Oscar de Liagre

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Oscar de Liagre (born April 22, 1870 in Leipzig ; † April 28, 1940 there ) was a German publisher in Leipzig and co-founder and partner of the Leipzig publishing house Vobach & Co GmbH.

Life

Oscar de Liagre was born on April 22, 1870 as the son of the factory owner Gustav de Liagre in Leipzig. On January 27, 1898, he married Charlotte Gödecke.

From 1887 he did an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Fues-Verlag (R. Reisland Verlag) in Leipzig and initially worked as a bookseller's assistant in Hanover . From 1890 he did military service for one year. He then studied literary history from 1891 at the Université de Lausanne . During his studies he became a member of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne . After completing his studies, he initially worked in London for the Fischer & Unwin publishing house. In 1894 he returned to Leipzig and worked as a bookseller in the book publisher " Bibliographisches Institut " in Leipzig, which among other things published Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .

In 1896 Liagre set up his own publishing house. In July 1896 he bought E. Twietmeyer in Leipzig his then flourishing handicrafts sheet “Die Arbeitsstube”, which he sold under the company “O. de Liagre ”continued. In 1898 Liagre merged his company with the Willi Vobachs publishing house and became a partner or co-founder of the Leipzig publishing house W. Vobach & Co. The universal publishing house became one of the best-known publishing bookstores in Leipzig and achieved until 1910 with the weekly "Sunday newspaper for Germany's Women ”has a circulation of 130,000 copies. The total weekly circulation of all sheets by this publisher was one million in 1914. In his spare time, Liagre was a passionate rider . He was therefore instrumental in ensuring that the “green book” (official title: “Riding Memories” ) , which is known in hunting circles , could be continued in several editions.

In 1900 he was appointed lieutenant , 1904 first lieutenant and in 1910 captain of the reserve of the 7th Royal Saxon Field Artillery Regiment No. 77 in Leipzig. In 1918 he retired with the rank of Major in the Reserve . He was the bearer of the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Saxon Order of Albrecht with Swords and Crown and the Wound Badge (1918).

In 1937, de Liagre left the publishing house after 40 years and retired.

Publications

  • Oscar de Liagre: Festival song for the North German Couleurtag of Germania-Lausanne on September 14, 1929 in Lübeck. 1929 - 4 pages
  • Oscar de Liagre: Welcome song for the XIX ACT of Germania-Lausanne: on the 10th and 7th. May 11, 1929 in Bonn on the Rhine. 1929 - 4 pages
  • Oscar de Liagre: History of the de Liagre family - based on an old French chronicle. W. Vobach Verlag, Leipzig 1905
  • Oscar de Liagre: Out into the wide world: May 31st-May 1st June 1902. W. Vobach Verlag, Leipzig 1902, Volume 2, Issue 2

literature

  • Helmut Bähring and Kurt Rüddiger: Lexicon Buchstadt Leipzig - From the beginnings to 1990. Tauchaer Verlag, 2008, p. 171
  • Friedrich Elsner: Articles and documents on the history of the advertising book and magazine trade. Volume 2, Association of the Advertising Book and Magazine Trade, 1961, p. 177 and p. 198
  • Erwin Garvens : Directory of members of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne , Hamburg 1937
  • Our Vobachhaus - company newspaper of the company W. Vobach & Co. G. mb H., Berlin-Leipzig, published 1935-1939
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 99, CA Starke, 1989, p. 336

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b André Loh-Kliesch: de Liagre, Oscar… a German bookseller and publisher. In: Leipzig biography. 2019. From Leipziger-Biographie.de, accessed on October 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Friedrich Elsner: Articles and documents on the history of the advertising book and magazine trade. Volume 2, Association of the Advertising Book and Magazine Trade, 1961, p. 177.
  3. ↑ fashion magazines. In: Housewives and fashion magazines. ABLIT Verlag, p. 45. Auf Zeitschriften.AbLit.de, accessed on October 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ George John Whyte-Melville, Kurt von Keudell: Riding Memories. W. Vobach, 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Liagre, Oscar de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1940
Place of death Leipzig