Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (born 18 May 1930 in
Berlin) is a German
publisher.
Life
Holzapfel was born as the son of the publisher Adolf Holzapfel. After his death in 1958 he took over the
Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt (NDV) founded by his father. Under his leadership, the company increasingly specialized in political manuals. In 1971 the company moved to
Rheinbreitbach
Rheinbreitbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in north of Rhineland-Palatinate, bordering North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Administratively it belongs to the municipality (''Verbandsgemeinde'') of Unkel. The town is an officially ...
.
In addition to
Kürschners Volkshandbuch Deutscher Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Common ...
, handbooks on the German state parliaments and the
European Parliament were published. In 1990, a popular handbook with the biographies of the members of the first freely elected
Volkskammer was published. In cooperation with the school television of the
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), NDV published accompanying material. In 1998, it launched the biographical database ''politikus.de'' on the Internet.
At the beginning of the 2000s he gradually retired from the operative business of the publishing house and handed over the management to his son Andreas. He lives in
Linz am Rhein.
Honors
*2011:
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his great contributions to political education
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holzapfel, Klaus-Jürgen
1930 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Berlin
20th-century German publishers (people)
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany