Maximilian Noessler

Maximilian Nößler , mostly called Max Nößler (born October 13, 1860 in Auerbach / Vogtl. , † April 21, 1922 in Bremen ), was a German merchant and consul for Japan.

biography

Nößler was the son of a printer from Auerbach and later from Reichenbach in the Vogtland . He attended secondary school until 1876. He then completed an apprenticeship as a book printer in Mittweida and as a bookseller in Leipzig . He then attended a bookseller's school and worked in his father's bookstore in Leipzig.

In 1887 he followed his brother Eduard Nößler to Bremen, who was the choir director here. Max became managing director of the Heinsius publishing house in Bremen on Faulenstrasse . In 1890 he became a self-employed publisher and bookseller on Sögestraße and also ran a book printer. In 1895 the company moved to Domshof No. 17/18. He married the daughter of a cigar manufacturer from Engelhardt & Biermann .

In 1896 he delivered German machine catalogs to the Japanese consulate in Berlin. His company was also the editor of two East Asian export magazines. In 1897 Nößler traveled through China and Japan for half a year and set up publishing agencies in Tokyo and Shanghai, among other places . In 1900 he became Japanese honorary consul in Bremen. From 1906 he also trusted Korea as consul . The company now deepened its export business to these countries and took over the main agency for the Imperial Japanese Sea and Transport Insurance Company . Further trips to East Asia by Nößler followed in 1902. Book, art, stationery and music stores opened in Shanghai and Jokohama . In 1904 he campaigned for 720 Japanese refugees from Siberia to be accommodated in Germany and to travel back to Japan via Bremerhaven. Since 1907, his export business has been at Am Wall No. 108 and since 1912 at Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße No. 11A. In 1912 he bought his country house in Baden (Achim) , where his brother Eduard already owned a house. As a result of the upheavals in East Asia, he lost the bookstores in China and Japan and, due to the First World War, he laid down his Japanese consulate in 1914.

In 1923 his company went out. The bookstore in Shanghai was operated by another owner until 1944.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .