Fritz Lachmund

Fritz Lachmund (born February 23, 1911 in Hamburg ; † November 1, 1997 ibid) was a German author , local researcher and collector of historical Hamburg pictorial documents.

Life

Stereoscopy from the “ Lachmund Collection ”: Dreyfuss on the Devil's Island , 1898;
^{Photo or distribution by F. Hamel , Altona - Hamburg , New York , Chicago , Philadelphia}

Revers of the stereo card with stamp "Lachmund Collection"

Lachmund's interest in collectors was aroused at the age of ten when he was given an album with postcards . He started collecting historical photographs and postcards with motifs from Hamburg at an early age . He completed an apprenticeship as a painter and attended trade school. In 1930 he received a scholarship that enabled him to attend the arts and crafts school at Lerchenfeld for four semesters . During this time he began to draw and photograph cityscapes himself. Lachmund's entire collection was destroyed by bombing raids on Hamburg in World War II in 1943, which at that time consisted of around 8,000 photographs, several thousand postcards, watercolors and drawings.

After the end of the war, Lachmund returned to Hamburg from British captivity in autumn 1945 and began collecting again in the same year. He also started giving lectures and organizing exhibitions. In 1962 Lachmund published his first book at the time of the imperial era and after two years the volume Alt-Altona appeared . Further publications on the history of Hamburg and the history of photography followed.

He archived around 40,000 postcards and 20,000 photographs, including rare calotypes by the photographer Charles Fuchs from the period before 1860. There were also around 150,000 motifs from newspapers, magazines and books. Lachmund's collection was one of the most important picture collections in Hamburg and was sold after his death.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Lachmund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Joachim W. Frank: Lachmund, Fritz . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 216-216 .
• For the 60th birthday of the Blankenese homeland researcher Fritz Lachmund . In: Blankenese . Monthly magazine of the Blankenese Citizens' Association. 24 year, no. 2 . Hamburg February 1971, p. 8-11 .