Erwin Barth from Wehrenalp

Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp (born September 25, 1911 in Dresden , † April 21, 1996 in Paris ) was an Austrian publicist and publisher .

Life

Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp - a son of the doctor Burkhard Barth von Wehrenalp - grew up in Vienna , where he attended high school. From 1930 to 1932 he worked as a dramaturge at the Vienna German Volkstheater and then from 1932 to 1933 at the Berlin German Volkstheater . After the seizure of power in 1933, Barth von Wehrenalp was banned from working, which induced him to deal with journalism and generally understandable scientific journalism. In this capacity he worked from 1935 to 1945 in Berlin for the Chemical Industry Economic Group .

After the Second World War , Barth von Wehrenalp was co-editor of the magazine Chemische Industrie in 1949 - together with Siegfried Balke .

On November 25, 1950, Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp founded Econ Verlag in the press house on Düsseldorf's Martin-Luther-Platz . Due to his success, the publisher is considered to be the inventor of the German non-fiction book . After selling his shares in the publishing house in 1981, Barth von Wehrenalp returned to Austria.

His grave is on the Père Lachaise in Paris.

Publications

author

• War against bacilli and humans. The history of the Rotlauf vaccination. German publishing company, Berlin approx. 1930
• Germany reaches across the equator. A book of Germany's colonies. Then and now. Etthofen, Berlin 1933
• Paint made from charcoal. A feat of chemistry portrayed in a factual report . Cosmos ribbon . Franckh , Stuttgart 1937
• The German economy in the construction of Africa in: Colonies. Greater Germany's claim. The German colonial yearbook 1939. Wilhelm Susserott Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
• The decline of the French natural sciences. The example of chemistry. Writings of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research, No. 62. Junker & Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1940
• On the trail of the Secret Service . Nibelungen, Berlin / Leipzig 1940
• It shouldn't be thought possible. Incredibles from world history. Together with Ulrich Dopatka . Econ, Düsseldorf 1988 ISBN 3-430-19545-4

editor

• Europe looks to Africa. Lühe, Leipzig 1939
• Germans overseas . Lühe, Leipzig 1939
• Century of plastics in words and pictures . Econ, Düsseldorf 1952

Cooperation

• Claus Ungewitter (Ed.): Utilization of the worthless. Limpert, Berlin 1938
• Claus Ungewitter (Ed.): Chemistry in Germany. Retrospect and Prospect. Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1938

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Universities of Berlin and Hildesheim: Non-fiction research
  • About the non-fiction author (PDF; 192 kB)
• Wolfgang Stock: How Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp became "Mister Sachbuch"
• Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)