Otto von Halem

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Otto von Halem (born August 23, 1867 in Bremen , † January 2, 1940 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher and bookseller.

biography

Halem came from an old German noble family. He was the son of the bookseller and art dealer Gustav Adolph von Halem (1830-1896) and his first wife Marie Ottilie Dannemann and brother of the district administrator and Reichstag member Gustav Adolph von Halem (1870-1932). He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen . Then he studied with his father. Since 1899 (other sources: 1896) he was the sole owner of the company founded by his father in Bremen at Oldenburger Strasse No. 14 in 1863. He sold the assortment business to Franz Leuwer in 1905 and managed the publishing and exporting of books himself, especially to the Colonies. The company was converted into a GmbH with Halem as the main shareholder.

At the same time he moved to Stuttgart and ran several publishing houses in Germany. The general, entertaining literature was published in Stuttgart and scientific works in Berlin.

In 1905 Halem bought the publishing rights for the Chemiker-Zeitung of 1877 ( Köthen ) from the newspaper founder and chemist Georg Krause . The newspaper existed until 1945 in the publishing house of the Chemiker-Zeitung Otto von Halem .

Halem was from 1912, as a co-owner of Veit & Comp. in Leipzig , with the publisher Walter de Gruyter significantly involved in mergers of the Association of Scientific Publishers Walter de Gruyter & Co. (VwV) in Berlin, Leipzig and Strasbourg. In 1919 he was together with Gruyter, Wilhelm von Crayen (co-owner of Göschen ), Oscar Schuchardt (co-owner of Guttentag ) and Curt Thesing (co-owner of Veit & Comp. ) General partners of the limited partnership.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Halem was a partner and member of the supervisory board of the mighty Allgemeine Werbung GmbH ( Ala Ads GmbH ) in the Hugenberg Group .

In 1927 the Bremen company moved to Böttcherstraße . Later this company was called Buch- und Kunsthandlung GA von Halem and was located at Obernstrasse 57 until around 2000 .

Halem was married to Molli Pflüger from Bremen. Both had sons Gustav-Adolph (1899–1999, diplomat) and Carl-Otto (1901–1968).

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personal data
SURNAME Halem, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1940
Place of death Stuttgart