Robert David Sauerländer

Robert David Sauerländer (born April 22, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 3, 1962 there ) was a German publisher .

Life

Robert David Sauerländer was the son of the publisher Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer (1821-1896), owner of JD Sauerländer's publishing house , based at Finkenhofstrasse 2 in Frankfurt. He initially trained as a bookseller at Abendroth in Frankfurt, then he volunteered at the Trübner publishing houses in Strasbourg and Hertz in Berlin. In 1893 he joined his father's publishing house, which he took over after his father's death in 1896. Despite the crisis of the First World War and the inflation that followed, the publishing house was able to secure its existence. He specialized the publishing house in the fields of economics , forest science and classical philology . Since there were no descendants, at the end of 1936 he sold the publishing house and its domicile to his authorized signatory Albrecht Gruber (1902–1973), who had been employed in the company for fourteen years. From 1939 to 1946, when he was in military service and imprisonment, he once again supported his wife in running the publishing house.

literature

• Robert David Sauerländer † . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Frankfurt edition, Vol. 18, 1962, p. 59.
• JD Sauerländer's Verlag 1613, 1816, 1966. Looking back over 150 years . JD Sauerländer's Verlag, Frankfurt 1966.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert David Sauerländer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert David Sauerländer, photography, Frankfurt am Main, 1916 .
• On the history of JD Sauerländer's Verlag