Elmar Faber

Elmar Faber (1 April 1934 – 3 December 2017) was a German book publisher.

He served as head of the now defunct publisher Edition Leipzig from 1975 to 1983.

He was later head of Aufbau-Verlag from 1983 to 1992, at a time when it was one of the largest publishing house in East Germany.

[1] He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.

[3] Faber died on 3 December 2017 in Leipzig, at the age of 83.