Reich manual of German society
The Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , with the subtitle The Handbook of Personalities in Word and Pictures , was a handbook with biographical data on important living personalities in German society . Robert Volz was the main editor of the reference work published in two volumes in 1930 and 1931 by the Deutsches Wirtschaftsverlag in Berlin .
After a preface of the sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies be more than 2000 pages around 10,000 mostly with black and white - portrait photographs illustrated extensive biographies of the "carriers of culture , spirit , science , politics , economy and society of the advantages and interwar period", in their time of Publication of the book applicable positions, presented. In the professional groups, there is a clear predominance in favor of executive and supervisory boards of large companies.
The original editions of both volumes were printed by the Haenelschen Buchdruckerei in Magdeburg.
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- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, the handbook of personalities in words and pictures . Editor Robert Volz , foreword by Ferdinand Tönnies. Volume 1 (A – K), Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, the handbook of personalities in words and pictures . Editor Robert Volz , foreword by Ferdinand Tönnies. Volume 2 (L – Z), Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294
- Microfiche edition: Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
- Announced since 2011, but not published so far (as of March 2018): Reprint of the Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, Das Handbuch der Personalitäten in words and pictures . From Finckenstein & Salmuth, Berlin ISBN 978-3-934882-30-0 .