Edwin Baer (antiquarian)

Edwin Markus Baer (born September 21, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1965 in London ) was a German antiquarian .

Life

Edwin Baer was a son of Simon Leopold Baer (1845-1919) from the well-known antiquarian bookshop Joseph Baer & Co. in Frankfurt am Main. He attended grammar school in Frankfurt until he graduated from high school in 1899 and then trained as a bookseller in Leipzig, France and England as well as in the family-owned antiquarian bookshop Joseph Baer & Co. in Frankfurt. There he and his brother Leo (pold Alfred) (1880–1948) became an authorized signatory in 1905, and in 1911 he was co-owner with his brother and Moriz Sondheim . After the professional ban by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and the dissolution of the antiquarian bookshop in 1934, he went to Switzerland, where he and his brother opened the antiquarian bookshop "Aux amateurs des livres" in Geneva. In 1935 he went to Amsterdam, in early 1936 to Paris and then to London in mid-1936. In 1937 his German citizenship was withdrawn due to alleged "movement of goods, foreign exchange offenses and tax evasion". In London, where he again opened an antiquarian bookshop ("E. Baer Bookseller"), he was no longer able to continue the successful tradition of the antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt.

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 2, 1, Saur, Munich et al. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 46.
• Michael Hauck (Ed.): Albert Hahn. An outcast son of Frankfurt, banker and scientist. A documentation . Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1138-2 , p. 162.
• Ernst Fischer: Publishers, booksellers and antiquarians from Germany and Austria who emigrated after 1933. A biographical handbook . Association of German Antiquaries, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812223-2-6 , p. 29.