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Leipzig: Wednesday 28 May 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 on Wednesday 28 May due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

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Bertold Hack 1925–1994 (Partial estate / Book history)
Publications, documents for the “Bibliographische Arbeitsbericht” (Bibliographic Work Report); collections of materials, e.g. on Hack’s work for the Börsenverein, the history of the railway station book trade, book dealer Emig in Amorbach, Hanns W. Eppelsheimer, Ernst Hauswedell, Georg Heinrich Meyer and Lambert Schneider; correspondence, e.g. with Theo W. Dengler, Annemarie Meiner, Georg Kurt Schauer, Lambert Schneider and Bernhard Wendt; photos.
Scope: 4 archival boxes. Period: 1925–1985
In the catalog

Bernhard Hartmann 1849–1928 (Partial estate / Book history)
Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics and other documents, mainly relating to his activity as the chairman of the local book dealers’ association in Elberfeld-Barmen and as a member of the Börsenverein's executive board and other book trade committees.
Scope: 8 archival boxes. Period: 1883–1918
In the catalog

Wilhelm Henckel 1825–1910 (Partial estate / Book history)
Documents relating to the transfer of the estate and letters from Henckel’s Russian friends, including L. N. Tolstoy.
Scope: 1 archival box. Period: 1875–1928
In the catalog

Egbert Herfurth *1945 (Pre-mortem legacy / Book design / illustration)
With more than 200 illustrated books, posters and free works, Egbert Herfurth is one of Leipzig’s most well-known illustrators. His pre-mortem legacy, which was handed over in 2016, contains more than 8,000 drawings (drafts, sketches and proofs through to the finished book), posters, bookplates, correspondence and original printing blocks.
Scope: 14 linear metres

Franz Hinze 1919–2013 (Partial estate / Book history)
Collections of materials on the retail book market; press reports on the book trade cooperative “Leistungsgemeinschaft Buchhandel”; documents relating to international book market research; unpublished works by other authors on book market research, the religious book trade and the railway station book trade; materials relating to the “Verband Deutscher Lesezirkel” (Association of German Reading Circles); materials on the railway station book trade; lecture scripts, documents from Hinze's own seminars; materials on the history of the army book trade.
Scope: 45 archival boxes
Period: 1940–1943; 1962–1997
In the catalog

Peter Hobbing 1842–1931 (Partial estate / Book history)
Book dealership advertisements, brochures, newspaper clippings, reviews, letters, hand-written notes and excerpts from various texts and journals on matters relating to the book trade and its history.
Scope: 1 archival box. Period: 1851–1922
In the catalog

Julius Hoffmann Lifespan: 1885–1988 (Part-archive / Publishing history)
Publishing contracts, balance sheets.
Scope: 3 archival boxes. Period: 1886–1975
In the catalog

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