Eugen Salzer

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Carl Eugen Salzer (born September 17, 1866 in Heilbronn ; † April 2, 1938 ibid) was a German publisher who mainly published evangelical-theological, local and regional history literature. The Eugen-Salzer-Verlag , which he founded in Heilbronn in 1891, existed there until 1999.

Life

Salzer grew up in Heilbronn, where he also went to school and trained as a bookseller . After professional positions in Basel and Berlin , he returned to Heilbronn and founded the Eugen-Salzer-Verlag there on October 1, 1891 , which mainly published books on evangelical theological, local and regional history, and since the 1920s increasingly also German Baltic literature. Salzer published books by authors such as Hermann Hesse , Isolde Kurz , August Lämmle and Anna Schieber . In 1912 he started the successful pocket library of German poets , which was renamed Salzers Volksbücherei in 1934. From 1929 onwards, Salzer's son Fritz (1909–1943) also worked in the publishing house, under whose influence Salzer also published National Socialist literature. Eugen Salzer's last publishing project was an extensive intellectual history of the Tübingen monastery , which appeared in 1938 under the title pen heads . After Salzer's death in the same year, Theodor Heuss wrote his obituary.

family

Salzer's father Johann Jakob Salzer (1798–1879) had come to Heilbronn from Dettingen an der Erms , where he and his first wife Elisabeth († 1860) founded a paint shop that developed into a paint factory. The painter Friedrich Salzer (1827–1878) came from this first marriage . In 1864 Johann Jakob Salzer married again, the connection with his second wife Caroline, geb. Haas, comes from Eugen Salzer.

In 1903 Eugen Salzer married the butcher's daughter Elise Wimpff (1875–1972) from Stuttgart. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter, including the sons Fritz (1909–1943) and Hartmut (1916–1993), both of whom later ran the publishing house.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the Eugen-Salzer-Verlag from the Heilbronn city archive , contemporary history collection, HEUSS database, call number ZS-143
  2. ↑ Hartmut Salzer's year of death according to Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, HEUSS database, call number ZS-12909

literature

  • Achim Frey: Salzer, Carl Eugen, publisher in Heilbronn. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume I. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018500-4 , pp. 216-217 ( online ).
  • Uwe Jacobi : 100 years of Salzer. History of a publishing house. Salzer, Heilbronn 1991, ISBN 3-7936-0301-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Salzer, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzer, Carl Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1938
Place of death Heilbronn