Oscar Beck

This article is about the publisher Oscar Beck. For other people see Oskar Beck .

Oscar Beck (born November 18, 1850 in Nördlingen , † January 22, 1924 in Munich , spelling also Oskar Beck ) was a German publisher . As head of the CH Beck publishing house founded by his great-grandfather and named after his grandfather , he mainly expanded the social science program there.

As the son of Carl and Hedwig Beck, Oscar became a partner in the publishing company on January 1, 1878, and took over sole management on July 1, 1884. With the move of the publishing house from Nördlingen (where the printing works remained) to Munich in 1889, he emphasized a programmatic opening of the company, which had previously focused on theology and law. An essential work established under his management is the handbook of classical studies by Iwan von Müller . The work The Wanderer Between Two Worlds by Walter Flex , published in 1916, is still the publisher's best-selling book with more than a million copies sold. After the First World War , Oscar Beck published, among other things, The Decline of the Occident by Oswald Spengler and the work Culture and Ethics by Albert Schweitzer .

Oscar Beck married Hedwig von Burger on May 10, 1879, their son Heinrich Beck (* 1889) took over the management of the publishing house after the death of his father.

literature

• Annemarie Meiner:  Beck, Oscar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 697 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verlag CH Beck: 250 years of CHBeck - a brief history of the publishing house ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.