Karl Heinz Henssel

Karl Heinz Henssel (born July 3, 1917 in Berlin ; † February 8, 2014 there ) was a German publisher . He founded and managed the Karl Heinz Henssel Verlag until 1994 .

Henssel's father was also a publisher, he ran the Paul Franke publishing house . Henssel grew up in a family house that was dominated by books. His brother Egon was murdered by the National Socialists in 1934 as a communist. After an apprenticeship as a printer, he worked as an editor at Rowohlt Verlag and began publishing books himself in 1938. After the war-related interruption, the Allies issued him one of the first printing licenses in 1946. His greatest successes as a publisher in the post-war period were editions of the works of Joachim Ringelnatz , poems by Emily Dickinson , My Left Foot by Christy Brown and the novels by the South African-British author Laurens van der Post .

Karl Heinz Henssel was friends with the pastor Harald Poelchau . After the execution of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , Poelchau and Henssel supported his widow Freya and their children. Henssel encouraged Freya von Moltke to write down her memories and published in his publishing house Last Letters from Tegel Prison by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke as early as 1951 . In 1956 Henssel married Moltke's sister Asta for the second time.

In 1994 Karl Heinz Henssel gave up his publishing house and transferred the rights to the titles to Diogenes Verlag . He died at the age of 96 in his house in Berlin-Wannsee . His grave is in the Schöneberg III cemetery .

Web links

• Literature in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Heinz Henssel died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 11, 2014, p. 4.
2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 3, 2012, p. 12.
3. ↑ Karl Heinz Henssel died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 11, 2014, p. 4.
4. ^ A fine nature , accessed on February 13, 2014