Eugen Diederichs Explained

Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930)^[1] was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896.^[2] He moved on to Leipzig, where he published the early works of Hermann Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904. He started publishing the magazine Die Tat in 1912.^[3] His publishing firm, the Eugen Diederichs Verlag, played a central role in Germany's neo-conservative or revolutionary conservative movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.^[4]

Diedrichs married Helene Voigt in 1898; the couple separated in 1911.^[5] He married the writer Lulu von Strauss und Torney in 1916.^[6] Diederichs died in Jena in 1930.

Since 1988, Diederichs has become an imprint of the Hugendubel publishing house.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diederichs, Eugen, 1867–1930 . US Library of Congress.
2. Book: Smith, Helmut Walser . The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History . 485 . 2011 . 978-0199237395 . Oxford University Press.
3. Book: Staudenmaier, Peter . Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era . 82 . 2014 . BRILL . 978-9004270152.
4. Book: Stark, Gary D.. Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933. The University of North Carolina Press. 1981. 0-8078-1452-0. Chapel Hill.
5. Book: Bédé, Jean Albert . Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature . 857 . Edgerton, William Benbow . 1980 . Columbia University Press . 0231037171.
6. Book: A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature . 284 . Furness . Raymond . Humble. Malcolm . 2003 . Routledge . 1134747640.
7. Web site: About Diederichs Publishers . Random House . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150227004304/http://www.randomhouse.de/diederichs/verlag_engl.jsp . February 27, 2015 . mdy-all .