Rudolf Marx (publisher)

Rudolf Marx (born November 16, 1899 in Bernburg , † July 11, 1990 in Leipzig ) was a German publisher .

Rudolf Marx studied German, history and philosophy in Halle and Leipzig . In 1924 he joined the Alfred Kröner Verlag in Leipzig, where he worked as an editor, proofreader and supervisor of Kröner's pocket edition . In 1937 he was co-owner of the possession of the publisher Wilhelm terminal located Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung was, who is also managing partner of the Kröner Verlag. In the same year, the two began to publish the " Dieterich Collection ". Marx was responsible for the publishing and editorial management of the publisher, Klemm for economic matters. After Klemm was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1938 and was thus banned from working, Marx formally took over the publishing house. However, Marx himself got into trouble because he had continued to employ the Jew Max Heinemann (1882–1944), who had been co-owner of the publishing house until 1927, for the publishing house. He then joined the NSDAP in 1938 without being involved there and was able to continue working. A total of 65 volumes were published in the “Dieterich Collection” by 1944, after which the publishing house had to stop its work due to the war damage.

After he was denazified in 1946, he received on February 8, 1947 the license to continue the "Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung" in Leipzig. Wilhelm Klemm moved to Wiesbaden in 1945 and continued to run the publishing house there under the same name; he published 18 volumes of the "Dieterich Collection" there, but then had to sell them to Schünemann Verlag . Marx in Leipzig then took over some of the volumes from the “Dieterich Collection” that were published there in his program. At the end of 1977, for health reasons, Marx left the publishing house, which became part of the Gustav Kiepenheuer publishing group in Leipzig. By 1989, around 250 volumes of the "Dieterich Collection" had appeared in Leipzig.

Marx was also active as a poet and author.

literature

• Karl Klaus Walther: After the fire. Rudolf Marx and Hans-Hasso von Veltheim . Correspondence from 1942 to 1945 . In: From the Antiquariat 2003, No. 6, pp. 421–427.
• Christoph Links : The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences . Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-523-2 , pp. 223-226.
• Grit Stegmann: The Dieterich Collection and its editor Rudolf Marx. In: Siegfried Lokatis , Ingrid Sonntag (ed.): 100 years of Kiepenheuer publishers. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-635-2 , pp. 300-308.