Max Paschke (publisher)

Max Paschke, portrait photo and signature

Max Anton Joseph Paschke (born February 4, 1868 in Schweidnitz , † December 16, 1932 ) was a German publisher .

Life

Max Paschke was the son of the wagon builder Anton Joseph Paschke and his wife Johanne Christliebe, nee. Forbriger. Paschke's father died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; the son grew up with a war comrade of his father, Captain Schubert, in Liegnitz , where he attended secondary school. Then Max Paschke started his apprenticeship in the Hermann Heiber bookstore in Freiburg, Silesia . After completing his apprenticeship, he first worked in Bromberg before moving to Berlin . He did volunteer work in the General German Bookstore Association and in “Cancer. Sociable Association of Young Berlin Booksellers ”, where he also gave numerous lectures on the training of young booksellers. In 1890 he was employed by the Haude & Spener publishing house ; In 1902 he became managing director there and in 1911 he acquired the publishing house after the death of Konrad Weidling . Paschke strengthened the economic branch of the publishing house; there were new editions of the " Winged Words " and the "Staircase Joke of World History". Under the pseudonym Hans Eckart, Paschke also brought a new collection of quotations under the title “Leading words. Wisdom and Worldview of German Poets and Thinkers ”. Together with the bookseller Philipp Rath, Paschke wrote the “Textbook of the German Book Trade”, which quickly became a standard work after its publication in 1908 and saw numerous other editions. From 1909 Paschke was a lecturer for the book trade at the Berlin Business School. He was also active in various book trade associations.

In 1897 Paschke married Emma Elise Strötzel, whose craft training enabled her to design various publishing houses.

In the presentation of the history of the Haude & Spener publishing house from 1939, Paschke is certified as having a "decidedly völkisch conviction". From 1930 he was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 183488) and had the first National Socialist business magazine appear in his publishing house in 1932.

Fonts (selection)

• together with Philipp Rath: Textbook of the German Book Trade , Leipzig: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels 1908 (numerous other editions)
  • Vol. 1: The book. The trade. The book trade. The publishing book trade
  • Vol. 2: The retail book trade. The second-hand bookshop. The Kolportagebuchhandel. The travel book trade. The bookselling commission business. The bar range.
• The German book printing tariff: Report of the Commission of the German Publishers 'Association , Leipzig: German Publishers' Association 1910 ( online )
• Ed. (Under the pseudonym Hans Eckart): Leading words. Wisdom and worldview of German poets and thinkers , Berlin: Paschke 1912.

literature

• Proud past, living present. 325 years of Haude & Spenersche bookstore in Berlin; 1614–1939 , Berlin: Haude & Spener 1939, pp. 87–93.