Peter Suhrkamp [SEP] country of citizenship
In 1933 he joined the company’s board. In 1935 he married , who had started a career as an actress but been obliged to retire on health grounds. A year later the S. Fischer Verlag company was split when Gottfried Bermann Fischer moved (initially) to Vienna, taking part of the business with him. Part of the business had to remain in Germany, being purchased by Peter Suhrkamp, who would continue to lead it till he was accused of high treason and arrested by the Gestapo in April 1944. The legal
Peter Suhrkamp
Peter Suhrkamp (full name "Johann Heinrich Suhrkamp"; 28 March 1891, Hatten – 31 March 1959, Frankfurt) was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.
Early years.
Suhrkamp was a farmer’s son from Kirchhatten, some south-east of Oldenburg.
The house where he was born is still standing: in the town hall at Kirchhatten there is a bust of him by Johannes Cernota (2012) as well as a portrait, while a few of his works are