Walter Dorn

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Walter Dorn (born August 31, 1891 in Prussian Stargard in West Prussia, † February 8, 1957 in Bremen ) was a German publisher .

biography

Dorn was with the Imperial Navy before and during World War I and was most recently a naval officer. In 1918 he was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Wilhelmshaven . In 1920 he was released from military service and from that year represented a Berlin publishing house in Bremen.

In 1923 Dorn founded the Walter Dorn Verlag in Bremen-Horn , which published scientific and aesthetic literature, a. a. Works on spatial planning and on districts in Lower Saxony , biographies, commercial non-fiction books and the large atlas Lower Saxony.

In 1926 he also founded the industrial and commercial publishing house Walter Dorn , which u. a. Published address books and company manuals.

After the Second World War , subsidiary publishers were set up in Bielefeld , Hamburg , Hanover and Frankfurt am Main .

Also in the post-war period , the publishing house, to which a large printing company was affiliated, had its Hanoverian headquarters in the Wülfel district in the mid-1950s at the address Hildesheimer Chaussee 152 at the time .

The two publishers existed until 1981 even after Dorn's death.

See also

literature

  • Eberhard Lutze: Dorn, Walter Rudolf. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 117 (column 2) to p. 118 (column 2).
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Reichert, Karl Ludwig Graeger ( arrangement ): Walter Dorn Verlag , in Hanover (= picture city map by Hermann Bollmann , No. 13), with prefaces by Christian Kuhlemann ( IHK Hanover ), Wilhelm Weber and Karl Wiechert (state capital Hanover ) and Gustav Böhme ( Chamber of Crafts Hannover ), 1st edition 1–30 thousand, Braunschweig: Bollmann-Bildkarten-Verlag, 1955, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Dorn, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Stargard
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1957
Place of death Bremen