Helmut Bähring

Helmut Bähring (born February 12, 1923 in Weimar ; † April 30, 2002 in Leipzig ) was a German publishing director in the GDR .

Life

Bähring learned the profession of publishing clerk in Weimar from 1937 to 1939 . From 1941 to 1945 he fought in the German Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1945. In 1946 Bähring, who worked as a construction worker until 1947 , joined the SED .

In 1947 Bähring became a trainee in the Thuringia state printing plant in Weimar, where he was head of the publishing department until 1951. In 1952 he completed a course for publishing staff at the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR) in Potsdam and was then publishing director at Vordruck-Leitverlag in Magdeburg until 1957 . From 1955 to 1960 Bähring studied financial economics at the Berlin School of Economics (HfÖ) and graduated .

From 1957 to 1962 Bähring was director of Wilhelm-Knapp-Verlag, later Fotokinoverlag , in Halle (Saale) and from 1962 to 1976 director of Edition Leipzig . In 1976, Bähring succeeded Heinz Köhler as head of the Bibliographical Institute and publishing house Enzyklopädie Leipzig .

In 1991/92 Bähring was managing director of the Bibliographische Institute Leipzig GmbH and the Brockhaus-Verlag GmbH in Leipzig and went into early retirement in 1993 .

Bähring was a long-time member of the publishers' committee and the board of directors of the German Booksellers Association in Leipzig and a founding member of the board of trustees Haus des Buches in Leipzig.

Honors

• 1977 Wilhelm Bracke Medal from the Leipzig Stock Exchange Association
• 1998 Golden needle of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Association

Works

• Helmut Bähring, K. Rüddiger: Lexicon book city Leipzig . Taucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0 .

literature

• Frank Wagner:  Helmut Bähring . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Literature by and about Helmut Bähring in the catalog of the German National Library