Eugen Diederichs

Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930)[1] was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896.

[2] He moved on to Leipzig,[3] where he published the early works of Hermann Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904.

[5] His publishing firm, the Eugen Diederichs Verlag, played a central role in Germany's neo-conservative or revolutionary conservative movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.

[3] He married the writer Lulu von Strauss und Torney in 1916.