Hermann von Schroedel-Siemau

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Hermann Günther Alfons Heinrich Rudolf von Schroedel-Siemau (born May 18, 1931 in Halle (Saale) , † December 9, 2007 in Eckernförde ) was a German publisher .

origin

Hermann von Schroedel-Siemau came from a publishing family from Halle (Saale) who was ennobled in 1912. His grandfather, the Kommerzienrat Hermann Louis (von) Schroedel (1864–1943), shortly after he was raised to the nobility in 1918, obtained the right to refer to the family seat, the Untersiemau Castle near Coburg , with the additional part of the name Siemau . After 1945, under the father Joachim von Schroedel-Siemau (1901–1963), the seat of the Schroedel publishing house was moved from Halle to Hanover . His mother was Renate Freiin von Baillou (* 1904).

education

Schroedel-Siemau passed his Abitur in 1950 in the Marquartstein Landschulheim , trained as a publishing bookseller with Ferdinand Schöningh in Osnabrück and studied law and economics at the universities of Göttingen , Bonn and Münster . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera .

job

In 1961 he joined the family at the school book publisher Hermann Schroedel KG - the roots of which can be traced back to the Kümmelsche assortment and publishing bookstore founded in 1792 - and in 1963 he became its managing partner. Under his leadership, the company developed into one of the largest German textbook publishers with a special focus on German, mathematics and natural sciences. With an annual turnover of around 180 million DM, Hermann Schroedel KG was temporarily - after the scientific Springer Verlag - the largest publisher in Germany.

At the beginning of 1982, the publishing house was transferred to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group , which continued it under the new publishing director Werner Kugel (* 1933) as Schroedel Schulbuchverlag GmbH .

Further commitment

From 1992 Hermann von Schroedel-Siemau got involved again in his hometown Halle (Saale) and retired in 1998.

Hermann von Schroedel was chairman of the supervisory board and founding member of the Institute for Educational Media until 1981 . As a scout , he was a committed member of the German youth movement and a personal sponsor of their facilities at Ludwigstein Castle . The youth exchange between Germany and Spain, but also with Finland, was based on his initiative , especially in the field of sailing, and was associated with a sailing school in Fleckeby an der Schlei , which he set up as an enthusiastic sea sailor and which provided the necessary seamanship .

literature

  • August Fryen: Joachim v. Schroedel-Siemau on his 60th birthday on May 11, 1961 and on the 40th anniversary of the publisher. Schroedel-Verlag Hannover 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 323.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Würfel: Lexikon Deutsche Verlage, Verlag Grotesk Berlin 2000, pages 777-778
  3. ↑ See Börsenblatt
personal data
SURNAME Schroedel-Siemau, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroedel-Siemau, Hermann Günther Alfons Heinrich Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2007
Place of death Eckernförde