Richard Quitzow

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Richard Friedrich Johannes Gustav Quitzow (born August 28, 1853 in Güstrow , † June 13, 1927 ) was a German bookseller and politician.

Life

Richard Quitzow founded in August 1880 assortment bookstore under the company Richard Quitzow in Lubeck, opposite the Katharineum in the King Street 28. He also ran the art market as well as a journal-reading circle . In 1884 he acquired Lübeck citizenship. On August 9, 1920, his son Otto Quitzow joined the company as a personally liable partner. The publishing bookstore existed in Lübeck until the end of the 1960s and became part of the Weiland bookstore in Lübeck, today Hugendubel .

From 1901 to 1905 Richard Quitzow was a member of the Lübeck citizenship, i.e. a member of a German state parliament, and since July 15, 1901 a member of their citizens' committee.

Individual evidence

  1. Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, 1980, p. 1820 (for the 100th anniversary)
  2. State Handbook of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck for 1903. P. 6