Reimar Hobbing
Reimar Hobbing (born April 5, 1874 in Emden , † December 14, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German publisher .
Life
Reimar Hobbing was the son of a high school teacher. In his uncle's Stuttgart company, he got to know the publishing business from the ground up. He then went to Bremen , where he became press spokesman for North German Lloyd . Hobbing's next position was as managing director of the Leipzig fashion publisher Vobach.
In 1903 he finally went to Berlin , where he founded his own publishing house and quickly achieved success. In 1905 he was able to take over the conservative monthly for town and country , which he renamed the conservative monthly for politics, art and literature . Hobbings Verlag published both magazines and books, and he succeeded in steadily expanding the company in the conservative spectrum. In 1917 he took over the Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei and Verlaganstalt. This included the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , which he transformed into the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung with the help of Otto Karl Stollberg .
Hobbing established contacts with the Reich government and also published its official Reichsanzeiger . The Reimar Hobbing Verlag was one of the largest publishers in Berlin , along with Julius Springer , Walter de Gruyter and Paul Parey . When Reimar Hobbing died in 1919, Hugo Stinnes took over his publishing house. Hobbing's grave is located in the Luisenstadt cemetery .
Hobbing was married to the merchant's daughter Marianne Buresch, with whom he had three children, including the sculptor Edzard Hobbing .
literature
- Annemarie Wacker: Hobbing, Reimar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 279 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Fischer , Stephan Füssel : History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Weimar Republic. Vol 2. Teilbd 1 . Verlag KG Saur, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-24808-5 .
- Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner (Hrsg.): Perceptions of crises in Germany around 1900: Magazines as forums of the time of upheaval in the Wilhelminian Empire . Verlag Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-743-7 .
Web links
- Newspaper article about Reimar Hobbing in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Reimar Hobbing in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 3, 2019.
- ↑ Ursula Basse-Soltau: Reimar Johannes Martin Hobbing . In: Ostfriesische Landschaft - Regional Association for Culture, Science and Education (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich ( ostfriesenelandschaft.de [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hobbing, Reimar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |