Franz Leuwer

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Franz Hendrik Hubert Leuwer (born August 9, 1875 , † April 9, 1916 in Bremen ) was a German publisher and entrepreneur.

Life

Franz Leuwer was born on August 9, 1875 in the Eifel ; he died on April 9, 1916 in Bremen.

In 1911 he married the dentist Johanna Neumark . Both lived in Bremen at Bismarckstrasse 51. The marriage had two children: Elisabeth Wilhelmine and Franz Josef. Elisabeth (Lisa) had emigrated to London in 1935 and Franz Leuwer, who later called himself Frank Lynder , also emigrated there in 1938. Johanna Leuwer herself could not bring herself to emigrate. “She had to leave her house on Bismarckstrasse and lived briefly in her brother Fritz's apartment at Kurfürstenallee 9 and, most recently, in the Judenhaus at Franz-Liszt-Strasse 11a. On July 23, 1942, at the age of 71, she was deported to Theresienstadt and died there on February 8, 1943 ”.

Book and art shop Franz Leuwer

Franz Leuwer came to Bremen in 1900 and became an authorized signatory in the traditional Otto von Halem bookstore in Bremen's Böttcherstraße . In 1903 he took over the bookstore and founded the book and art store Franz Leuwer under his own name at Bremer Obernstraße 14 with branches in Wangerooge , Borkum and Spiekeroog and also operated numerous log bookstores on passenger ships of the North German Lloyd . His book and art shop, which stood for modern literature as well as modern art, was considered an institution in Bremen's cultural scene. At the same time, Leuwer also operated a lending library that he had taken over from Halem and was a partner in the Bremen Reading Circle GmbH.

Publisher Franz Leuwer

Around 1907/8 he also founded a publishing house under his name with a focus on literature, art and travel.

Leuwer's death in 1916

Leuwer died of a heart attack on April 9, 1916. His wife Johanna, as co-founder, was half financially involved and inherited the company when he died early. She handed over the management to the authorized signatory Carl Emil Spiegel, who acquired shares in the business. Right at the beginning of National Socialism in 1933, Norddeutsche Lloyd urged the company to be Aryanized , “because it saw the Jewish owner of the log bookstores as a threat to the shipping company's reputation. The company was transferred to Spiegel in the same year. Anni Leuwer received a monthly pension ”.

The years after 1945 to the present

In 1943 the building on Obernstrasse was so badly damaged by a bomb that the bookstore was initially relocated to Bahnhofstrasse. In 1948 the business was reopened on the foundations of the destroyed Hillmanns Hotel; the art shop was moved to different locations one after the other, most recently to the street Bischofsnadel. In 1962, the bookstore moved into the new rooms at Am Wall 171 under the management of the managing bookseller Werner Siebert. Angelika and Klaus Plückebaum took over the bookstore here in 1984 and “continue the company's line of tradition to this day. It is no coincidence that they left the name Franz Leuwer on the facade ”. Angelika Plückebaum has been running the bookstore since Klaus Plückebaum's death in 2015.

literature

  • Nils Aschenbeck: 100 years of book and art dealer Franz Leuwer. With a contribution by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Donat (um) 2003, ISBN 978-3-934836-62-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://d-nb.info/gnd/116959843
  2. ↑ http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=135&tomb=4003&b=&lang=de
  3. ↑ a b http://www.stolpersteine-bremen.de/detail.php?id=285
  4. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: 100 years of book and art dealer Franz Leuwer. With a contribution by Erwin Miedtke. Donat, Bremen (um) 2003, pp. 8-13, ISBN 978-3-934836-62-4 .
  5. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: 100 years of book and art dealer Franz Leuwer. With a contribution by Erwin Miedtke. Donat, Bremen (um) 2003, p. 19, ISBN 978-3-934836-62-4 .
  6. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?index=tit&term=&operator=and&index=per&term=&operator=and&index=vlg&term=Leuwer%2C+Bremen&operator=and&index=sw&term=&operator=and&index=jhr&term=&index=wvn . & wv = & wvnEnd = 05/18/2018 & method = enhancedSearch
  7. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: 100 years of book and art dealer Franz Leuwer. With a contribution by Erwin Miedtke. Donat, Bremen (um) 2003, p. 28, ISBN 978-3-934836-62-4 .
  8. ↑ http://www.literaturhaus-bremen.de/locations/buch-und-kunsthandlung-leuwer/
personal data
SURNAME Leuwer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuwer, Franz Hendrik Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Eifel
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1916
Place of death Bremen