Willy Pragher

Wilhelm "Willy" Alexander Pragher (born May 4, 1908 in Berlin ; † June 25, 1992 in Freiburg i. Br. ) Was a German photographer and photojournalist of national importance.

Life

Willy Pragher was born to a chemical engineer from Bucharest and a German mother. He attended schools in Berlin and Stuttgart . In 1924 he started taking photos, in 1928 he began an apprenticeship at Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin. From 1930 to 1932 he trained in commercial graphics and decoration at the Reimann School in Berlin, the largest private arts and crafts school in Germany. There he was trained in photography from 1931. From 1932 he worked as a freelance press photographer for Ullstein-Verlag , Berliner Illustrierte and Badische Zeitung , among others , set up his own photo service and made numerous trips. From 1939 to 1945 he worked as an advertising photographer for an oil company in Romania, and in 1944 he was drafted into the Volkssturm in Bucharest. From 1945 to 1949 he was a prisoner of war in Siberia. Then he returned to Freiburg i.Br. back to where he resumed his work and where he lived until his death.

estate

His extensive estate of around one million photographs is in the Freiburg State Archives and consists of around 6,000 glass plate negatives, 27,000 slides, 110,000 paper positives and several hundred thousand film negatives.

Book publications

Corsica . Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1983
Berlin transport hub in the 1930s . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg im Breisgau 1985 (2nd, extended edition)
Berlin traffic turmoil . Museum for Transport and Technology, Berlin 1992
Time recordings 1926–1991 . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1992
Ski and toboggan good! Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001
Country and people in southern Baden in the 50s . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002
Freiburg . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002

Web links

Commons : Willy Pragher - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Willy Pragher in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Willy Pragher in the German Digital Library
Landesarchiv BW : The estate “Willy Pragher” in the Freiburg State Archives
Compilation of photos of Pragher related to the Berlin U-Bahn in the Berlin U-Bahn archive

Individual evidence

↑ Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to its destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 558
↑ Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to the destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , pp. 298 f., 309
↑ Patrik Müller: An eye for the essentials. Badische Zeitung, September 18, 2003, accessed on March 19, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pragher, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pragher, Wilhelm Alexander (full name); Pragher, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1992
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to its destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 558

[2] Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to the destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , pp. 298 f., 309

[3] Patrik Müller: An eye for the essentials. Badische Zeitung, September 18, 2003, accessed on March 19, 2019 .