Wolfgang Görg

Wolfgang Görg (born April 13, 1911 ; † July 4, 1984 ) was a German photographer with his own postcard publisher .

Life

Wolfgang Görg completed an apprenticeship as a photographer and a master craftsman and has had his own photo shop and a postcard publisher in Johanngeorgenstadt at Karlsbader Strasse 2 in Johanngeorgenstadt since the beginning of the 1930s and after the war in Eibenstocker Strasse. Many contemporary events, such as the international ski jumping on Germany's first large jump hill, the Hans-Heinz-Schanze, which was inaugurated in 1929, was captured by Wolfgang Görg.

Wolfgang Görg had his own postcard publisher for over 50 years. He also published many of his photos with VEB Volkskunstverlag Reichenbach im Vogtland , which later became the publishing house Bild und Heimat.

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With his high-quality landscape and architecture photographs of the Western Ore Mountains on both sides of the German-Czech border, he gives future generations an idea of ​​the appearance of this area before the expulsion of the German population from Czechoslovakia in 1946 and the subsequent demolition of numerous localities. Of particular local importance, however, are the recordings of his hometown Johanngeorgenstadt, which had to be largely demolished from 1953 as a result of expanding mining by the SDAG Wismut .