Hans Bud

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Photohaus Knospe in Sellin

Hans Knospe (born August 3, 1899 in Soldin , † April 14, 1999 in Sellin ) was a German photographer .

Life

Hans Knospe was the son of the photographer Otto Knospe. He learned the profession of photographer in the photo studio founded in Soldin (Neumark) in 1903 . In 1916 the family moved to Sellin on the island of Rügen in Wilhelmstrasse. In the same year, Hans Knospe received his first SLR camera. On November 8, 1924, he took over his father's studio and married in the same year. With countless photographs of the pier, beach life and the joys of bathing, which he self-published on postcards, he made a significant contribution to the promotion of tourism in Sellin and on Rügen. He also filmed and then presented the recordings in public. On March 24, 1924, he documented the pier collapsing due to the ice drift and later its reconstruction.

In the winter months he stayed with his wife Wanda in the Ore Mountains . Here, too, he photographed the tourists who were then able to purchase these photos. In the 1920s he founded a photo house in Oberwiesenthal and thus also promoted tourism and winter sports by issuing photo postcards.

During the Second World War , Hans Knospe worked in the Wehrmacht picture post in Stettin . After the end of the war the family lived in Oberwiesenthal. In 1953 she returned to Sellin and Hans Knospe reopened his photo business. He ran the studio until 1973. After his favorite motif, the pier, was torn down in 1978, he campaigned for a reconstruction and made his historical photos available. These formed an essential basis for the reconstruction, as the old building plans no longer existed. At the age of 99, Hans Knospe was present at the grand opening of the new pier in 1998.

Honors

  • August 3, 1994 Appointment as first honorary citizen of Sellin
  • Memorial plaques on the pier and in the Photohaus Knospe in Sellin

Movie

  • Beach life - the history of the German seaside resorts. At the Baltic Sea , NDR 2012

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5156 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beach life - The history of the German seaside resorts, Part 1: On the Baltic Sea Coast, two-part Radio Bremen documentary by Reinhard Joksch and Eckart Granitza, 2012, (in which Knospe himself speaks as a contemporary witness and shows several photos and film recordings of him. )
personal data
SURNAME Bud, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Soldin, now Myślibórz in Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1999
Place of death Sellin