Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter

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Hermann Wilhelm Adolph Karl Schlueter (born January 10, 1846 in Hanover ; † April 13, 1900 there ) was a German printer and manager of the later Schlueter publishing company .

Life

family

The family grave, designed by Karl Gundelach , at the Engesohde city cemetery

Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter was the grandson of the printer Georg Christoph Schlueter and son of Philipp Schlueter . His older brother was Carl Schlueter (May 15, 1813 - February 13, 1897), a younger brother was Wolfgang Schlueter (July 28, 1848 - January 14, 1919). Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter remained without descendants.

Career

Hermann Wilhelm Schlüter completed an apprenticeship as a book printer in Hanover in the landscape printing company run by his father . After gaining experience as an employee in various foreign companies, he took over the family-run printing company as managing director in 1868 after his father and brother Carl had been in dispute over the continuation of the Hannoversche Tageblatt .

Under Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter, the printing company was officially renamed Schlütersche Buchdruckerei in 1878 . A few years after the managing director's death in 1903, it was bought by the businessman Heinrich Ludwig Hartmann .

Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter was buried in the family grave at the Engesohde city cemetery , in Department 25 , graves 25–30 . The tomb there, designed by the sculptor Karl Gundelach , was restored in 1982.

estate

Hermann Wilhelm Schlueter left his collection of Fürstenberg porcelain and numerous works by Johann Heinrich Ramberg to the (today's) Museum August Kestner .

literature

  • Günter Warnecke u. a .: Time travel through a quarter of a millennium: 1747 - 1997. The Chronicle of the Schlütersche , part 2 of the series Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, Hanover: 1747 - 1997 , Hanover: Schlütersche, 1997
  • Hugo Thielen : Schlueter, (3) Hermann Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 544f.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Wilhelm Schlüter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: Schlüter, (3) Hermann Wilhelm ... (see literature)
  2. ^ Karin van Schwartzenberg: Schlüter, Hermann (1846-1900). In: Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde city cemetery , four-page leaflet from the cemetery administration of the state capital Hanover with an overview sketch and a selection of numbered grave sites, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Garkenburgstrasse 43, as of April 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Hermann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Hermann Wilhelm Adolph Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1900
Place of death Hanover