Gustav Eduard Nolte (politician, 1812)

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Gustav Eduard Nolte (born May 30, 1812 in Lüneburg , † December 11, 1885 in Hamburg ) was a German bookseller , publisher and member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

From 1827 Nolte did a book trade apprenticeship in the Herold bookstore with his uncle Johann Gottlieb Herold in Hamburg. The Heroldsche Buchhandlung continued the business originally founded by Gottfried Vollmer . He then worked there, from 1836 to 1839 he worked in the bookstore Gräfe & Unzer in Königsberg . In 1839 Nolte became a partner, in 1840 sole owner of the Heroldschen bookstore. The Hamburg fire in May 1842 destroyed the business except for the handbooks, which could only be saved with great difficulty; only the Leipzig warehouse was left of the publishing house. As a replacement, Nolte tried to expand the range business. In the publishing house he concentrated on works of pedagogy, commercial science and evangelical theology. He sold the popular medicine part of the publishing house in 1842 to Ernst Quedlinburg, the novels in the same year in 1842 to E. Schäfer and in 1855 the writings for young people to August Bagel in Wesel . The widow Herold left her share of the business to her nephew Richard Köhler in 1847, who joined the company as an open partner in 1854. While the bookstore remained with the traditional Heroldsche Buchhandlung company, the publisher later traded as Nolte & Köhler . Köhler died in 1859, however, and Nolte took over both business departments, product range and publishing, alone. The publishing house now operated under the name Gustav Eduard Nolte .

Nolte was active in various functions in the self-administration of the St. Petri parish. From 1848 to 1852 he was captain of the 1st company of the 3rd battalion of the citizen military and from 1858 to 1862 citizen military commissar. For many years he was a member of the board of directors of the Patriotic Society of 1765 .

Nolte belonged to the Hamburg citizenship from 1859 to 1862 and from 1868 to 1870.

He died suddenly from an unfortunate fall . After his death, both businesses were passed on to his widow, who in 1886 sold the range, the Herold'sche Buchhandlung, to Justus Pape (* 1851), while she continued to run the publishing house under the company that had been there ever since. In 1887, Pape also took over the GE Nolte publishing house and reunited it with the bookstore under the joint company Herold'sche Buchhandlung .

family

He married Minna Geffcken (1823–1886), a daughter of Heinrich Geffcken , on May 8, 1845 . Gustav Eduard Nolte was one of his children.

portrait

A picture of Nolte is in the German Museum of Books and Writing, portrait collection of the Börsenverein library.

literature

  • Nolte, Gustav Eberhard , in: Karl Friedrich Pfau : Bibliographical Lexicon of the German Book Trade of the Present. Leipzig: Pfau 1890, Sp. 272f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg Gender Book 16, (DGB 210) 2000, p. 226
  2. ↑ a b Wilhelm Heyden : The members of the Hamburg citizenship. 1859-1862 , Hamburg 1909, p. 93
  3. ↑ peacock (lit.)
  4. ^ Portrait of Gustav Eduard Nolte (1812 - 1885). portraitindex.de. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nolte, Gustav Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1885
Place of death Hamburg