Dirk Böttcher (13 October 1921 – 23 January 2011) was a German

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master, author and president of the association of Friends of the

Historisches Museum Hannover (german: Historisches Museum Hannover) is an historical museum situated in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The museum was founded in 1903 as the Homeland Museum of the City of Hanover (). Its collections are related to the histor ...

Life

Böttcher was born in Hanover. He passed his

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at the and was drafted to the

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previous ...

, serving until 1945. In 1948 he became a master printing teacher and received the Betriebleiter diploma of the Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucker in Munich. Until 1964, Böttcher was head of a printing shop in São Paulo. He then was associate of the Carl Küster printing company in Hanover. He was a long-term president of the association of Friends of the

. Böttcher died at age 89 in Hanover..Obituary
29 January 2011

Publications

Böttcher is co-author of the following works: * Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): ''. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart.'' Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, . * Dirk Böttcher,

Klaus Mlynek Klaus Mlynek (born 16 January 1936) is a German historian and scientific archivist. The long-term director of the Stadtarchiv Hannover is one of the editors and authors of the ', an encyclopedia of Hanover. Life Born in Poznań, Poland, Mlyne ...

, Waldemar R. Röhrbein,

Hugo Thielen Hugo Thielen (born 1946) is a German freelance author and editor, who is focused on the history of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, in a lexicon of the city, another one especially of its art and culture, and a third of biographies. He co-au ...

(ed.): ''. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart.'' Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2002, . *

Helmut Knocke Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a Germans, German History of architecture, architecture historian and author. Life Hemut Knocke studied architecture, with a special focus on the history of building, at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) in his ho ...

, Hugo Thielen (authors), Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): ''. Handbuch und Stadtführer.'' Schäfer, Hannover 1994, . *Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen (authors), Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): ''Hannover. Kunst- und Kulturlexikon. Handbuch und Stadtführer.'' 4th, updated and extended edition. Zu Klampen, Springe 2007, . * ''Eine Druckerei im Wandel. Meine kleine Berufsgeschichte vornehmlich in der Carl-Küster-Druckerei von 1886''. In ', Neue Folge 54, 2000, .

References

External links

* * Jens Böttcher
''Herzlich Willkommen bei der Carl Küster Druckerei GmbH''
on ''druckerei-kuester.de'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Bottcher, Dirk German printers 1921 births 2011 deaths People from Hanover German expatriates in Brazil