Eckard Klostermann

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Eckard Klostermann (1914)

Eckard Julius Klostermann (born September 5, 1870 in Messina , Italy, † September 18, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) was a German bookseller and publisher in Jena and Bonn .

Life and education

Eckard Klostermann was the first of five children from the second marriage of the businessman Julius Klostermann (1826-1900) to Helene Eckard (1849-1930). His half-sister was the pedagogue and Froebel researcher Helene Klostermann , his paternal uncle was the patent and copyright specialist Rudolf Klostermann .

Up to the age of 12 he was taught at home in Messina (1879–1882 by his half-sister Helene). In 1882 the family moved to Berlin. Eckard attended the Askanische Gymnasium in Berlin between 1883 and 1886 and the Royal Luisen Gymnasium there from 1886 to 1890 . 1890–1893 Klostermann completed an apprenticeship in the W. Weber bookstore in Berlin, then assistant positions in the court bookstore Groos in Koblenz (1893–1894), Friedrich Cohen in Bonn (1894–1896) and Rosenberg & Sellier in Turin (1896–1898) .

In Turin he met Angiolina Maspes (* February 2, 1976 in Ivrea ; † March 3, 1947 in Bad Godesberg ), and they married in 1900. The marriage had two children: Vittorio Julius Klostermann (born December 29, 1901 in Jena; † August 29, 1977 in Müllheim / Baden ) and Annemarie Klostermann (born October 17, 1904 in Jena; † August 13, 1994 in Düsseldorf ).

Professional activities

In 1898 Eckard Klostermann joined the Frommann'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung in Jena, on October 1, 1900 as a personally liable partner , from 1903 as sole owner. The Frommann'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, which had had a publishing department since 1880 , was rebuilt after the takeover. Eckard Klostermann advocated a scientific orientation for the publishing house. In addition, Klostermann expanded the art trade by setting up a "Graphisches Kabinett" , which gave access to works by contemporary artists, for example Emil Nolde , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or Walther Klemm . He was also able to win the painter Otto Ubbelohde as an illustrator for a city guide of Jena. However, he was not granted economic success, and in 1914 he had to sell the bookstore. Felix Jud , who he had taken on as an apprentice the year before and who - only 15 years old - was temporarily running the business , was able to report a "brilliant Christmas business" at the end of 1914.

In 1915, Klostermann found a job as head of advertising at the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig (today the location of the German National Library ). He was responsible for maintaining relations between the Deutsche Bücherei and the publishers. In 1917 he resigned from this position and joined the S. Hirzel Verlag in Leipzig as a department head .

In October 1920 Fritz Cohen, owner of the Friedrich Cohen company and friend of Klostermann since he was a journeyman there (1894-1896), offered him a power of attorney , combined with the reorganization and management of the publishing house. Cohen's program was primarily focused on the natural sciences and medicine , but also included quite a few works from history , theology and literary studies . These included such important authors as Hermann Usener , Max Scheler and Karl Reinhardt . While Walter Cohen enriched his brother Fritz's publishing house with works on art and art history , Klostermann expanded the humanities publishing branch and in 1922/23 was able to win Paul Ludwig Landsberg , Ernst Robert Curtius , Walter F. Otto and Helmuth Plessner as authors, as well as Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim as editor of a series of publications on philosophy and sociology .

On January 1, 1924, Klostermann brought his son Vittorio Klostermann into the company as head of the antiquarian bookshop department , but very soon also with tasks in the publishing house. In 1926, father and son Klostermann u. a. Writings by Friedrich Dessauer and Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer and founded the Philosophical Gazette . Fritz Cohen died in 1927 and his wife Hedwig Cohen took over the company as the sole owner. In 1928 she gave Vittorio Klostermann power of attorney and gave him the management of the publishing house.

From 1928 to 1930 Friedrich Cohen published works a. a. by Hans Lipps , Günther Stern / Anders , Friedrich Dessauer , Martin Heidegger and Karl Mannheim , but by the end of 1930 the new production had to be largely stopped for economic reasons. While Vittorio Klostermann went to Frankfurt and founded a publishing house under his own name, Eckard Klostermann stayed with Cohen until his retirement in 1937. Times have been very tough for the company. Although Fritz Cohen was baptized in Bonn six months after his birth on December 29, 1872, his company was considered Jewish and was boycotted. After the National Socialist "seizure of power" in 1933, it was located directly opposite the university and became one of the main targets of the Nazi students. Annual sales fell sharply. Hedwig Cohen, b. Bouvier, changed the name of the company to " Bouvier " in order to avoid the threatened economic collapse.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Klostermann: Klostermann, Vittorio. In: New German Biography. Vol 12. Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1980, accessed on October 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ News about the Klostermann family. Collected and edited by Heinrich August Klostermann. Printed by Dr. Friedrich Middelhauve in Opladen near Cologne, 1925. S. 189 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c Klostermann publishing archive. Personnel file German library. German Literature Archive Marbach, accessed on October 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ News about the Klostermann family. Collected and edited by Heinrich August Klostermann. Printed by Dr. Friedrich Middelhauve in Opladen near Cologne, 1925. P. 193 ff.
  5. ^ Eckard Klostermann: Letter from Eckard Klostermann to Ernst Haeckel. 1905, Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ News about the Klostermann family. Collected and edited by Heinrich August Klostermann. Printed by Dr. Friedrich Middelhauve in Opladen near Cologne, 1925. S. 189 ff.
  7. ↑ On the Frommann book and art trade (Eckard Klostermann) in: Reinhard Würffel (Ed.): Ernst Frommann Verlag. In: Lexicon of German publishers. AZ. 1071 publishers from 1545–1945. Verlag Grotesk Berlin, Berlin 2000, pp. 260f.
  8. ↑ Werner J. Schweiger: Entry for the planned publication "Lexicon of the Modern Art Trade in the German-Speaking Area 1905-1937". Werner J. Schweiger art archive, 2005, accessed on October 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ernst Piltz: Guide through Jena. 1912, Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Personnel documents from Frommann'sche Buchhandlung. 1912-1942. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Rainer Moritz: "The snakes were fed before the shop opened." Stories by Felix Jud Buchhandlung Antiquariat Kunsthandel. Verlag Felix Jud, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813318-7-5 , p. 20 f.
  12. ↑ a b Klostermann publishing archive. German Literature Archive Marbach, accessed on October 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Bouvier 1828 - 1978. Edited by Herbert Grundmann. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 1978. ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 31 ff.
  14. ^ News about the Klostermann family. Collected and edited by Heinrich August Klostermann. Printed by Dr. Friedrich Middelhauve in Opladen near Cologne, 1925. P. 193 ff.
  15. ^ Ernst Fischer: Publishers, booksellers and antiquarians from Germany and Austria who emigrated after 1933. A biographical handbook. Association of German Antiquaries, 2011. p. 48.
  16. ↑ Bouvier 1828 - 1978. Edited by Herbert Grundmann. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 1978. ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 14.
  17. ↑ Bouvier 1828 - 1978. Edited by Herbert Grundmann. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 1978. ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 42.
  18. ↑ Bouvier 1828 - 1978. Edited by Herbert Grundmann. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 1978. ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Klostermann, Eckard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klostermann, Eckard Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Messina , Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1958
Place of death Dusseldorf , Germany