Robert Laurer

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Robert Laurer (* 1899 , † 1954 ) was a publisher of magazines and books for the nudist movement .

In 1923 Laurer came to Egestorf near Hamburg, where he opened one of the largest areas of the nudist movement. Since 1923 he published various life reform and nudism magazines, such as Die Freude (since 1923–1929), Licht-Land (1924–1933), Lachendes Leben (1925–1931), Tempo , Ideale Körperschönheit and Sonne im Leben .

In 1927 he founded the league for free living (Lffl). The publishing house, the area and the Lffl were one of the most comprehensive free-body associations before 1933.

Publications by the Robert Laurer publishing house

  • Rober Laurer: Nudity as a Crime. The struggle for 184 Str.GB in the Lüneburg nude culture trial , Egestorf 1927.
  • Georg Bonne: The Gothic Man. Paths to national unity and popular recovery , Egestorf 1927.
  • J. Reissner: Natural body care - hygiene and nudity , Egestorf 1927.
  • Werner Suhr: The face of dance , Egestorf 1927.
  • Walther Brauns: The world for the free! Pictures from the way new people shape their lives , Egestorf 1926.
  • Therese Mülhause-Vogeler: Free lifestyle. A contribution to the reshaping of the lifestyle , Egestorf 1926.

literature

  • Marlies Schwanitz: Robert Laurer Verlag and "Jungborn Sonnenland Egestorf" . In: Egestorfer Gemeindeblatt , issue 7, July - September 2010, p. 19 f. Online: Egestorfer Gemeindeblatt (PDF; 5.9 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: "The new man." Physical culture in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . Würzburg, 2004, p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Laurer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturopath and personality of the land reform movement
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
DATE OF DEATH 1954