Robert Bachem (publisher)

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Robert Bachem (born June 7, 1863 in Cologne ; † July 7, 1942 there ) was a German publisher and bookseller .

Life

Robert Bachem grew up as the son of the publisher and book printer owner Josef Bachem (1821-1893) and his wife Katharina nee Degen (1831-1921) together with five siblings in a Catholic family and was baptized in 1863 in the parish church of St. Mary's Assumption in Cologne. He attended secondary school in Cologne, where he graduated from high school in 1882. After an apprenticeship at Bankhaus Camphausen in Cologne and a commercial apprenticeship, he worked from 1887 in his father's company, which was founded in 1818, as a publisher, book printer and newspaper publisher.

He belonged to the German Center Party and switched to the NSDAP after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists .

Bachem was one of the founders of the Association of German Newspaper Publishers in 1894 and later became the second chairman of the association. He also co-founded the Rheinischer Zeitungsverleger association in 1911 and was elected first chairman. He was a board member of the German Professional Association for Book Printers and a long-term member of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Honors

  • Papal Order of St. Gregorius
  • Order of the Red Eagle
  • Civil War Award

family

With Minna born On September 22nd, 1891, he signed the marriage as the winner . Together they had four children and lived in Cologne, Gereonshof 5. His wife died in 1939 at the age of 68.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 46f.
  • Eckehard Schneider: Joseph Wilhelm Peter Bachem. In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 151-162.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Georg Klose: Newspaper Studies in Cologne. A contribution to the professionalization of […] , 2019, p. 7.
  2. ↑ edith-stein-medien.de: Contemporary History - Minna Bachem-Sieger , accessed on January 21, 2015
  3. ^ Karl Höber: Minna Bachem-Sieger and the German women's movement , Bachem, Cologne 1940, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Bachem, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1942
Place of death Cologne