Gotthard Laske

Gotthard Laske (March 3, 1882 in Stargard – November 23, 1936 in Berlin) was a German confectioner, bibliophile, and patron of the arts.

Laske encouraged the printing of many poems at the Officina Serpentis and paid the production costs.

His wife Nelly Laske, whose last place of residence was in Berlin's Bleibtreustraße, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.

[3] The son Ernst Laske was able to emigrate to Israel with some of his father's books and ran an antiquarian bookshop there for many years.

[5][6] The two catalogs in which Laske's books are listed were printed in only a few copies and are among the greatest bibliophile rarities.

Gotthard Laske's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee
Stumbling stone for Laske's wife Nelly, in front of the house, Bleibtreustraße 25, in Berlin-Charlottenburg