Hildegard Claassen
Hildegard (Hilde) Claassen (born April 21, 1897 in Linnich ; † February 16, 1988 in Hamburg ; born Brüggemann ) was a German art historian and publisher.
Life
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Hildegard Claassen - daughter of a pastor - attended a grammar school in Aachen from 1913 to 1916 . She then studied German , Romance studies and art history at the University of Munich . From 1921 to 1925 she ran an art gallery in Munich and Berlin. She then moved to Frankfurt am Main and married the publisher Eugen Claassen , who ran the Societäts-Verlag . In 1934 her husband founded the H.Goverts Verlag in Hamburg together with Henry Goverts . She was an employee of the publishing house.
After the death of Eugen Claassen in 1955, she continued to run the publishing house and made a special contribution to German editions by Italian authors. In 1967 she sold it to Econ Verlag , but stayed on as chief editor at the publishing house. In 1967 she was awarded the 1st Class Cross of Merit.
Hildegard Claassen died in Hamburg in 1988; she was buried next to her husband in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , Planquadrat AB 23, 091-3 (west of Chapel 6). The tombstone created by the German sculptor Hans Martin Ruwoldt has been in the women's garden since April 2020 .
Honors
- 1967: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Hildegard Claassen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry at "hamburg.de/frauenbiografien"
Individual evidence
- ^ Rita Bak: Hildegard Claassen State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, hamburg.de, accessed on November 19, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claassen, Hildegard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brüggemann, Hildegard (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linnich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |