Wilhelm Hauschild (photographer)

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Wilhelm Hauschild (born January 16, 1902 in Breslau ; † April 7, 1983 in Hanover ) was a German photographer and is considered Hanover's most important press photographer .

Life

Gravestone at the Engesohde cemetery

Hauschild was the son of a bricklayer. After the premature death of his parents, he became a non-commissioned officer in Northeim in 1916 , then a Reichswehr soldier and from 1918 a clerk at the General Command in Adolfstrasse in Hanover . From 1920 he took on various jobs at companies in Hanover. From 1924 he produced text and photo reports for Hanover newspapers. In 1930 he married Margarete Voice and then began working as a freelance press photographer. One of his most famous photographs emerged in the early 1930s at the King Platz , where just before the seizure of power by the National Socialists queues in front of the employment office in the former Ulanenkaserne are (now there, the former high-rise of Conti , now University ).

After a bombing raid, the publisher of the Lower Saxony daily newspaper published the brochure The Jewish Crimes of July 26, 1943 - Hanover's Destroyed Cultural Sites , in which photos by Wilhelm Hauschild were supposed to prove the “shame of Jewish sadism” after an “attack by North American air pirates”. During the air raids on Hanover on March 25, 1945, his entire photo archive (approx. 4 million photos) in Darwinstrasse was destroyed. After 1945, Hauschild was a photo reporter, first for the Allies , then for Hanoverian companies and finally especially for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1966 to 1978 he gave photography courses at the Volkshochschule Hannover . The multiple award-winning photographer signed the city of Hanover's Golden Book twice (1972 and 1977). Hauschild was a popular figure in the life of the city of Hanover: the photographer with bow tie, beret and metal ladder (for the photos from a “higher perspective”).

His grave is in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover.

Awards

Works

estate

Although around 4 million recordings from before 1945 were destroyed by the war, the works that have survived document Hauschild's history of the city of Hanover since 1920. His estate, most recently owned by the Madsack publishing company, is now archived in the Historical Museum on Hohen Ufer . The copyrights belong to the von Hauschild family.

Illustrated books

  • In the refugee camp. Benthe, Buchholz, Empelde and Stöcken in 1947/48 . Photos by Wilhelm Hauschild and Otto Umbehr (Umbo). Selected by Hans Christian Adam. Berlin-Kreuzberg: Nishen 1985. (Edition Photothek. 12) ISBN 3-88940-212-7
  • Linden 1930-1980 . Photographs by Wilhelm Hauschild. [Volume 1.] Hanover: TAK-Verlag 1995. ISBN 3-00-000283-9
  • Linden 1930-1980 . Photographs by Wilhelm Hauschild. Volume 2. Hannover: TAK-Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-00-000965-5
  • Hanover . Photographed by Wilhelm Hauschild. With a foreword and picture descriptions by Wolfgang Risse. Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris 2001. ISBN 3-923976-37-2
  • An old master. Wilhelm Hauschild's photographic legacy . Recorded by Hans-Peter Wiechers. Hanover: Madsack 2002.
  • Annual calendar with photographs by Wilhelm Hauschild from the Hanoverian bookstore Leuenhagen & Paris.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Hauschild  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Jewish crime of July 26, 1943 - Hanover destroyed cultural sites, published by the Reich Propaganda Office in Hanover, responsible for the content: Gaupresseamtsleiter Kurt Dittmann, Hanover 1943
personal data
SURNAME Hauschild, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1983
Place of death Hanover