Carl Schlettwein (publisher)

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Grave slab in the family funeral in the churchyard of the Petschow village church

Carl Adolf Richard Curt "Carlo" Schlettwein (born February 5, 1925 in Schwerin ; † January 21, 2005 in Basel ) was a German-Swiss publisher and expert on Namibia .

Life

Carl Schlettwein was a son of the Mecklenburg ministerial official Adolf Schlettwein . After completing school at the Great City School Wismar and completing military service in World War II , he studied economics at the University of Kiel .

In 1952 he emigrated to South West Africa (now Namibia) on an emigrant ship going to Cape Town , where parts of the Schlettwein family had settled since the 1890s (see Carl Schlettwein (Farmer) ) and still live today. He worked there in a leading role in meat processing and overseas trade. At the same time he built up a personal Namibia library. After his marriage to the Swiss doctor Daniela Gsell , daughter of the director Rudolf Emil Gsell-Busse († 1962) of the Swiss Hoffmann-La Roche group , he moved to Basel in 1964, where he worked as a publisher in the south-west of Africa. In 1971 he founded the Basler Afrika Bibliographien , which has been supported since 1994 by the Carl Schlettwein Foundation , which was established from his collections and with funds from the estate of his in-laws . The foundation also specifically supports students in Namibia with scholarships and is based in the medieval Tscheggenbürlins Hus in Basel.

Schlettwein ran a quarterly news service from 1977 to 1991 and is the author and publisher of numerous works, including on historical and literary topics. Occasionally he also used the pseudonyms K. Peter Johansen and Martin Vogt .

family

Schlettwein married Daniela Gsell in 1963, with whom he had two children:

  • Pierrette (* 1965)
  • Carl Rudolf Laurenz, called Luccio (* 1967)

The economist Johann August Schlettwein is one of his ancestors .

Awards

Fonts

  • Directory of the writings of Johann August Schlettwein . 1731-1802 , 1970
  • Bibliography South West Africa (Namibia) , 1971 ff.
  • Libraries and archives in South West Africa , 1975
  • Johann August Schlettwein. A German physiocrat 1731–1802. List of his writings , 1981
  • South West Africa. Annual reports 1962–1979 , 1982

literature

  • Dag Henrichsen, Giorgio Miescher (Ed.): Documenting and researching Southern Africa. Aspects and perspectives. Essays in honor of Carl Schlettwein. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-905141-76-0 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8732 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Schlettwein died in Basel. Allgemeine Zeitung , January 24, 2005, accessed August 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Cf. Marcel Mayer: Gsell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Schlettwein, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlettwein, Carl Adolf Richard Curt (full name); Schlettwein, Carlo (given name); Johansen, K. Peter (pseudonym); Vogt, Martin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss publisher and expert on Namibia
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2005
Place of death Basel