Hellmuth von Hase

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Siegfried Hellmuth von Hase (born January 30, 1891 in Leipzig ; † October 18, 1979 in Wiesbaden ) was a German publisher and co-owner of the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house ; he was also a Finnish consul .

The coat of arms of the von Hase family (1883)
Grave site of the Oskar von Hase family in the south cemetery in Leipzig
Grave inscription for Hellmuth von Hase

family

He was the son of the Saxon Grand Ducal Privy Councilor Dr. phil. Oskar von Hase (1846–1921), bookseller and head of the Breitkopf & Härtel music publisher in Leipzig, and Johanna Zarncke (1856–1911). Father Oskar received royal Saxon nobility recognition on May 31, 1912 in Dresden . Hase married on June 4, 1920 in Leipzig Elisabeth Bierey (born June 25, 1898 in Pirna , Saxony , † unknown in Wiesbaden), the daughter of Colonel Rudolf Bierey and Eleonore (Leonie) Jansen. His grandfather was the theologian Karl von Hase (1800–1890), who had married Pauline Härtel in 1831, the daughter of the publisher Gottfried Christoph Härtel .

Life

Hase, who holds a doctorate in law, has worked for the Leipzig music publisher Breitkopf & Härtel since 1919. From 1927 to 1933 he was chairman of the Leipzig Booksellers Association , and from 1929 to 1935 he was also the first treasurer of the German Booksellers Association . In addition, he was chairman of the German Music Publishers Association until 1933 .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he signed the following declaration in the Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel on May 13, 1933 on the occasion of the book burning of authors ostracized in the Nazi regime :

"The board of directors of the German Booksellers' Association has reached an agreement with the Reich leadership of the Kampfbund for German Culture and the Central Office for German Libraries that the twelve writers Lion Feuchtwanger - Ernst Glaeser - Arthur Hollitscher - Alfred Kerr - Egon Erwin Kisch - Emil Ludwig - Heinrich Mann - Ernst Ottwalt - Theodor Plivier - Erich Maria Remarque - Kurt Tucholsky alias Theobals Tiger, Peter Panter, Ignaz Wrobel, Kaspar Hauser - Arnold Zweig are to be regarded as damaging to the German reputation ”.

From 1939 to 1941, Hase did military service as a major in the Wehrmacht . In 1943 he published the Yearbook of German Music on behalf of the music department of the Reich Propaganda Ministry.

After the end of the Second World War , Hase moved the headquarters of Breitkopf & Haertel-Verlag to Wiesbaden in June 1945 . From 1955 to 1960 he was a member of the publishers' committee of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels . In addition, from 1954 to 1967 he was the chairman of the specialist committee for serious music on the board of the German Association of Music Publishers .

Publications (selection)

  • The little simmer . Chronological and systematic index of all musical works by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. Compiled on the basis of the 3rd edition edited by Alfred Einstein , Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden (1951)
  • The Kanon-Kanon (with Gerd Sievers ), Breitkopf & Härtel (1957)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 220.
  2. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Hase, Hellmuth from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hase, Siegfried Hellmuth von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1979
Place of death Wiesbaden