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Gerhard Ludwig was born on 1909, is a German bookseller. Discover Gerhard Ludwig's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1909

Gerhard Ludwig (1909–1994) was a German bookseller.

Born into a very poor working-class family in Berlin, his mother worked in an ammunitions factory, and his father was a beer deliverer and an alcoholic.

During the Third Reich he worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a newspaper which sheltered non-conformist writers.

1941

He was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen between 1941 and 1945, for writing a cheeky post-card about pompous Nazi references to Frederick The Great.

1945

He was liberated by the Red Army on April 22, 1945, by which time he had developed severe tuberculosis.

1946

In 1946, he received a credit and took over the bookshop in Cologne main station.

1950

Between 1950 and 1956, he illegally used the third-class waiting hall in Cologne main station for political and cultural discussion events ("Mittwochgespräche"), which were important for German education in democracy.

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public figures had to face a crowd and answer questions they would not know beforehand - something completely unknown in Germany before.

1956

The events stopped when Cologne main station was re-designed after 1956.

Among the invited guests were

and all members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's cabinet, with the sole exception of Adenauer himself.

He created the first shop for paperbacks.

1988

His shops were leased from the German Railway Authority (Deutsche Bundesbahn), and while he succeeded in cheating on the lease rates for many years, he was eventually found out and - under pressure from creditors - had to sell his shops in 1988.