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

Life

Böttcher was born in Hanover. He passed his

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen yea ...

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 previou ...

, 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 Waldemar R. Röhrbein (9 September 19355 October 2014) was a German historian. He worked as a museum director in Lower Saxony, his last post being from 1976 to 1997 at the Historisches Museum Hannover, and was president of the . He contributed to ...

(ed.): ''. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart.'' Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, . * Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen (ed.): ''. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart.'' Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2002, . *

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, 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