Otto Sparrow
Otto Spatz , pseudonym Otto Helmut (born July 1, 1900 in Munich ; † April 3, 1989 ) was a German bookseller, publisher and writer.
Life
Otto Spatz was the son of the physician and secret medical adviser Bernhard Spatz (1856-1935). His brother was the later neuropathologist Hugo Spatz .
The Munich bookseller had been married to Frieda, a daughter of the publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann , since 1928 . In 1930 Lehmann took on Spatz as a partner in his publishing house. After Lehmann's death in 1935, Spatz took over the publishing house, in which the Munich Medical Weekly has been published under the editorial management of his father (from 1885) and his brother Hans (1932 to 1946) . He was also active as an author.
Spatz, who belonged to the Society for Racial Hygiene in Munich, joined the NSDAP in 1937 .
After the end of the war, Spatz resumed publishing activities in 1950, until Lehmanns-Verlag was dissolved at the end of the 1970s. His son Bernhard Spatz (* 1935) was co-owner and managing director of the publishing house from 1966.
At the right-wing extremist Society for Free Journalism (GfP), he co-founded the publication organ Das Freie Forum in 1960 . In 1970 the GfP awarded him the Ulrich von Hutten Medal .
Fonts
- as Otto Helmut: People in danger. The decline in the birth rate and its consequences for Germany's future . Preface (later closing) Arthur Gütt . JF Lehmanns, Munich 1933; last verb. 10th edition 1939 (6th edition 1934 the only one without the main title)
- Recovered German land in Danzig-West Prussia, East Prussia, Wartheland, Upper Silesia, Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Eupen-Malmedy. JF Lehmanns, Munich 1941
- Love and calico. The secret of an old city and its citizens. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen 1978
- Ancestral pictures of the Spatz-Lehmann family. Publishing house O. Spatz, Munich 1982
- Memories from my life. T. 1 Verlag Otto Spatz, Munich 1984; T. 2 ibid. 1989
- For the 85th birthday of the founder of the bookstore for medicine and psychology Otto Spatz, Munich and Hamburg. Publisher: Bookstore for Medicine and Psychology Otto Spatz, Munich 1985
- Twenty-five years of bookstore for medicine and border areas Otto Spatz, Munich and Hamburg. Bookstore for medicine and border areas Spatz, Munich undated [1974]
literature
- Sigrid Stöckel (Ed.): The "right nation" and their publisher. Politics and popularization in JF Lehmanns Verlag 1890–1979 . Lehmanns 2002, ISBN 3-931253-98-8 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Spatz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinz Walter: Lehmann, Julius Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 70 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sparrow, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spatz, Otto Helmut (full name); Helmut, Otto (pseudonym); Spatz, Otto H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller, publisher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1989 |