Wolfgang Weidlich (publisher)

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Wolfgang Weidlich (born July 22, 1928 in Chemnitz ; † June 7, 2019 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German publisher and bookseller who made a contribution to researching the history of his hometown Chemnitz.

Life

Weidlich grew up in Chemnitz, where he attended Reform-Real-Gymnasium. From March 1947 he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig and in the Nicolaische Buchhandlung in Berlin . After completing his training in 1949, he worked in his mother's lending library and in a Chemnitz assortment bookstore. On August 21, 1951, he moved to Frankfurt am Main , as he was unable to convert the lending library into a bookshop for political reasons. On April 1, 1954, he founded an antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt with borrowed start-up capital of DM 2,000 . In 1956 he also founded a publishing house in which he published around 600 publications on Saxon and German history. In 1984 Weidlich sold the publisher, but remained active as an editor for five years and as an antiquarian until 2000 .

After the Peaceful Revolution , he became ideologically and financially involved in his hometown, among other things through the sponsors of the Chemnitz City Library, which he co-founded . He donated around 40 car loads of books to the Chemnitz City Library . Weidlich provided books, donations in kind and money with a cumulative value of around half a million euros to his native city of Chemnitz . For the re-established Chemnitz History Association , he financed the Wolfgang Weidlich Prize for History , founded in 1996 and named after him, which was awarded to schoolchildren and student work on the history of Chemnitz and the surrounding area and which was awarded eleven times by 2017.

Writings (as editor)

  • Chemnitz . Verl. Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 1992, ISBN 3-910186-04-1 .
  • Saxony. Photo book of home . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-8035-8521-X (together with Helmut Sieber ).
  • Chemnitz. From 1953 Karl-Marx-Stadt . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-8035-8487-6 .
  • Old Saxony. 30 steel engravings and lithographs from the 19th century . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1968.

literature

  • That's how I turned 80. My life: memory logs in brief. Chemnitz, Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Wolfgang Weidlich publisher, Frankfurt am Main. 25 years of publishing activity, 1956–1981 . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Weidlich passed away. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Bernt Ture von zur Mühlen: 50 years of antiquarian bookshop and publishing house Wolfgang Weidlich . In: From the second-hand bookshop . No. 60 , July 28, 1995, p. A274-A275 .
  3. ↑ a b Addi Jacobi : Wolfgang Weidlich , Stadtstreicher Chemnitz, accessed on July 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Gerhard Wagner : On the death of Wolfgang Weidlich. In: Messages. Membership magazine of the German Castle Association No. 129, December 2019, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Founder and honorary board member of our association Wolfgang Weidlich has died , sponsor of the Chemnitz City Library e. V., accessed on July 3, 2019.
  6. ^ Schoolchildren and student competition organized by the Chemnitz History Association (Wolfgang Weidlich Prize). Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weidlich, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2019
Place of death Frankfurt am Main