Georg Paetel

Georg Paetel (born August 19, 1871 in Berlin ; † April 27, 1936 there ) was a German publisher and bookseller. He came from the Paetel publishing family and was the owner of the old Gebrüder Paetel publishing house .

Life

Paetel studied philosophy at the Université de Lausanne , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin (today's Humboldt University ) and the Philipps University in Marburg . During his studies in Lausanne he became active at the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne . After completing his studies, he entered the military as a volunteer in the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment . He then wrote his dissertation on the subject of "The Organization of the Hessian Army under Philip the Magnanimous " and was awarded a doctorate in Marburg in 1897. phil. PhD. In 1898 he married Hildegard geb. Borstell.

As early as 1899 he became a partner and after the death of his father, the publisher and secret commercial advisor Erwin Paetel, in 1907 he became the sole owner of the Gebrüder Paetel publishing house in Berlin. The publishing house was founded in 1870 by his father and uncle Dr. Hermann Paetel founded. In addition, since 1931 he was managing director and partner of the Dr. Georg Paetel Verlag GmbH. For more than 50 years, the Gebrüder Paetel Verlag published the scientific and literary magazine “ Deutsche Rundschau ”, in which u. a. Theodor Fontane had published his Effi Briest and Theodor Storm his Schimmelreiter . In addition, the publishing house had published all of Theodor Storm's works in addition to Westermann-Verlag .

Since 1906 Paetel was repeatedly chairman of the "Association of Berlin Booksellers" and the "Support Association of German Booksellers and Bookstore Assistants" . From 1918 to 1924 he was the first chairman of the "German Publishers' Association" . Together with Walter de Gruyter , Oskar Siebeck , Fritz Springer and Eduard Urban , he campaigned for the strengthening of the position of the German publishers' association within the German book trade and pleaded for a separation from the German book trade association .

In 1922, together with 6 other publishers, he founded the "Booksellers' Settlement Cooperative" (BAG) in Berlin , which restructured the outdated accounting in the book, art and music trade and, together with the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt in Leipzig, a kind of clearing house for cashless Establish settlement of payments between publishers and retail booksellers. In the Provisional National Economic Council Paetel represented the bookstore later.

The period of the economic crisis from 1914 to 1923 brought with it high inflation and plunged many branches of economic life, but especially those that dealt with intellectual and cultural goods, into a severe crisis. In addition to looking after his own publishing business, Paetel put all his might to the interests of the German book trade and made a significant contribution to the German book trade being able to survive this crisis.

Awards

For his services he received the Knight's Cross of the Saxon-Weimar House Order and the Prussian Order of the Crown .

Publications

• Georg Paetel: The Organization of the Hessian Army under Philip the Magnanimous , 1897 (dissertation)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Jäger , Dieter Langewiesche , Wolfram Siemann : History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Walter de Gruyter, 2001. p. 241.
2. ^ Georg Jäger, Dieter Langewiesche, Wolfram Siemann: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Walter de Gruyter, 2001. p. 243.
3. ^ Georg Jäger, Dieter Langewiesche, Wolfram Siemann: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Walter de Gruyter, 2001. p. 87.