Gustav Braunbeck

Gustav Braunbeck (born June 6, 1866 in Neckargartach ; † April 29, 1928 in Heilbronn ) was a German athlete , publisher , non-fiction author and editor .

Life

Gustav Brown Beck was the older brother of writer Richard Brown Beck and the son of the merchant Johann Friedrich Braun Beck , who in the late 1860s with his family to Heilbronn moved where the father in the Lohtorstraße 14 at the time a " colportage - and railway - Bookstore led, which also offered tobacco products and fire lighters, insurance, liqueurs and the Heilbronner city ​​newspaper .

The young Gustav Braunbeck soon proved to be as enterprising as his father and flexible as his range of products: At a young age, he built a velodrome in Stuttgart , which was then used, for example, by the young driver Hellmuth Hirth .

Gustav Braunbeck was a German and European champion three times in a row at the early " low wheel art championships " before turning to motorsport in 1893 .

In April 1899 Braunbeck was one of the co-founders of the Württemberg Automobile Club 1899 together with Gottlieb Daimler . In September of the same year Braunbeck was in Berlin at what was then the Hotel Savoy when the German Automobile Association was constituted . Only a little later, in 1900 in Berlin, he initiated the “ Oldtimer -verein” Allgemeine Schnauferl-Club (ASC), whose first president he became, and whose association organ Das Schnauferl he founded in 1901 and published by Gustav Braunbeck GmbH . From 1901 to 1908 Braunbeck's brother Richard was the editor of the work . In 1903 he co-founded the Munich Automobile Club in Munich .

For the Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung (AAZ) founded by Adolf Schmal in Vienna in 1900 , Braunbeck initially took over the distribution of the German edition until he took over it in 1904.

In the meantime Gustav Braunbeck had become "[...] General Director of the United Publishing Houses Gustav Braunbeck & Gutenberg - Druckerei Akt.-Ges., Berlin W. 35".

When in 1906 several dozen members of the newly founded German Motorboat Club (DMC) merged to form a " Wannsee Department " with its own board, chaired by Rittmeister a. D. Sholto Douglas and Gustav Braunbeck took over as deputies, the Motor-Yacht-Club von Deutschland (MYCvD) was founded on June 20, 1907 after differences of opinion due to possible networking with the boat and engine industry , of which Braunbeck was also one of the founding members.

In 1910 Gustav Braunbeck became a member of the supervisory board of the German Air Transport Company . In the same year he published Braunbeck's Sport-Lexikon , a work with more than 1,500 pages on the subjects of automobilism, motorboat business and the airship industry of the time, in which he, in addition to the German sports, technology and economic histories, on the subjects of "[... ] also took into account the developments abroad and [...] the merits of designers, drivers, aircraft, balloon and motor boat pilots regardless of the nation ”.

Fonts (selection)

• Official Guide to the Gordon Bennett Race June 17, 1904 and Associated Official Celebrations , 1904
• Braunbeck's Sport Lexicon , Berlin 1910
• Engine. Monthly magazine for motor traffic economy and technology. Sole official journal of the RKI , from 1913
• Braunbeck's address book for the motor vehicle and related industries in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland and Switzerland , from 1922

literature

• Braunbeck, Gustav. In: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, p. 128. ISBN 978-3-110-96157-7 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

• Gustav Braunbeck in the German biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Christhard Schrenk (responsible): Gustav Braunbeck - a Neckargartacher in Berlin , incomplete short vita of the publisher on the website of the Heilbronn City Archives
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Uwe Brodbeck, Horst F. Beilharz, Peter Drescher (Responsible): The ASC / Germany's oldest pure classic car club ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ASC website in the version dated January 19, 2016 
4. ↑ Uwe Brodbeck, Horst F. Beilharz, Peter Drescher (Responsible): Das Schnauferl / Up to date for over 110 years ( memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ASC website in the version dated January 19, 2016 
5. ^ Ulrich Kubisch : The automobile as reading material. On the history of the German motor press , in: Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin , magazine of the Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin and the friends and supporters of the DTMB eV, 25th (49th) year, 2001, pp. 10-14; Reading sample can be downloaded as a PDF document
6. ^ Founding members of the ACM. In: 50 Years Anniversary Chronicle of the Automobil-Club München eV Munich. 1903-1953. Book and art print shop Max Schmidt & Sons, Munich 1953.
7. ↑ Christoph Maria Merki : The journalists and their donors , in which: The bumpy triumph of the automobile 1895 - 1930: on the motorization of road traffic in France, Germany and Switzerland , at the same time habilitation paper 2001 at the University of Bern , Vienna; Cologne; Weimar: Böhlau, 2002, ISBN 3-205-99479-5 , pp. 310-318; here: p. 310, footnote 376; online through google books
8. ↑ MH Bauer: [http% 3A% 2F% 2Fwww.mycvd.de% 2FGeschichte_MYCvD% 2F50_Jahre% 2FFunfzig_Jahre_MYCvD-Text-V3.doc & usg = AFQjCNG2cQ_xXX3ZOSH_bfZ-CuR8JN4Jaw7 - 195 years Motorbike Club of Germany 190 years = 195 years . P. 1f.