Gustav Pezold (publisher)

Gustav Nikolaus Pezold (born April 27, 1891 in Friedrichshafen , † December 13, 1961 in Schorndorf , Württemberg ) was a German publisher and frigate captain of the reserve .

Live and act

In 1909 Pezold joined the Imperial Navy , in which he made it up to first lieutenant at sea . During the First World War , after completing his submarine training, he was an officer on watch on SM U 49 from May 1916 . From October to December 1917, as commander of the auxiliary ship S.MH Equity, he carried out two secret arms transports to Russian Finland . Then Petzold served on the Great Cruiser Derfflinger again as a watch officer until the end of the war and retired on November 24, 1919 from the Reichsmarine and promoted to lieutenant captain. In 1920 Pezold acquired together withRichard Jordan founded the Osiander bookstore in Tübingen . At that time he was politically close to Hermann Ehrhardt , who gave him command of the Consul organization in Tübingen.

In 1930, at the suggestion of Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer , Pezold became head of Georg Müller Verlag. In 1931 this was merged with Albert Langen Verlag to form Langen Müller Verlag , in which Pezold took over the post of director, which he was to keep until 1938. As a publisher, Pezold was able to win Knut Hamsun as authors, among others . Hans Grimm later wrote that Pezold, as a "work-happy, soldier" figure, was at the "head of the best and cleanest poet publisher" "that Germany has had for a number of years."

Shortly after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Pezold published the essay Literature and the Book Trade and their Significance in the Life of the Nation , which was largely integrated into the National Socialists' understanding of literature by presenting himself as an advocate of "folk poetry" and opponent of "literary works that were alien to the people and hostile to life" . He achieved particular success with the literary magazine Das Innere Reich, which he founded .

In January 1938, after friction with the leadership of the German Labor Front (DAF), which had owned Langen-Müller Verlag since 1933 , Pezold was relieved of his post as publishing director by the publisher's board of directors. During the Second World War , Pezold was a naval officer in France (Atlantic) and Wiesbaden and was retired as a frigate captain at the end of 1944 after his four sons died in war.

After 1945 Pezold made himself available to the trustee of the Langen-Müller Verlag Templer as a freelancer for 350 RM and without employment.

Pezold's estate is now stored in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Fonts

• The gunship. Secret weapons rides with SMH "Equity" for Finland's struggle for freedom in autumn 1918 . Dulk, Hamburg 1943. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .

literature

• Johannes Öhquist: The lion banner. The Finnish People's Rise to Freedom , Berlin (German Publishing Society for Politics and History) 1923, 2nd edition, ibid. 1942.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marbacher Magazin 26/1983, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 1984, p. 10.
2. ↑ Hans Grimm: Hope and Search , 1960, p. 122.
3. ↑ Not until after 1933 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1950, pp. 36-38 ( Online - Dec. 25, 1950 ).
4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html