Peter Kurze is a German publisher and author. He became known through his book series on the history of the automobile.

Peter Kurze
Kurze in 2014
Born1955 (age 7071)
Bremen, Germany
OccupationsPublisher and author
Websitehttp://www.peterkurze.de/

Life

edit

Born 1955 in Bremen, after two one-year internships at a machine factory and a bank, he studied mechanical engineering and later business administration with a focus on marketing and corporate history. In 1980 he started his own business with a company for vintage car spare parts and literature. In 1987, Short wrote his first book. It was about the VW-Kübelwagen type 181 bucket. At the end of the 80s he was one of the founders of the GummikuH motorcycling magazine.

In 1995, the Bremen acquired the image archive, consisting of positives, negatives and rights of use, the photographer Gerhard Schammelt, mainly Lloyd-, Mercedes-Benz- and Volkswagen vehicles mapped. This base of nearly 12,000 images has been expanded by the purchase of other archives. Thus, Kurze was able to get the discounts and rights of the photographers Paul Botzenhardt (German and French automobiles), Rudolf Dodenhoff (various brands), Heinz Lutz (GDR vehicles), Walter Richleske (Borgward), Hans Saebens (various brands), Karl-Heinz Witte (Lloyd and Goliath) and Hermann Ohlsen (Architecture Bremen) acquire.[1] Today, his picture archive contains around 150,000 photos of automobiles from the 1950s and 1960s as well as the aerospace industry (Henrich Fockes Focke-Wulf company) in Bremen of the 20s and 30s.

Brief published between 1996 and 2013, the book series "Cars from Bremen" (13 volumes), the history of the Bremen motor vehicle industry (Borgward, Hanomag, Mercedes-Benz). in the Delius Klasing Verlag he released the series "Moving Times", which presents various automobiles of the 50s. Short is currently working on a 14-volume Borgward chronicle in his specialty. Kurze is a member of the "F-Kubik" forum for vehicle history.

Works (selection)

edit

As author

edit

Bremen automotive industry

edit

other producers

edit

Varia

edit
  • Kurze/Stünkel/Ziesemer: Die Geschichte der Luftfahrt in Bremen. Bogenschütz-Verlag, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-927485-03-9.
  • Kaack/Kurze: Flugzeuge aus Bremen – Luftfahrtgeschichte der Hansestadt. Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-472-0.
  • Kaack/Kurze: Industrie in Bremen. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8313-2322-7.
  • Kurze/Steiner: Motorräder aus Zschopau – DKW, IFA, MZ. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89595-146-3.

YouTube

edit

As a publisherer

edit

Bremen automotive industry

edit

Varia

edit

References

edit
  1. "art – Das Kunstmagazin: Borgward Fotoarchiv wiederentdeckt". Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
edit