Ernst Hermann Heinrich Rowohlt (23 June 1887 in Bremen – 1 December 1960 in Hamburg) was a German publisher who founded the Rowohlt publishing house in 1908 and headed it in its repeated incarnations until his death.
[citation needed] As a publisher, he specialized in works by American authors including Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
[3] He insisted on keeping his Jewish staff and editors and remained publisher for officially disapproved writers such as Hans Fallada.
In 1936 he allowed Jewish author Bruno Adler to publish a biography of Adalbert Stifter under a pseudonym.
[1] Rowohlt handed control of the firm to his son Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt and fled to Brazil, but he returned to Germany during the war and became a captain in the Wehrmacht on the eastern front until his politically motivated discharge in 1943.