Peter short

This article is about the publisher and author Peter Kurz. For other people see Peter Kurz .

Peter Kurz, 2014

Peter Kurz (* 1955 in Bremen ) is a German publisher and author. He became known for his book series on the history of the automobile.

Life

After two one-year internships in a machine factory and a bank in Bremen, he studied mechanical engineering and later business administration with a focus on marketing and company history. In 1980 he started his own business for old-timer spare parts and literature. In 1987, Kurz wrote his first book. It was about the VW type 181 bucket . At the end of the 80s he was one of the founders of the motorcycle rider magazine "GummikuH".

In 1995, the man from Bremen acquired the image archive, consisting of positives, negatives and the rights of use, from photographer Gerhard Schammelt, who mainly depicted Lloyd , Mercedes-Benz and VW vehicles. This stock of approximately 12,000 images was expanded by purchasing other archives. Short was able to acquire the bequests and rights of the photographers Paul Botzenhardt (German and French automobiles), Rudolf Dodenhoff (various brands), Heinz Lutz (GDR vehicles), Walter Richleske ( Borgward ), Hans Saebens (various brands), Karl-Heinz Witte (Lloyd and Goliath) and Hermann Ohlsen (Architecture Bremen). Today his picture archive includes around 150,000 photos of automobiles from the 1950s and 1960s as well as the aviation industry in Bremen ( Henrich Focke , Focke-Wulf ) from the 1920s and 1930s.

Short published the book series “Cars from Bremen” (13 volumes) between 1996 and 2013, which describes the history of the Bremen motor vehicle industry ( Borgward , Hanomag , Mercedes-Benz ). In Delius Klasing Verlag , he published the series “Moving Times”, which presented various automobiles from the 1950s. Today, Kurz is working on a 14-volume Borgward chronicle in his specialty. Kurz is a member of the forum for vehicle history (F-Kubik).

Works (selection)

As an author

Bremen's automotive industry

• Drive better, drive Borgward - Volume 1959. Verlag Peter kurz, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-927485-54-9 .
• Drive better, drive Borgward - Volume 1958. Verlag Peter kurz, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-927485-58-7 .
• Drive better, drive Borgward - Volume 1957. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-927485-57-0 .
• Drive better, drive Borgward - Volume 1956. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-3-927485-56-3 .
• Borgward Isabella - From the drawing board to the roll-out, Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2020, ISBN 978-3-927485-08-2 .
• Borgward type customer. Goliath and Lloyd . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7688-2599-3 .
• On Borgward's footsteps in Hastedt . Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-927485-81-5 .
• Carl FW Borgward Automobile Works. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-927485-23-3 .
• In fact: Borgward P100 . Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-927485-71-6 .
• Prototypes and small series vehicles from the Borgward, Goliath and Lloyd works. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-927485-53-2 .
• Searching for clues: the Bremen car industry. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-927485-26-8 .
• Kurz / Schwerdtfeger: Autoland Bremen. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-927485-04-4 .
• Kurz / Neumann: 100 years of automobile manufacturing in Bremen: The Hansa Loyd and Borgward era. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-927485-51-9 .
• Kurz / Zwiener: 100 years of automobile manufacturing in Bremen: The Hanomag and Mercedes-Benz era. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-927485-52-5 .
• Short / Kaack / Schwerdtfeger: We build cars with passion · 75 years of the Bremen plant. Verlag Peter Kurz, Edited by Daimler AG , Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-927485-70-9 .

other producers

• DKW master class . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-7688-1646-X .
• Ford Taunus 17 M. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1924-4 .
• Small car of the fifties. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7688-2511-5 .
• Mercedes-Benz 190-300 SE. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-7688-1810-1 .
• Short / Halwart Schrader : Mercedes-Benz / 8 W 114/115. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-7688-3510-7 .
• Short / Halwart Schrader: Mercedes-Benz 180/190/219 / 220a. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-7688-3864-1 .
• Trabant . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-7688-1476-9 .
• Short / Halwart Schrader: VW Bulli . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3227-4 .
• VW Beetle . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-7688-1477-7 .
• Wartburg 311 / 312 . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7688-2455-2 .

Varia

• Short / Stünkel / Ziesemer: The history of aviation in Bremen. Bogenschütz-Verlag, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-927485-03-9 .
• Kaack / Short: Airplanes from Bremen - Aviation history of the Hanseatic city. Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-472-0 .
• Kaack / Kurz: Industry in Bremen. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8313-2322-7 .
• Short / Steiner: Motorcycles from Zschopau - DKW, IFA, MZ. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89595-146-3 .

YouTube

• Borgward 1956

As a publisher

Bremen's automotive industry

• Heinrich Völker: The way to Borgward Isabella. ISBN 978-3-927485-27-3 .
• Engelbert Hartwig: Did Isabella Have to Die? ISBN 978-3-927485-29-7 .
• Harald Focke : Borgwards helicopter. ISBN 978-3-927485-84-6 .
• Gunther Riedel: Goliath Sport. ISBN 978-3-927485-75-4 .
• Klaus Brandhuber: Borgward Automobile Works: Construction, Economic Miracle and Bankruptcy. ISBN 978-3-927485-73-0 .
• Heinrich Völker: Silver Arrows from Bremen. ISBN 978-3-927485-43-3 .

other producers

• Detlef Lichtenstein: Pietro Frua and his cars. ISBN 978-3-927485-31-0 .
• Ulrich Knaack: Renault 5 . 2006, ISBN 3-927485-48-9 .
• Wolfgang Simons: The environmental car. ISBN 978-3-927485-15-0 .
• Peter Witt: Cars and motorcycles between Eisenach and Moscow. ISBN 978-3-927485-18-1 .
• Wolfgang Schröder: AWO, MZ, Trabant and Wartburg. ISBN 978-3-927485-12-9 .
• Jörn Fröhlich: AWO, Simson and EMW . ISBN 978-3-927485-25-9 .

Varia

• Henrich Focke : My path in life. 1996, ISBN 3-931148-91-2 .
• Schwärzel / Lehmann: Company museums in Germany. ISBN 978-3-927485-12-9 .
• Hartmut Schwerdtfeger / Erik Herlyn: The merchant submarines "Deutschland" and "Bremen". ISBN 978-3-931148-99-7 .
• Sven Claußen / Ulf Kaack : The rescue cruisers of the DGzRS (series). ISBN 978-3-927485-90-7 .
• Enno Hansing: Here are my bones, I want them to be yours. ISBN 978-3-927485-11-2 .

Web links

• Official website of Peter Kurz
• Website of the group of authors F-Kubik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ art - the art magazine: Borgward photo archive rediscovered ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Delius Klasing: Moving Times
3. ^ Members of the forum for vehicle history.