Emil Conrad
Emil Conrad (born October 20, 1885 in Hanover , † February 23, 1967 there ) was a German collector of works by Wilhelm Busch and the first director of the Wilhelm Busch Museum .
Life
Emil Conrad completed a commercial apprenticeship and later worked as an assistant at Continental AG , where he worked in accounting . He was proficient in shorthand and as early as 1921 - as an honorary member - he wrote a commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary of the “Gabelsberger” stenographers' association from 1846 in Leipzig .
Conrad was an employee of Professor Erich Obst in the Geographical Society of Hanover , then became active in the Heimatbund Lower Saxony and in the Chamber Music Community of Hanover , which he co-founded. In 1927 he left his commercial activity at Continental AG and instead became managing director of the Kulturring Hannover , which had been founded a few years earlier in 1924 .
Emil Conrad developed a special love for the works of Wilhelm Busch and gave "the decisive impetus for founding the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft ", whose management he held from 1930 to 1956 and through which he participated in the rescue of the house where Busch was born in Wiedensahl . The collector, who is also passionate in his private life, "with a great deal of intuition, negotiating skills, patience and with the help of many a bouquet of flowers [...] collected the largest part of Wilhelm Busch's scattered estate for the Wilhelm Busch Museum". In 1937 he became the first director of the Wilhelm Busch Museum (also until 1956).
After retiring from professional life, a journalist wrote on the occasion of Emil Conrad's 75th birthday:
"Things came to him as if they knew that they were safe with him."
Fonts
- Emil Conrad: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the "Gabelsberger" stenographers' association from 1846 in Leipzig. Anniversary gift from the honorary member , Leipzig [Albertstrasse 36 II]: "Gabelsberger" stenographers' association from 1846, 1921; Summary of the German National Library
literature
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Conrad, Emil. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 116.
- NN : Busch portrait from the junk shop / man with a "good nose" found it in: Der Spiegel from March 8, 1947
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Conrad in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Joachim Neyer: Emil Conrad (1885-1967). You just have to be able to rummage with people. on the site of Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and the Art of Drawing
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Conrad, Emil. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 116
- ↑ a b c d Hans Joachim Neyer: Emil Conrad (1885–1967) ... (see web links )
- ↑ catalog entry ( DNB 579,295,397 ) of the German National Library .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conrad, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and collector, first director of the Wilhelm Busch Museum |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1967 |
| Place of death | Hanover |