Casimir Katz (publisher)

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Casimir Paul Katz (born September 7, 1925 in Lübeck ; † March 21, 2008 in Rastatt ) was a German entrepreneur and publisher .

Life

Casimir Katz was born in Lübeck as the first child of the timber industrialist Helmuth Katz (1891–1969) and his wife Elisabeth, née Bender (1904–1993) . He came from a family "that was connected to the forest and the timber trade for centuries". His great-grandfather, the Reichstag deputy Casimir Rudolf Katz , was chairman of the board of directors of the Murgschifferschaft and pioneer of industrial woodworking, his grandfather Casimir Otto Katz was a pioneer of industrial beer mat production. Casimir Katz spent his childhood and youth in Lübeck. From 1936 he attended the Johanneum in Lübeck . As a so-called “ second degree half-breed ” he was exposed to disadvantages during the Nazi era . He completed his studies in economics and business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1946 with a degree in business administration. On the topic of financing the wood industry , he obtained his doctorate. rer. pole. His marriage to Christine Fischer (* 1930) in 1953 resulted in three children.

Activity in the wood and paper industry as well as in forestry

In 1951 Casimir Katz joined the board of directors of Katz & Klumpp AG in Gernsbach , at that time “one of the world's leading companies in the wood industry”. In 1962 he resigned from the board when the companies GA Pfleiderer in Neumarkt and K. Richtberg KG in Bingen acquired the majority of shares in Katz & Klumpp AG. As a long-time member of the supervisory board, he remained connected to the company (Katz Werke AG since 1970, part of the Koehler Paper Group since 2009 ). Casimir Katz had been a member of the board of directors of the Murgschifferschaft since 1983, as its chairman from 1997 until his death in 2008.

Activity as publisher and author

In 1962 Casimir Katz started his own business as a journalist and business consultant. In 1968 he acquired the European Economic Service (EUWID). From small beginnings, he developed it into an important industry information service that is currently (2011) published in German and English for a total of nine branches of industry. Also in 1968 he took over the Deutsche Betriebswirte-Verlag , which he relocated from Berlin to Gernsbach. In 1985 he founded the Casimir Katz Verlag with a focus on history and biographies. Casimir Katz has published several special publications on the wood and paper industry, including a. the wood dictionary , the specialist paper dictionary and, together with Lothar Göttsching, the three-volume paper lexicon . In 2000 he published memories of his childhood and youth in the Third Reich under the title Everyone saw it differently . He processed the story of his family in the novel Die Holzbarone , published in 2005 . Motifs from the book served as a template for the ZDF / ORF television film Die Holzbaronin from 2012.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed., Together with Lothar Göttsching) Paper lexicon . 3 volumes u. CD, Gernsbach 1999. ISBN 978-3-88640-090-4
  • (Ed.) Dictionary wood . German-English, English-German, 3rd edition Gernsbach 2006. ISBN 978-3-88640-116-1
  • (Ed.) Technical dictionary paper . German-English, English-German, 4th edition Gernsbach 2009. ISBN 978-3-88640-138-3
  • Everyone saw it differently. Memories of my childhood and youth in the Third Reich . Gernsbach 2000, ISBN 978-3-925825-77-4
  • The wooden barons. Chronicle of a family of industrialists . Roman, Gernsbach 2005. ISBN 978-3-925825-97-2

swell

  • Susanne Preuss: The last wooden baron . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 19 of January 23, 2006.
  • Wolfgang Froese: worldview, commitment and humanity . In: Gernsbacher Bote No. 2 from June 15, 2008, p. 11 f.
  • Dr. Casimir Katz 80 years . In: Holz-Zentralblatt No. 67 from September 6, 2005.
  • Casimir Katz: Truth and Poetry - History and Memories of an Eventful Time . Gernsbach 1995.
  • The patriarch. The life of Johanna Ernestine Katz, b. Kast. Told by her grandson Casimir Paul Katz . Gernsbach 1998.
  • Max Scheifele : The Murgschifferschaft. History of the raft trade, the forest and the timber industry in the Murg Valley . Gernsbach 1988, pp. 484-486, 492.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holz-Zentralblatt dated September 6, 2007
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 23, 2006
  3. ↑ Die Holzbaronin at Kino.de , accessed on February 28, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Katz, Casimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, Casimir Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2008
Place of death Gernsbach