Klaus G. Saur

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Klaus G. Saur, November 2011

Klaus Gerhard Saur (born July 27, 1941 in Pullach near Munich) is a German publisher .

Life

Klaus Gerhard Saur was born on July 27, 1941, the first son of Karl-Otto Saur . His father was chief officer in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition . At the end of April 1945, Adolf Hitler named Karl-Otto Saur as the new armaments minister and successor to Albert Speer in his will . After the Second World War , Karl-Otto Saur founded a small publishing house for specialist literature, which Klaus Gerhard Saur took over after leaving business school in 1966.

In 1966, Saur became managing director of the Dokumentations publishing house . In 1978, the KG Saur Verlag , named after Klaus Saur and with subsidiaries in New York, London and Paris, developed from documentation . In 1987 Saur sold the publishing house to Reed-Elsevier, but remained managing director until 2003. In 2005 he became managing partner and chairman of the management at Walter de Gruyter , and since 2006 he has been the sole managing director. On September 30th, 2008, Saur left De Gruyter to retire. Under Saur's management, De Gruyter was able to acquire the publishing houses KG Saur and Max Niemeyer through purchase, making De Gruyter one of the largest publishers in the humanities. Saur's successor as managing director was Sven Fund , who was previously a member of the board at Springer Science + Business Media .

Saur holds a large number of offices: Among other things, he is a member of the Presidium of the Goethe Institute , honorary member of the Association of German Librarians , chairman of the Friends of the Berlin State Library and a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy . He was also a board member of the German Book Trade Association and chairman of the advisory board of the German library .

Awards

Saur holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Marburg , Pisa , Boston and Izhevsk . He is also honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Glasgow and since 2008 honorary professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He is an honorary citizen of the Graz University of Technology and an honorary senator of the University of Leipzig and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Works

  • Klaus G. Saur: Dream job as a publisher . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-455-50165-0
  • Klaus G. Saur (ed.): Publishers in the “Third Reich” , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2013. ISBN 978-3-465-04175-7 .

literature

  • Reinhard Oberschelp : A memorandum and a call , in: First encounters - joint projects: Klaus G. Saur on his 60th birthday ; ed. by the employees of KG Saur Verlag. - Munich [u. a.]: Saur, 2001; Pp. 130-132; ISBN 3-598-27741-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the knowledge gap , in: Tagesspiegel September 13, 2006.
  2. ↑ Round birthdays , in: Book Market July 27, 2006 ( Memento from August 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Winner Publizistenpreis , German Library Association, as of March 16, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Saur, Klaus G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saur, Klaus Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Pullach