Ernst Hauswedell

Ernst Ludwig A. Hauswedell (born September 3, 1901 in Hamburg ; † November 2, 1983 there ) was a German publisher , antiquarian and art dealer .

Life

Pillow stone for “Dr. phil. Ernst L. Hauswedell ”, Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Hauswedell studied at the Universities of Freiburg , Hamburg and Munich and received his doctorate in 1924. phil. After working for a bank, he founded the publishing house Der Deutsche Buch-Club , run by Siegfried Buchenau , together with Kurt Saucke and Rudolf Hartung in Hamburg in 1927, and in 1930 he joined an antiquarian bookshop. The book club and its affiliated antiquarian bookshop merged into Hauswedell's own company in 1935. In the publishing Hauswedell multiple fonts for book and art collector appeared. In addition to his Hamburg antiquarian bookshop and auction house, Hauswedell also ran a gallery with exhibitions of contemporary art in Baden-Baden from 1963 to 1974 .

Hauswedell played a key role in the re-establishment of the Maximilian Society in Hamburg in 1946 and was chairman of the Association of German Book Antiquaries and Graphics Dealers.

Ernst L. Hauswedell, a passionate fisherman , was buried in Hamburg in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of the family grave, grid square AC 11 (southeast of Chapel 8 near Norderstrasse ).

Honors

1966: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1974: Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
1981: Biermann Ratjen Medal

Publications (selection)

Fish books from five centuries. 1964 (collection with 198 numbers).

literature

Ernst L. Hauswedell: A work report 1927–1981 , Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7762-0214-9
Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Arani, Berlin 1955.

Individual evidence

↑ Harald S. Butz: Saucke, Kurt . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 263-264 .
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: pp. 2871.

personal data
SURNAME	Hauswedell, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hauswedell, Ernst Ludwig A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 2nd 1983
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Harald S. Butz: Saucke, Kurt . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 263-264 .

[2] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: pp. 2871.