Hans Baedeker
Hans Baedeker (born July 29, 1874 in Leipzig ; † March 4, 1959 there ) was a German publisher and bookseller .
Life
He was the son of the publisher Fritz Baedeker and his wife Flöry (Florentine) Landfermann (1849-1916), daughter of the school councilor Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann and Louise Winter. The publisher Karl Baedeker in Koblenz was his grandfather.
He had four siblings, including the two younger brothers Ernst (1878–1948) and Dietrich (1886–1969), with whom he continued to run the Baedeker publishing house in Leipzig after the death of his father, which had achieved worldwide fame for the publication of travel guides . His brother Karl (1877–1914), however, had become a physicist.
Karl Baedeker attended high school in Leipzig and then studied at the universities of Edinburgh, Geneva and Leipzig. He then went on several educational trips abroad and stayed for a long time in Rome. From 1897 he worked for his father's publishing house, Karl Baedeker .
After the end of the Second World War, despite the difficult circumstances, the publisher succeeded in working with the Bibliographical Institute in Leipzig in 1948 to publish a volume about Leipzig in the Baedeker-Stadtführer series, which had been planned before the war and of which six editions had appeared by 2002. The author of this publication was Hans Baedeker, who was not mentioned in the first edition. Due to the entry of the location of the Soviet military administration in an enclosed city map of Leipzig in the city guide, the not yet sold holdings had to be provided with a retouched map after their intervention , from which the object description had been deleted. In this context, Hans Baedeker was briefly imprisoned.
Hans Baedeker died in 1959 and was buried in the Leipzig Südfriedhof (VI. Section).
family
He married Martha Engelmann in Leipzig on April 29, 1902, who came from an old Leipzig bookseller family.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 49.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Müller: The world of Baedeker. A media culture history of the travel guide 1830-1945 , 2012, page 52.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baedeker, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baedeker, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1959 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |