Reinhold Pabel

Reinhold Pabel (born November 5, 1915 in Hamburg ; † May 27, 2008 ibid) was a German author and book antiquarian . He also became famous for his successful breakout from an American prisoner-of-war camp.

Life

Pabel began studying Catholic theology and philosophy in Münster in 1936 . During the Second World War he was drafted and taken into American captivity. He was able to escape from the prison camp in the United States . He started a family in America and opened a Book Mart under the name Phil Brick in Chicago in the spring of 1948 . After a short time he was arrested by the FBI and had to face a public trial. After his imprisonment, he returned to Hamburg for some time and applied for an official entry permit for the United States. It was not until the mid-1960s that he finally settled back in Germany as an American citizen. Reinhold Pabel had been working as a business partner in Rudolf Habelt's second-hand bookshop in Bonn since 1964 . In 1974 he opened his own antiquarian bookshop in the Krameramtswohnungen not far from Hamburg's Michel , which he expanded at the beginning of the 1980s with a shop on Englische Planke . At the end of the 1980s, Pabel handed over the management of the two businesses to his daughter Lucie Pabel and his son-in-law Gottwalt Pankow. In 1990 he retired. Pabel is one of the co-founders of the Hamburg antiquarian book fair quod libet .

In addition to his bookselling activity, Pabel found time to write books on local historical topics, some of which were sold in multiple editions.

Pabel was buried on June 6, 2008 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

His book Enemies are human served as the template for the 1961 film Auf Wiedersehen .

Works

• with Karl August Siegel: Christian life in monasticism in the Eastern Church: The Holy Mount Athos. Lichtbildverlag L. Schumacher, Erkenschwick (Kr. Recklinghausen i. W.) 1939
• Athos, the holy mountain: encounter with the Christian East. Preface: Joseph Lortz , Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1940 (pilgrims report from a trip to Holy Mount Athos in Greece)
• Enemies are human. 1955 (novel with autobiographical information)

Enemies are people too: Submerged in Chicago for 7 years. Escape and adventure of a German prisoner of war. Stalling, Hamburg / Oldenburg 1957 (German translation)

• In the shadow of Michel: the Kramer office in Hamburg and its widows' apartments on Krayenkamp. Christians, Hamburg, 1978, 1985, 1990, ISBN 3-7672-0543-2 .
• The little and the big Hamburg Michel. Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0939-X .
• Hamburg's culture carousel between the Baroque and the Enlightenment: contemporary witnesses tracked down and commented on. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1996, ISBN 3-529-07400-4 .
• Old Hamburg street names. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-769-3 .

literature

• Pabel, Reinhold . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape V . Wallstein, Göttingen, p. 285-286 .
• Obituary in the magazine Aus dem Antiquariat , edition of August 8, 2008, pp. 289–290, DNB 1030992274
• Kai-Uwe Scholz: Hamburg ?? - Chicago and back. Reinhold Pabel founded his second-hand bookshop 50 years ago. In: From the second-hand bookshop , 1998
• GP: Reinhold Pabel on his 90th birthday , In: Aus dem Antiquariat , 2005, No. 6, pp. 490–491, DNB 1030958599

Web links

• Died: Hamburg antiquarian Reinhold Pabel died , obituary on boersenblatt.net from June 4, 2008