Hermann Leins

Hermann Leins (born May 25, 1899 in Stuttgart , † July 18, 1977 in Reutlingen ) was a German bookseller and publisher.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1919, Hermann Leins, the son of the Stuttgart classical philologist Johannes Leins (1858–1904), learned his trade with Mohr, Siebeck and Osiander in Tübingen , Gustav Fischer in Jena and Brandstetter in Leipzig . Hermann Leins published together with Elisabeth Witzel in the Tübingen publishing house Rainer Wunderlich , which was founded in Bremen in 1913 . In 1926 “ Inner Etters” appeared, a selection of the stories by Hermann Kurz with an introduction by his daughter Isolde Kurz and in 1931 her bestseller “Vanadis. A woman's path of fate ” . From 1933 he published a large part of Gertrud Bäumer's works , in 1934 the letter novel " Das Herz ist wach" ( The heart is awake) by his future mother-in-law Gertrud von Sanden , in 1937 the first novel by the reform pedagogue and writer Hans Löscher and in 1938 the bestseller "Perdita" by his later wife Isabel Hamer . Leins refused to join the National Socialist German Workers' Party and was prohibited from publishing from 1944.

In 1945 Hermann Leins was allowed to work again as the first publisher in the French occupation zone . Thematically, works on sociology , contemporary history and theology were added. Theodor Heuss , Elly Heuss-Knapp , Reinhold Maier , Toni Stolper , Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Hans Blickensdörfer became new authors .

Since 1945 Hermann Leins managed the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , the JB Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung and the Carl Ernst Poeschel publishing house in trust. Since 1965 he was the sole owner of the latter two publishing houses.

Hermann Leins emerged as editor, for example with an anthology on statements about Gustav Mahler .

The book graphic artists Karl Keidel, Ernst Schneider and Walter Brudi designed the publishing house products.

Hermann Leins and Isabel Hamer married in 1939. The couple lived in Reutlingen and had two daughters - Dorothea (* 1940) and Editha (* 1942).

Honors

1963 Doctor rer. pole. (rerum politicarum - Doctor of Political Science and Economics) hc from the University of Cologne
1966 honorary professor in Baden-Württemberg

literature

Ernst Metelmann: Leins, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 147 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Publishing license
^ Hermann Leins (eds.): Arnold Schönberg , Ernst Bloch , Otto Klemperer , Erwin Ratz , Hans Mayer , Dieter Schnebel , Theodor W. Adorno about Gustav Mahler. Rainer Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1966 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Leins, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 1977
Place of death	Reutlingen

[1] Publishing license

[2] Hermann Leins (eds.): Arnold Schönberg , Ernst Bloch , Otto Klemperer , Erwin Ratz , Hans Mayer , Dieter Schnebel , Theodor W. Adorno about Gustav Mahler. Rainer Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1966 ( digitized version )