jena's rise to an industrial city. With the publication of the "Jenaer Volksblatt" he played an important part in the strong influence of liberal forces in Jena from the beginning to the middle of the 20th century. In his publishing house, political writings appeared from the environment of liberal, but also social democratically minded Jena personalities. The books on Jena local history and history were particularly successful, especially by his co-editor Herbert Koch . The publication of the magazine “Quadriga” aroused national interest. This published industrial literature by the " Werkfolk at House Nyland " and appeared between 1912 and 1914.

literature

• Uwe-K. Ketelsen (ed.): Quadriga. Quarterly journal of the workmen on House Nyland Jena , published by Bernhard Vopelius, edition autumn 1912, reprint, Aisthesis Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89528-784-8
• Reminder sheet for the 40th anniversary of our esteemed boss Bernhard Vopelius 1891. Jena, September 21, 1931 , Jena: Vopelius 1931.
• From the history of the Vopelius family. Familiengeschichtliche Blätter , (7 booklets by various authors), Jena 1935–1939
• Herbert Koch: Bernhard Vopelius - printer and publisher in Jena , in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Frankfurt edition, 20th year, December 18, 1964, 101, pp. 2484–2486
• Kristian Philler: “For unity and justice and freedom”. The publisher Bernhard Vopelius (1864–1953) in Jena , in: The big city, The cultural and historical archive of Weimar-Jena, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2008, Verlag Vopelius, ISSN  1865-3111
• Kristian Philler: Art. Vopelius, Bernhard In: Matias Mieth, Rüdiger Stutz (ed.): Jena. Lexicon on city history. Tümmel-Verlag, Berching 2018, p. 692.