Otto Heinzelmann

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Otto Heinzelmann (born February 21, 1852 in Binz on Rügen ; † July 7, 1930 in Hanover ) was a German bookseller who also came out with his own publications .

Life

Born in 1852 as the son of a squire on the island of Rügen, Otto Heinzelmann completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Stralsund with Siegmund Bremer , before he worked as an employee first at Friedrich Volckmar in Leipzig , then at Moritz Rudolphi in Hamburg . He then went to Hanover, where he worked for the Carl Hahnes art dealer at Georgstrasse 17 .

Together with the bookseller Otto axis he founded the company in 1880 Sachse & Heinzelmann as a book and art shop in the corner house Georgstraße corner windmill street .

After Saxony's departure, Heinzelmann bought the building at Georgstrasse 22 at the corner of Ständehausstrasse, built by the architect and client Ferdinand Wallbrecht , and relocated his business there while retaining the company's name.

Tomb of the family, including Margarethe Jockusch , in the Engesohde city cemetery

In 1894 Heinzelmann married Margarete Stoeckel , the daughter of a lawyer working in Königsberg at the time. Four years later, the only 20-year-old Robert Jockusch (the elder) from Cotta near Dresden joined the company, but refused a partnership and went to Wilhelmshaven in 1906 to start his own retail bookstore with art, music and paper goods in conjunction with a stationery store.

In the meantime, Otto Heinzelmann had found another partner in B. Betke as early as 1904, with whom he converted the company into a GmbH , which Adolf Seemeyer joined as a further partner in 1909 .

Otto Heinzelmann had already joined the Hanover Art Association in 1907 .

In 1926 Robert Jockusch the Younger joined the bookstore Sachse & Heinzelmann as an assistant. In the year the company's founder died, he married Heinzelmann's daughter Margarethe . The couple continued Sachse & Heinzelmann.

The tomb Otto Heinzel's found on the city cemetery Engesohde .

literature

  • Johann Ferking :
    • 75 years of Sachse & Heinzelmann. A small almanac for November 1, 1955 , ed. by Margarethe Jockusch, Hanover: Sachse & Heinzelmann, 1955
    • 75 years of Sachse & Heinzelmann GmbH. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Vol. 11, 1955: pp. 714–715
  • Nekrolog in the Hanover address book from 1931

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinzelmann, Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 4, 2016
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen : Heinzelmann, Otto. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 282; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hugo Thielen : Heinzelmann, Otto. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 160.
  4. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  5. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library on the Robert Jockusch company (Wilhelmshaven)
personal data
SURNAME Heinzelmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Binz on Rügen
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1930
Place of death Hanover