Reinhard Bérard

Ferdinand Theodor Reinhard (Régnard) Bérard (born December 24, 1841 in Berlin ; † June 10, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German printer and politician .

Live and act

Bérard grew up in a Berlin Huguenot family and initially learned the profession of typesetter . At the beginning of the 1870s he came to Hamburg, where Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz found him a job as head of the printing and typesetting at the Hamburg-Altonaer Buchdruckerei-Genossenschaft. From 1878 to 1878 he was the editor of the Kiel cooperative, which published the Schleswig-Holstein People's Newspaper in the Sönksen printing house from October 1, 1877 . For violations of the press law, Bérard was repeatedly convicted and given complete censorship of letters.

In 1878, Bérard took over the management of the remnants of the Hamburg cooperative book printing company, which had been pseudo-privatized due to the socialist laws. After Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz had to leave the Hanseatic city in 1880 , Bérard took over the management of the entire social-democratic party printing company and the management of the Auer Druck- & Verlagsanstalt company , which he held until his death. The print shop on Grosse Theaterstrasse published the daily newspaper "Hamburger Echo" and published numerous publications for the party and trade unions.

Bérard acquired Hamburg citizenship in 1898 .

Political activities

Bérard worked in the book printers' union and was a member of the tariff commission in 1884. From 1907 to 1913 he was a representative of the landowners and a member of the Hamburg parliament .

literature

• Angela Graf: Bérard, Reinhard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 36-37 .