Gotthold Müller

Gotthold Müller (born March 26, 1904 in Potsdam , † June 21, 1993 in Munich ) was a German publisher .

Life

Born in Potsdam, Gotthold Müller, son of the editor-in-chief Dr. Conrad Müller, completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in his hometown in the Hofbuchhandlung Max Jaeckel, in Gotha and in Halle in the bookstore Albert Neubert. After Müller had worked there in his learned profession since the late 1920s, he was appointed sales manager of the Hanseatic publishing house in 1933. In 1936 he switched to Philipp Reclam junior as publishing director . to Leipzig , a position he held until March 1946. Despite his important position, Müller did not join the NSDAP , but was involved in the resistance as a friend of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler .

In 1947 he received the license of Reclam GmbH in Stuttgart , where he acted as managing director until his falling out with Ernst Reclam in 1953. He then took over the management of the Deutsche-Verlags-Anstalt , which he held until 1960. In 1959 he founded Gotthold Müller Verlag in Munich with a focus on contemporary history and Judaica . Müller, who also acted as managing partner of the Siebenstern-Taschenbuch-Verlag from 1963 to 1974, gave up the publishing house in 1980. The six-volume complete edition of Walther Rathenau's writings is considered the main work of the publishing house .

literature

• Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Borsenverein deutscher Verbande: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandels, Volume 30, Issues 23-25, Page 1540.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 261.
• Siegfried Lokatis, Ingrid Sonntag (Ed.): 100 Years of Kiepenheuer Publishing. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-86153-635-2 , page 417.

Web links

• Website of Gotthold Müller's grave, with a photo.