Hans-Dietrich Müller-Grote

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Hans-Dietrich Müller-Grote (born April 21, 1910 in Neubabelsberg , † after 1990 ) was a German publisher.

Life

Müller-Grote first attended the Althoff secondary school in Nowawes. He then studied art history, German literary history and history in Berlin , Lausanne and Marburg until 1932 without obtaining a degree. In 1932 Müller-Grote volunteered at a bookshop in Vienna .

In the winter of 1932 Müller-Grote started in the Groteschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, a publishing house founded by his great-grandfather Carl Müller-Grote (1833–1904) in Hamm in 1849 , which had been based in Berlin since 1877 and was founded in 1905 by his father Gustav Müller-Grote ( 1867–1949) to collaborate. In 1935 he became a partner in the publishing house.

During the time of National Socialism , Müller-Grote was part of the Reiter-SS . As a cavalry SS man, on June 30, 1934, he witnessed numerous shootings on the grounds of the SS cadet facility in Lichterfelde during the Röhm putsch .

After the death of Gustav Müller-Grote in 1949, Hans-Dietrich Müller Grote continued to run the publishing house as an OHG in Hamm. In 1957 the company was reorganized as a limited partnership with a new publishing house in Rastatt, Baden . In the documentation of German-language publishers from the 1960s, Eleonore Müller-Grote and Erich Pabel were also named as co-owners of the publishing house.

Gert Buchheit , Karl Eska, Edith Eucken-Erdsiek , Fritz Tobias , Herbert Wendt , Roland Betsch , Peter Dörfler , Heinrich Federer , Gustav Frenssen , Ruth Schaumann , Julius Stinde and Ernst von Wildenbruch were named as the main authors of the publishing house in the 1960s .

In the 1950s, Müller-Grote worked on an honorary basis in the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association, in the publishers' committee and in the assembly of representatives of the German Book Trade Association.

Müller-Grote was married and had three sons and a daughter.

Villa Grote, (also called Truman Villa ) in Potsdamer Karl-Marx-Straße 1

Fonts

  • Memories of June 30, 1934 , minutes of March 19, 1968, unpublished, received a. a. in the Federal Archives Koblenz.

literature

  • Curt Vinz (Hrsg.): Documentation of German language publishers , Vol. 1, Munich 1968, p. 81f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels , 1990, p. 3472 congratulates him on his 80th birthday
  2. ^ Benjamin Carter Hett , "This Story Is About Something Fundamental". Nazi Criminals, History, Memory, and the [Reichstagbrand | Reichstag Fire] , in: Central European History Jg. 48, 2015, p. 211.
  3. ↑ The book about the Reichstag fire was first published by Grote in 1962, cf. Carter Hett, Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery. Oxford University Press 2014, ISBN 0199322325 . The book can be viewed on the American Amazon website
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Grote, Hans-Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubabelsberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1990