Erich Cramer

Erich Cramer (born January 24, 1904 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen , † December 16, 1977 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was a German publisher.

The son of the metalworker Emil Cramer (1869–1937) joined the Berlin architecture and art publisher Ernst Wasmuth as a graphic artist in 1924 , where he was dismissed after eight years due to economic difficulties. He took up a freelance sales activity for the Atlantis publishing house , which Martin Hürlimann had founded in Berlin in 1930. With Hürlimann's support, he opened the "Erich Cramer Bookstore" in 1932. In 1937 he acquired his certificate as a sports boat skipper in Stettin. While he was seconded to the Navy from 1940 to 1945, his plot was bombed out.

In August 1945 he opened a new bookstore, moved into new business premises at Potsdamer Straße 180-82 the next year and specialized in architecture, construction technology and the arts and crafts. There was also an attached travel and shipping department. Soon he had 20 employees. From 1948 he tried in vain to establish book subscriptions with the bookseller Kurt Meurer (1901–1991) and with the support of the Börsenverein. Reinhard Mohn later implemented the idea.

With the increasing isolation of Berlin, he left the management of the Berlin bookstore to his brother Herbert and founded the Kronen-Verlag in October 1950 in Frankfurt's Kronbergstrasse , with which he moved to Hamburg's Steindamm in 1953/54 . He later moved to Donnerstrasse in Altona. Hans-Joachim von Leesen was part of the management team. His scientific illustrators included Claus Caspari, Wilhelm Eigener, Franz Murr, Ludwig Binder, Karl Grossmann and Hans Vogel.

In the summer of 1954 he married Ingeborg Rudolph for the second time, with whom he had two children. They lived in the Gustav Frenssen House in Blankenese. The couple toured Africa and India. His wife brought the moth rhipidarctia crameri sp. From Masindi . n. with.

His widow sold the publishing house to their daughter Susanne in 1996. After Ingeborg's death on November 29, 1996 the publishing activities were stopped until 2006.

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