Rudolf Georgi

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Rudolf Georgi (born May 17, 1879 in Leipzig , † July 17, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German publisher and bookseller and partner in Paul Parey Verlag in Berlin.

Life

Georgi family burial site

His father was the first mayor of Leipzig , Otto Georgi . His mother Anna Gruner (1824–1925) was the daughter of a Leipzig wholesaler. Among his seven siblings, Arthur Georgi was also a publisher and owner of Paul Parey Verlag.

Rudolf Georgi attended the royal high school in his hometown from 1890 to 1899 , which he left with the school leaving certificate. Then he learned the trade as a bookseller. In 1911 he became a partner in Paul Parey Verlag, which his brother Arthur Georgi senior had taken over in 1900. After his brother's death in 1945, he and his nephew Arthur Georgi junior continued to run the publishing house. Together they continued to expand the publishing house until, towards the end of the Second World War, Allied bombing raids almost completely destroyed the publishing house and the entire inventory was lost in the Battle of Berlin .

After the Second World War he was instrumental in rebuilding the publishing house. While his nephew took over the management of the newly founded house in Hamburg in 1951 , he continued to run the Berlin publishing house, now as a branch, until his death in 1956.

On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1954 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Rudolf Georgi died in Berlin in 1956 at the age of 77 and was buried in the Georgi family grave in the Dahlem forest cemetery. (Field 004-683)

literature

  • Herbert Helbig : Keyword "Georgi, Otto" . In Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.): New German Biography, Vol. 6. Duncker and Humblot: Berlin 1994, p. 243.
  • Munzinger-Archiv GmbH (Ed.): Keyword "Rudolf Georgi" . In Munzinger Archive: International Biographical Archive. Munzinger: Ravensburg 1956, delivery 39/1956 from September 17, 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 580.
personal data
SURNAME Georgi, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Publishing bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1956
Place of death Berlin