Gerhard Hentrich

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Gravestone of the Hentrich family in the Steglitz cemetery

Gerhard Hentrich (born May 6, 1924 in Berlin ; died September 19, 2009 there ) was a German publisher and founder and director of the publishing houses Edition Hentrich and Hentrich & Hentrich .

life and work

Hentrich grew up in Berlin and actually wanted to study law, but as the son of a Jewish woman he was denied that. His father had to do forced labor . He himself was drafted into the military after graduating from high school and was seriously wounded a year before the end of the war .

In 1948 he and his father opened a small print shop in Steglitz , which was expanded in the early 1950s and moved to Albrechtstrasse in West Berlin. Edition Hentrich was founded there in 1981 , which he had to sell in the early 1990s.

In autumn 1998 he and his son Harald Hentrich founded the publishing house Hentrich & Hentrich, which was based in Teetz , Brandenburg , where Harald Hentrich ran the Hennwack second-hand bookshop, which is now located in Berlin-Steglitz . The publishing house Hentrich & Hentrich was taken over by Nora Pester in 2009 . Gerhard Hentrich, who had already published the series Books against Forgetting and Repression since 1982 , devoted himself to the subject of National Socialist persecution and the fate of German Jews in his publishing activities with a small staff.

The series of Jewish miniatures with biographies of Albert Einstein , Max Liebermann , Victor Klemperer and Friedrich Wolf as well as Jewish memoirs were created under his leadership , and he published the Centrum Judaicum series of publications .

The memories of concentration camp prisoner Adolf Burger Des Teufels Werkstatt about the Nazis' counterfeiting workshop in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , which he brought out, were filmed in Austria by Stefan Ruzowitzky under the title Die Fälscher .

Gerhard Hentrich did not live to see the 100th volume of Jewish miniatures appear. He died on September 19, 2009 at the age of 85 in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Simon : Gerhard Hentrich was a restless person. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 21, 2009 (obituary), accessed September 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Mechthild Henneke: Harald Hentrich brought 70,000 books and a lot of ideas from Berlin to Prignitz. The Goethe is in the taproom. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 9, 1999.
  3. ^ Sara R. Gallardo: Por los cafés literarios de Berlín. In: El País . April 17, 2013 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Hentrich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher (Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag)
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2009
Place of death Berlin