Heinz Heise (publisher)

Bust of Heinz Heise in the foyer of the publishing house in Hanover

Heinz Heise (born March 29, 1902 in Hanover ; † November 5, 1974 ibid) was a German publisher and founder of the Heinz-Heise-Verlag .

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In 1924, Heinz Heise became an authorized signatory in the Mitteldeutsche Verlagsaktiengesellschaft ( Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ) and in the Kirchner print shop in Erfurt . In 1926 he married Lotte Asimont , born in Wartenburg / East Prussia, in Königsberg . The marriage had four children. In 1928 Heise became a member of the board of the Kirchner printing company, and in 1931 director of the Mitteldeutsche Verlagsaktiengesellschaft. In 1938 Heise moved to Eger in the Sudetenland, where he redeveloped the local newspaper. In 1941, the family moved to Riga , where the uk -gestellte Heise front newspapers Wehrmacht had verlegerisch provide support. In 1944 he was in Bucharest with this task , where he was interned by Romania after the coup in summer 1944 and extradited to the Red Army . He was used for forced labor in Ukraine. In 1946 Heise managed to get Transylvanian Saxons to Frankfurt am Main on a transport .

Heise then went to his hometown Hanover, now in the British occupation zone . He was followed there in 1946 by his wife with her four children from the Soviet-occupied Erfurt. After there she was evacuated from Riga across the Baltic Sea and Sopot in 1944 .

In 1949, after the currency reform, Heise founded a small directory publishing company in his two-room apartment in Hanover . In 1951, in addition to address books, he also published telephone books for several upper post offices . In 1960 Heise was able to move into his own publishing house in Hannover-Kleefeld . In 1972 the Heinz Heise Hannover KG publishing house published a large number of telephone books, address books, official manuals and labor law literature. Together with branches in Bremen and Frankfurt am Main, the publishing house employed over 100 people in 1972. At the age of 70, Heinz Heise had to resign from work for health reasons. His son Christian Heise , who was already a limited partner in the company, took the place of the father as a personally liable partner. He was supported by his younger brother Friedrich Heise .

Heinz Heise was deeply connected to the city of Erfurt, where he had worked for 14 years and founded his family. His friend Selmar Bühling , a lawyer who fled Erfurt in 1948, founded the Erfurt home loyalty association in West Germany in 1960 . Heise worked out the publishing concept for the Erfurt Heimatbrief (EHB), the association's half-yearly publication from 1961 onwards. He made the first six editions and took care of shipping. He was also always available to the SFIVET with his editorial advice. Heise also took part in the meeting of the Erfurt loyal people from 1961 in Mainz .

In 1974 Heise died in his hometown of Hanover after a two-year serious illness.

literature

• Selmar Bühling: A word about the co-founder of the Erfurt Heimatbrief (Heinz Heise) . Erfurt Heimatbrief No. 24, June 8, 1972, pp. 17-19
• Erfurt Heimatbrief No. 29, December 6, 1974, p. 17
• Christian Heise: Preface to "Letter from Erfurt", editor Rudolf Mohr, Ed .: Verlag Heinz Heise GmbH, Hanover 1992