Martin Schönbrodt-Rühl

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Oskar Martin Schönbrodt-Rühl (born November 2, 1904 in Wiederitzsch , † September 6, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher ( Neumann Verlag ), printer ( J. Neumann Verlag ) and typesetter .

Live and act

After completing an apprenticeship as a banker, Schönbrodt-Rühl switched to the book trade: Supplemented by evening courses at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, he completed an apprenticeship as a book printer and typesetter at the technical college for book printers in Leipzig in 1927. In Berlin three years later he passed his master craftsman examination with distinction. In the period that followed, Schönbrodt-Rühl worked in various large printing companies, including the Berlin newspaper and magazine publisher owned by August Scherl .

After studying in the USA, where he got to know offset printing, he took over the management of the large print shop of the publisher Julius Neumann in Neudamm in the Neumark .

Schönbrodt-Rühl survived the Second World War as the only partner of the original Neumann publishing house. He moved to Radebeul near Dresden in Saxony , where in November 1945 he applied to the literature and book trade department of the Saxon state administration to reopen the publishing house as Neumann Verlag . With the support of the Börsenverein , he obtained the license of the Soviet military administration in Germany as a publisher on February 25, 1947.

Dr.-Schmincke-Allee 19: residential and publishing house from 1948

Until his death in 1965, from 1958 independently under the umbrella of the SED's own Urania Verlag , Schönbrodt-Rühl published numerous books on horticultural, agricultural and forestry topics. In addition, his license allowed him to study natural history fiction. With his death in 1965, his wife Herta Schönbrodt-Rühl took over the management of the publishing house together with Georg Anders.

Schönbrodt-Rühl was buried in Dresden's Old Annenfriedhof .

literature

  • Manfred Altner: Saxon Life Pictures. Radebeul 2001.
  • Christoph Links : The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences , Berlin 2009, p. 235 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Altner: Oskar Martin Schönbrodt-Rühl . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV (Ed.): Saxon Biography . September 11, 2018 ( isgv.de - editor Martina Schattkowsky).
personal data
SURNAME Schönbrodt-Rühl, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönbrodt-Rühl, Oskar Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, printer and typesetter
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiederitzsch
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1965
Place of death Leipzig