Edwin Bauer

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Edwin Bauer, photo by P. Gliese, 1896

Heinrich Edwin Bauer (born March 30, 1873 in Dresden , † November 22, 1968 in Radebeul ) was a German entrepreneur , photographer and racing cyclist .

Life

Heinrich Edwin Bauer was born in Dresden in 1873. His father, Heinrich Julius Bauer, was the owner of a steam washing and washing plant in Dresden Neustadt . After his father's death in 1889, his mother Albine Edwine Bauer ran a materials and cutlery shop in Radebeul, with which she earned a living for herself and her two sons Edwin and his younger brother Albin. Edwin Bauer attended the school from 1879 to 1888 and then began to develop his first business activities trading various goods. In 1895 he founded his first company that manufactured and sold postcards and greeting cards.

From 1888 to 1905, Bauer was an active racing cyclist and, among other things, successfully took part in the first staging of the distance cycling trip from Vienna to Berlin in 1893 , in which he finished 16th.

On July 21, 1902, he married Gertrud Gummich, who was employed by a family. The marriage had three children. The family lived for a short time in Bad Gottleuba and then took over the mill with the “Forstmühle” inn in Krippen in Saxon Switzerland .

In 1909 the merchant Edwin Bauer built his house in Kötzschenbroda at Güterhofstrasse 9a and at the same time founded the company Papyruswerk Kötzschenbroda , which was located on the ground floor of the house. Not only was the production of postcards and greeting cards continued, ropes and toys were also sold.

During the First World War , Edwin Bauer was stationed in Königsbrück and remained in this garrison . From 1918 he continued to run the company as a wholesaler for paper goods and toys, which was taken over by his son Heinz in 1937. Edwin Bauer died widowed on November 22, 1968 in Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda in his apartment in the now listed rental villa Güterhofstraße 9a.

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At the end of 1993, Edwin Bauer's granddaughter, who lives in Radebeul, offered the Deutsche Fotothek her grandfather's photographic estate. There were 730 glass negatives (9 × 12). A single glass negative in the format 10 × 15, which shows the village center of Altkötzschenbroda , falls out of the frame .

In his company, which was founded in 1895, Edwin Bauer also produced and sold postcards and greeting cards. He photographed towns, churches, inns and factory buildings in Saxony and Silesia. Most of the time he was out on his bike. The pictures were taken between 1900 and 1914. Bauer was not a brilliant photographer, so that occasionally cut motifs (for example church towers) can be found. Overall, however, the documentary value of the recordings dominates this flaw.

After the First World War, Edwin Bauer gave up photography because card production was no longer a profitable business for him. The Meißner Kunstverlag Brück & Sohn , which had been issuing postcards since 1885 and whose negative inventory is now also in the Deutsche Fotothek, had become too big a competitor. Edwin Bauer gave his photographic equipment to a local museum around 1960.

The majority of his recordings are recorded in the Deutsche Fotothek's image database and are accessible to the public.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Graunke ; Walter Lemke; Wolfgang Rupprecht: Giants from then until today. The history of the German road cyclists. Munich 1993, p. 14.
  2. ^ Dresden address book, VI. Part Kötzschenbroda, 1915, p. 193.
  3. ^ Written information from the Radebeul City Archives from February 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Heinrich Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1968
Place of death Radebeul