Otto Dikreiter

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Otto Dikreiter (born November 12, 1899 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † July 13, 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German publisher and editor .

Life

Dikreiter was the son of the SPD politician and journalist Heinrich Georg Dikreiter and brother of the painter Heiner Dikreiter .

He worked in the book trade in Würzburg , Hanover , Konstanz and Bremen until he became the publishing director and authorized signatory at Gräfe and Unzer in Königsberg from 1928 to 1938 . In 1938 in Königsberg he founded the Kanter publishing house at the Graphische Kunstanstalt. He published numerous books, some of which had high print runs. After his escape and the end of World War II , he published in his own Otto Dikreiter publishing house in Überlingen , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin ; later he lived in Hamburg .

In 1935 he was Honorary Chancellor of the Austrian Consulate in Königsberg .

Since 1926 he was married to Hanna Hillebrandt.

Publications (selection)

As editor

  • [Friedrich Löffler, Sergeant.] A German helps conquer the world. 1787-1819. Stuttgart 1937
  • The old treasure chest. Calendar stories and anecdotes from olden times for amusement and edification. Königsberg (East Pr.) 1944
  • Not wanting to do everything alone, God created mothers. Thanks to the mothers. Freiburg / Breisgau [1955]
  • You and your horse. A graceful, instructive and delightful breviary for riders, horse lovers and those who want to become one. Munich, 115th thousand [approx. 1955]
  • Life in East Prussia. Memories from nine decades. Munich 1963
  • with Marion Lindt: The house book of East Prussian humor. Munich 1965, paperback Reinbek 1977

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 1952, sv
  • Who is who? , 17th edition, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 1971, p. 181 ( excerpt )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 1814/1899
  2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Wandsbek, No. 2053/1990.
  3. ↑ Österreichisches Jahrbuch , Volume 15, 1935, p. 476 ( excerpt ).
  4. ^ Marriage register StA Hannover I, No. 777/1926.
personal data
SURNAME Dikreiter, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1990
Place of death Hamburg