Eucharist Albrecht Schmid

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Euchar Albrecht Schmid (born August 29, 1884 in Gemünden am Main , † July 15, 1951 in Bad Liebenstein ) was a German lawyer , writer and publisher as well as co-founder and managing director of Karl May Verlag . The publisher, also known as EA Schmid, used the pseudonym Satanello .

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Schmid grew up in Bamberg, where he passed the Abitur in 1903 at the New Gymnasium . He studied philosophy and law first in Bamberg, then in Munich and Erlangen. On December 7, 1907, he received his doctorate with "Acquisition and Maintenance of the Patent" in Erlangen. jur. He then worked as a magazine editor until 1910 - first for the Erlanger Tageblatt, then for the Stuttgart Insurance Association. As a student he became a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Ottonia Munich and Rhenania Erlangen in KV . Schmid admired Karl May very much as early as 1906 . After exchanging letters with him, there was a first meeting in the summer of 1910, followed by another in 1911 when Karl May was passing through Stuttgart. At this meeting, May is said to have expressed his wish that Schmid would become his publisher.

On July 1, 1913, Schmid founded the Karl May Verlag together with Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld and Klara May , which he successfully managed for many years. After being officially registered as managing director, Schmid moved to Radebeul . He ended the pending legal proceedings connected with May's work and collected May's scattered rights in the Karl-May-Verlag. The editions of May's works published here are more or less edited compared to the publications during May's lifetime.

After the death of the writer Robert Kraft , EA Schmid acquired all rights to Kraft's works in order to posthumously publish them from 1918 onwards in the publishing house Haupt & Hammon, which was also acquired for this purpose .

After the Second World War, he relocated the publishing house to Bamberg .

He was married to Katharina Barthel (1898–1974), who did a lot of work for him in later days. Schmid lived in a villa on today's August-Bebel-Straße in Radebeul (see Villa Euchar Albrecht Schmid ). He had four sons: Joachim (1921–2003), Wolfgang (1924–1945), Lothar (1928–2013) and Roland (1930–1990). After EA Schmid's death, his three surviving sons took over the publishing house; today, the grandson Bernhard (* 1962, son of Lothar) runs the Karl May publishing house.

He died on July 15, 1951 during a spa stay in Bad Liebenstein Thuringia from the consequences of an accident. He was buried in the Radebeul-Ost cemetery, later a transfer took place to Bamberg, where the grave statue created by Selmar Werner is located.

source

  • Euchar Albrecht Schmid: My Life and Striving [1921]. In: Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg (ed.): 50 years of publishing work for Karl May and his work [Festschrift] , Bamberg: Karl-May-Verlag 1963, pp. 13-22.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Hausmann: Euchar Albrecht Schmid saved Winnetou and Kara Ben Nemsi from being forgotten. In: mainpost.de. July 25, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Dieter Sudhoff, Hans-Dieter Steinmetz: Karl-May-Chronik IV . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2005, ISBN 3-7802-0174-7 , p. 327 .
  3. ^ Lothar Braun: Euchar Albrecht Schmid . In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 5th part (=  Revocatio historiae . Volume 6 ). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9 , p. 109 .
  4. ↑ Dr. EA Schmid on his 120th birthday ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karl-may-stiftung.de
  5. ^ Robert Kraft - Karl-May-Wiki. In: karl-may-wiki.de. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ Karl-May-Verlag. In: karl-may.de. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Euchar Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, EA; Satanello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1951
Place of death Bad Liebenstein