Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel

Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (born May 18, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German publisher.

Life

Holzapfel was born as the son of the publisher Adolf Holzapfel . After his death in 1958, he took over the Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt (NDV) founded by his father . Under his leadership, the company increasingly specialized in manuals in the field of politics. In 1971 the company headquarters were relocated to Rheinbreitbach .

In addition to Kürschner's Volks Handbuch Deutscher Bundestag, manuals on the German state parliaments and the European Parliament were published. In 1990 a people's handbook appeared with the biographies of the members of the first freely elected People's Chamber . In cooperation with the WDR school television, the NDV published accompanying material. In 1998 she started the biographical database politikus.de on the Internet.

At the beginning of the 2000s he gradually withdrew from the operational business of the publishing house and handed over the management to his son Andreas. He lives in Linz on the Rhine .

Honors

• 2011: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  for his great services to political education