Fritz Hess (bookseller)

Fritz Hess (* 2. October 1901 in Engelberg , † 28 / 29. August 1991 ; heimatberechtigt in Engelberg) was a Swiss bookstore manager .

Life

The son of the stationery dealer Robert Hess attended middle school and trade school. In the 1930s he organized "a meeting of young, oppositional booksellers" together with Herbert Lang , Werner Krebser and Adolf Lüthy in the spirit of intellectual national defense . They “probably linked economic and political issues” in the Swiss bookselling industry for the first time. From 1935 to 1937 Hess was President of the Swiss Book Dealers Association . From 1937 to 1967 he was managing director of the Swiss Association Assortment , the purchasing cooperative of Swiss booksellers.

Hess was married to Bertha Hess-Zimmermann from 1937 and had three children.

Publications (selection)

• The economic side of the range. Swiss Booksellers Association, Zurich 1943, 19 pages.
• People, books and eventful times: half a century of the Swiss book trade. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1970, 213 pages.
• Open to every irreproachable man: 125 years of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Volume 30, 1974, pp. 1854-1857 (with 2 illustrations).

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Hess in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Swiss biographical archive . Volume 4, page 66.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Death notice of the family, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 30, 1991.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Who’s who in Switzerland, including the Principality of Liechtenstein . Edition 1984/85. P. 248.
4. ^ Franziska Schläpfer: For over 160 years for the cause of the book. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Abridged version from the commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the SBVV ( Book Industry in Transition. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1999).