You are bidding on a typewritten one letter the Georg DW Callwey publishing bookstore (Munich) from 1936.

Aimed at Kurt Döbler, head of the adult education center in Erfurt.

Kurt Döbler, b. 1900 too Erfurt, socio-political studies, lecturer and head of the Erfurt adult education center 1933-1937, then dismissed by the fascists, 1945-1949 city councilor in Gotha, author of numerous religious-cultural essays.

Answer to a query from Döbler daughters of Journalist, novelist and cultural historian Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897)to provide financial help to the impoverished sisters Hedwig Riehl (1867-1947), a music teacher, and Elisabeth Riehl (1861-1937), who is in the hospital, living in Erfurt.

The publisher refuses support because only small and non-profitable works by Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl have been published there. Döbler should contact the Cotta publishing house, which published the majority of Riehl's works.

Format:one A4 page.

Condition: Letter folded lengthwise and crosswise and punched on the side. Paper slightly stained and slightly wrinkled. Please also note the pictures!

At the same time, I offer further letters regarding help for the Riehl daughters!

About the Callwey publishing house, the publishing house founder Georg Callwey and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (source: wikipedia):

Callwey, short for Georg DW Callwey (Verlag) GmbH & Co. KG, is a German publisher with a focus on construction technology and architecture.

History: The publishing house was founded in Munich in 1884 by Georg DW Callwey. Callwey publishes in the areas of planning and design around the house, lifestyle, living, design, architecture, landscape architecture, crafts and restoration. The offer ranges from an extensive book program on the topics of building, living, gardening and cooking to specialist magazines in the areas of architecture and crafts such as "Der Baumeister", "Garten und Landschaft", "Topos", "Die Mappe", "Stein" and "Restauro" through to offerings of digital products, events, awards, symposia, yearbooks and corporate publishing services.

The Callwey publishing house gained national fame when in 1894 it took over 50% of the shares in the magazine Der Kunstwart from Ferdinand Avenarius, which was the leading educational newspaper for the middle bourgeoisie at the time. Avenarius and Callwey made an important contribution to cultural history until the start of the First World War in 1914. Her writings, including many published for the Dürerbund, had a great influence on the education of young people, especially students and elementary school teachers, and were part of the life reform movement. In 1996, Laterna Magica Verlag, which specialized in books on the practice of photography, was taken over.[1] The program has now been discontinued.

The Callwey publishing house is run by the fourth generation of the Baur-Callwey family.

Publications

The company is one of the leading architectural publishers in the German-speaking region with the topics of construction, planning and design, renovation and restoration. From the beginning, both books and specialist magazines were published. A total of eight magazines are published. Callwey publishes the titles in the field of construction technology

folder,

Builder,

Stone.

In the field of landscape architecture, the publisher has other specialist magazines with its titles Topos (English language, four issues per year) and Garten + Landschaft (monthly in German). The specialist magazine for restorers and artisans Restauro also appears eight times a year.

Approximately 40 novelties. Licenses are sold worldwide, including the USA and Japan.

Georg Dietrich Wilhelm Callwey (* 22. October 1854 in Hamm; † 25. February 1931 in Munich) was a German publishing bookseller.

Life and work: Georg Callwey was a son of the Hammer Tanner and farmer Wilhelm Callwey and Sophie Fluhme from Çamen. He learned publishing and was considered smart, conscientious, thrifty and disciplined. In 1884 he moved to Munich and opened what is now called Callwey Publishing in cramped quarters. He initially published particularly beautiful literature and then published an art magazine, the painter's newspaper “Die Mappe”. In 1894 he met the still young Ferdinand Avenarius, whose “art warden” was not yet known to a wider audience. Callwey took the magazine into his publishing program and invested almost all of his own funds in it. The magazine began to be successful at the turn of the millennium.

Callwey then published the “Master Pictures for the German House”, the “Happy Book” and publications of the Dürerbund as well as a larger series of beautiful literature with resonant titles. From 1906 he also published the Baumeister and thus determined the direction of the publishing house. This focused on the construction industry and painting techniques. From 1932 onwards he published further cultural titles with the Kunstwarts' German Magazine.

Callwey was married to the American Hetty Figels. The daughter Elsbeth (1888–1937) married Karl Baur, who took over the publishing house.

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, from 1883 by Riehl (* 6. May 1823 in Biebrich; † 16. November 1897 in Munich) was a German journalist, novelist and cultural historian. In his works he emphasized social structures early on and thus gained influence on the development of folklore in the 19th century. Century, whose scientific founder he is considered.

Life: Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl was born in Biebrich as the son of the ducal Nassau castle administrator Friedrich August Riehl (1789–1839) and his wife Elisabeth Riehl (1793–1856). His father committed suicide in 1839. He first attended the Latin school in Wiesbaden, then the high school in Weilburg, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1841.

From 1841 to 1843 he studied theology in Marburg, Tübingen and Giessen. The motives for this study were his father's suicide and the poor financial situation. After passing his exams, he turned to philosophy, history and art history, which he studied in Bonn, among other places. Ernst Moritz Arndt was one of his academic teachers there. Under Arndt's influence, Riehl, who actually wanted to become a village priest after passing the theological candidate exam, decided to work as a freelance writer on cultural history and social politics.

He had been active as a writer and journalist since 1841. Topics such as economics, church politics and forestry and agriculture should also follow. Riehl wrote newspaper articles in Frankfurt am Main, Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden and published the Nassauische Allgemeine Zeitung from 1848 to 1851, while at the same time he was entrusted with the musical direction of the court theater in Wiesbaden. The Allgemeine Zeitung was a newspaper published on January 1st. Daily newspaper founded in April 1848 by the Nassau government to represent its positions. Riehl appears to have resigned from active participation at the end of April 1850. His successor was Alois Boczek, who set the paper on a course of political Catholicism. The resulting dispute with the Nassau government led to the 22nd August 1854 for the closure of the Nassauische Allgemeine Zeitung.

From 1851 to 1854 Riehl worked in Augsburg as editor of the local Allgemeine Zeitung.

In 1854 Maximilian II brought him. to the Munich court, where he was “chief editor for press affairs of the royal court. House and the Exterior” and received an honorary professorship at the Faculty of Economics, which was converted into a full professorship for cultural history and statistics in 1859. His lectures were among the best attended at the university. In 1861 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1883 Riehl was raised to the nobility. In 1885 he was appointed director of the Bavarian National Museum and general curator of Bavaria's art monuments and antiquities.

Family: Riehl married Bertha von Knoll (1824–1894) from Stuttgart in Eppstein (Taunus) in 1846; before her wedding she was a successful singer at the Frankfurt City Theater. The couple had five sons, one of whom died young, and four daughters, including:

Heinrich Karl (1852–1910), farmer in Oberföhring

Berthold (1858–1911), professor of art history at the University of Munich

Helene Christine (1848–1919), landscape painter ∞ Christian August Vogler (1841–1925), Dr. phil., professor at the Agricultural University in Berlin

Elisabeth Ida (1861–1937), teacher of language and music at the Neumayer Girls' Institute in Munich

Hedwig Antonie (1867–1947), violinist, music teacher in Erfurt.

After the death of his first wife, he married Antonie Eckardt († 1916) in Stuttgart in 1896. Riehl died in Munich at the age of 74.

Personal views: Riehl's academic interest was in the “morality” of the German people. Methodologically, it was groundbreaking: the researcher should explore his field. He was one of the first to scientifically address social and cultural historical issues. Among other things, he attempted to develop a “folk studies as a science” or to establish a “science of the people”.

His most famous work is The Natural History of the People as the Basis of a German Social Policy (4 volumes, 1851–1869), in which geographical factors, social conditions and German culture and way of life are emphasized. In the first volume, Land and People (1854), Riehl placed the national character of the European peoples in a direct relationship with the environment that surrounded them: characteristic landscapes of the English and French were the tamed park and the cleared field, the counterpart of which he found in the wilderness of the German forest saw. In the third volume, The Family (1855), he analyzed the family as the basis of all social developments and as the nucleus of society. The basic approach was his dichotomous view of gender: the difference “between woman and man” results, like a law, in “natural necessity” in the “uneven structure of civil and political society”.[1] Riehl was not only critical of urbanization in a time of industrialization, but even claimed that it was destroying families. Furthermore, the urban space should not displace “forest, pasture and water”, thereby attacking the influences on the condition of the landscape that accompanied the development of a civilized society far removed from nature. Riehl also saw urban areas as the “breeding ground for the socialist spirit of egalitarianism” as a result of the isolation of desperate individuals, which in turn was due to the destruction of families. Here his penchant for subjective generalizations and his conservatism become apparent.

However, Riehl did not oppose any developments from the cities. He stated that “inertia” in the social conservatism of the rural population and “movement” in the progressive attitude of the city dwellers were equally fundamental to society.

Significance: Due to his subject matter, Riehl is considered a pioneer or founder of, among other things, folklore, cultural history and sociology. Despite some subjective generalizations, his theories have been important for the development of Germany's cultural and social history. His descriptions of numerous, even remote, milieus (e.g. traveling theaters, rogues) are still valuable. However, his rejection of analytical procedures and “book scholarship” (19th century) century!), there was less schooling in favor of acquired experiences and literary expression; However, Girtler and Honer, among others, use this method in contemporary German-speaking cultural sociology.

Riehl is also considered one of the pioneers of nature conservation in the sense of protecting wilderness and not (only) cultural landscapes. In 1857, in addition to the “right of the field,” he called for the “right of the wilderness”: “For centuries it was a matter of progress to unilaterally represent the right of the field; Now, on the other hand, it is also a matter of progress to represent the law of the wilderness alongside the law of arable land. And no matter how much the economist resists and revolts against this fact, the people-researching social politician must still persevere and fight for the right of the wilderness.”[2] The successful development of a “people’s organism” does not only require the training of cultural ones peculiarity (cf. Herder), but also the preservation of wilderness as a reservoir of original, unalienated power that protects against the negative consequences of industrialization, urbanization, etc. protects, on the other hand, as a place of absence of social constraints and thus personal freedom, where people can become aware of their natural individuality, natural morality and individual self-responsibility.

However, Riehl is also considered one of the main pioneers of the legend of the patriarchal, idyllic extended family as a typical way of life of the pre-industrial era, which was only destroyed by the beginning of industrialization, but which, according to today's knowledge, did not exist in this form and distribution. In 1855, in the work The Family, Riehl appeared before the public for the first time with his family sociological program and thereby founded the legend of the pre-industrial extended family in the “whole house”, whereby he projected wishful ideas backwards into the past and then made these the basis of his 'findings' .

Honors: Riehl received the Order of Maximilian (1871), was appointed Privy Councilor (1889) and was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit (1897). In Riehl's honor, a second educational institution, the Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Kolleg, founded as a foundation by the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts, was named after him in 1958.

Fonts

The story of Eisele and Beisele. Novel, 1848

The natural history of the people as the basis of German social policy, 1851–1869 [including numerous new editions]

1. Country and people, 1854

2. Civil society, 1851

3. The family, 1855

4. Hiking book, 1869

Musical character heads, 1853

Hausmusik, Fifty Songs of German Poets set to music by WHRiehl, 1855. [2. ed. 1860]

Cultural-historical novellas, 1856

The Palatinate. A Rhenish folk picture, 1857

Cultural studies from three centuries, 1859

German work, 1861

Stories from Old Times, 1863–1864

On the concept of civil society, lecture, 1864

New novella book, 1867

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as a university friend, 1873

Free lectures, 1871 and 1885

From the corner. 7 new novellas, 1874

Neideck Castle, novella, 1875

At the end of the day. 6 new novellas, 1880

Life puzzles. 5 novellas, 1888

Cultural-historical character heads, 1891

Religious Studies of a World Child, 1894

A Whole Man, novel, 1897

Jörg Muckenbuber. In: German novella treasure. Ed. by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 8. 2. ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 67–94. In: Weitin, Thomas (ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German treasure of novellas. Darmstadt/Konstanz, 2016. (Digital copy and full text in the German Text Archive)