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Friedrich Emil Bruno Raute (born November 21, 1865 in Riestedt ; † August 24, 1943 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German printer and journalist .

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Bruno Raute was a son of Friedrich Christian Raute and his wife Wilhelmine Theresia, née Hoffmann. The father worked as a baton trumpeter in the fortress artillery regiment Magdeburg. At the age of 20 he moved to Ratzeburg , where he worked as an editor at the HHC Freystatzky printing company. On September 15, 1891, he married the daughter of the owner and granddaughter of the company founder, Friederike Anna Emilie Freystatzky, with whom he had two children.

After the death of his mother-in-law, Raute headed the company from 1900. In doing so, he expanded the Lauenburgische Zeitung, which he soon published daily. In Ratzeburg he worked early as city councilor and later senator and for many years as deputy mayor. From 1918 he served as a commission council .

Bruno Raute died on August 24, 1943 in Bad Schwartau.

Works

Bruno Raute and Hans Ferdinand Gerhard founded the Lauenburgische Heimatverlag in 1925 and published the magazine Lauenburgische Heimat . Raute played a large part in most of the publications published by the publisher. This included the chronicle of the city of Ratzeburg originally written by L. Hellwig in 1910, which Raute updated and re-published for the years up to 1929. In 1933 he described in his own book “The New Citizens of the City of Ratzeburg from 1601 to 1871”, which later authors of comparable reference works were guided by.

Bruno Raute worked out the basics for a book about Lauenburg houses. These works and his estate were later taken over by the Ratzeburg City Archives.

literature

• Kurt Langenheim : Raute, Bruno . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, p. 227