Paul Babendererde (Antiquarian)

Paul Babendererde (born May 22, 1883 in Plaaz , † April 13, 1959 in Lübeck ) was a German bookseller and antiquarian.

Life

In 1912, the bookseller Paul Babendererde took over the GB Leopold'sche Universitätsbuchhandlung in Rostock , which had been founded in 1840 and which he expanded into one of the larger university bookstores in Germany by the Second World War. He expanded the already existing second-hand bookshop and gave the associated publisher a local history focus on Mecklenburgica. With Arthur Eulert from Wismar , he was able to win an employee who, together with him, added the previously non-existent art publisher to the bookstore.

Today's second-hand bookshop

After the war, Babendererde was interned and expropriated by the Russians from 1945 to 1950. After his release from captivity in 1950, he left the GDR and moved to Lübeck. Here he rebuilt the bookstore with a focus on second-hand bookshops together with his son Peter Babendererde (1921–1978). After the death of his son, the grandson and antiquarian Jürgen Babendererde (* 1946) continued the business, from 1984 to 2014 in a listed office building in the Große Burgstrasse in Lübeck's old town .

Paul Babendererde's name is considered the inspiration for Uwe Johnson's naming of his literary character Ingrid Babendererde .

literature

• From the Antiquariat (1990), p. 174 ff.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 339 .

Web links

• Literature about Paul Babendererde (antiquarian) in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Paul Babendererde (antiquarian) in the state bibliography MV
• Homepage of the antiquarian bookshop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Nöldechen: New picture book by Uwe Johnson's Jerichow and the surrounding area: Searching for traces in Mecklenburg by Gesine Cresspahl and Ingrid Babendererde. Wismar: Callidus 2008, ISBN 978-3-940677-10-5 , p. 47f