Gert Frederking

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Gert Frederking (born May 9, 1938 ; died February 1, 2019 ) was a German publisher .

Life

After training in bookselling at the Academic Bookstore in Munich , Frederking became sales manager at Molden Verlag in the 1970s and, in 1977, head of Goldmann Verlag, which had just been taken over by Bertelsmann at the time . After leaving Goldmann, he founded the Frederking & Thaler publishing house with his wife Monika Thaler . From 1990 to 1999 he was program director of the Bertelsmann Club .

Frederking was involved in the working group for literary and non-fiction book publishers , the working group for book clubs and in the Bavarian State Association of the Börsenverein .

In 2019 he died at the age of 80 after a long illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gert Frederking (80) , report on Buchmarkt.de from May 9, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus G. Saur : Publisher Gert Frederking is dead , article on Börsenblatt.net from February 7, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Frederking, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1938
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 2019