Hanns Altermann
Hanns Richard Altermann (born July 8, 1891 in Dresden ; † September 8, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) was a German bookseller, editor, journalist and publisher.
Life
He was born as the son of the railway secretary Edwin Leopold Altermann and his wife Mathilde nee Dressler in the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony . There he attended elementary school and the Reform Realgymnasium. Altermann then took up an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Dresden. He then worked as an assistant in various bookshops in Nuremberg, Hamburg and Düsseldorf. He recently chose the latter city as the center of his life after having worked as an editor in Ludwigshafen from 1912 to 1914 .
After Hans Altermann also worked as an advertising specialist in Düsseldorf for some time, he founded the Hanns Altermann publishing house . As a publisher, he worked with the writer Robert Theuermeister and Lotte Herrlich , whose nudes he published.
In 1920 Hanns Altermann moved to Heilbronn as a publisher , and in 1922 from Heilbronn to Kettwig . He also worked as an editor of books and magazines, for which he himself wrote numerous articles on literature, the youth movement and educational sciences, including the literary magazine The Movement from 1924 to 1925 .
In 1926, Hanns Altermann stopped working at his Lichtkampf publishing house and from then on worked for the company Henkel & Cie., For which, among other things, he published the Henkel papers as editor .
In 1951 Hanns Altermann wrote the autobiography From Salesman to Sales Director . He died in Düsseldorf in early September 1963.
family
Hanns Altermann married Elisabeth born Kossakowski in 1915.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 17.
- Wilhelm Kosch among others: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century, Vol. 1: Aa - Bauer , 2011, p. 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf . A song of becoming in 30 nature shots. Accompanying words by Magnus Weidemann . Lichtkampf-Verlag (Kettwig-Ruhr), 1924.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Altermann, Hanns |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Altermann, Hanns Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor, journalist and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1963 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |