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Following the death of Florian, his mother, Karl Friedrich's widow Eva Baedeker, née Konitz (1913−1984), piloted the firm until she died in 1984. She was the last Baedeker to play an active role in running the Baedeker publishing house founded in 1827, and negotiated the sale of the Freiburg branch to Langenscheidt before she died. However, the "Karl Baedeker" brand name has been retained by all subsequent owners of the company, in one form or another. Southern Germany and Austria, including Hungary and Transylvania (4thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1880, OCLC 03764032 This was an improvement even on the elder Karl Baedeker, who once demonstrated his refusal to trust anyone else’s eyes by writing in the 1851 edition of Deutschland : “The writer of these Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen (10thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912, hdl: 2027/uva.x030531120 Hans Baedeker's released 10 guidebooks in German between 1928 and 1942. Several were commissioned by the Nazis, who had been vetting Baedeker guides, proposing and effecting changes in the text, as they saw fit, and laying down to whom certain guides could be sold. Baedeker was asked to publish a guidebook for the German Army of Occupation in Poland, with history written as the Nazis wished it to be written, as the introduction to the 1943 book Das Generalgouvernement reveals.

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a b "World War Two Norwich 'bomb map' restored". BBC. 19 February 2014 . Retrieved 9 September 2018. During the 1860s Baedeker published guidebooks to Italy (in three volumes) and to London. But it concentrated its energies less on territorial growth than on revisions of earlier volumes (much of northern Italy had already appeared in the handbook to Austria), and the character of the guidebooks remained essentially as the founder had left it. During the 1870s, around the time when the younger Karl Baedeker’s health failed and the youngest brother, Fritz, took his place, the firm began its great period of expansion. In 1872 it moved its editorial offices to Leipzig, the center of German publishing. From there, every few years it issued an entirely new handbook, each with a front cover whose lettering declared ownership of some vast new region. Baedeker’s Palestine and Syria appeared in 1875, Baedeker’s Lower Egypt in 1877, Baedeker’s Sweden and Norway in 1879, Baedeker’s Russia and Baedeker’s Greece in 1883, Baedeker’s France in two volumes (later four) in 1884-85, Baedeker’s Great Britain in 1887, Baedeker’s Upper Egypt in 1891, Baedeker’s United States in 1893, Baedeker’s Canada in 1894, Baedeker’s Spain and Portugal in 1897, Baedeker’s Riviera in 1898, Baedeker’s Constantinople and Asia Minor in 1905, Baedeker’s Mediterranean (which added North Africa to previously occupied territory) in 1909, Baedeker’s India in 1914. 2 Before enlarging its territory Baedeker often gave advance warning in the form of an “excursion” appended to an existing handbook. Southern Italy, for example, included an “excursion to Athens” fourteen years before Baedeker published Greece. London included excursions outside the capital thirteen years before publication of Great Britain. An excursion to Peking was added to Russia in 1904; only the outbreak of war in 1914 halted Baedeker’s advance into China and Japan. La Suisse, les lacs italiens, Milan, Turin, Gênes et Nice: Manuel du Voyageur (in French) (4thed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1859, hdl: 2027/uva.x001702608, OCLC 887682060

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen (9thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02145706 Although Switzerland gave Karl Baedeker countless opportunities to quote Schiller, it could not distract him from the requirements of scholarship—he reportedly hired Theodore Mommsen, no less, to prepare notes on Roman settlements—or from the petty annoyances of travel. His notes on the Bernese Oberland concluded with this heartfelt paragraph of warning: Palestine Hotel (landlord, Kaminitz), in the German colony, Hotel de France (pi. 14 3; landlord, Bost), on the Jerusalem road; Howard’s Hotel (pi. 13; landlord, Howard, an Arab), on the road to the German colony. These are second class hotels and a little cheaper; bargain with the landlord advisable. James Findlay is given the credit for two-thirds of the content in the Canada guidebook, first published in 1894. [ citation needed] The Canada guide is the sole classic Baedeker to have been published only in English. [ citation needed] Known as "The Hell Fire Raid", three enemy aircraft which were later destroyed, dropped incendiaries and high explosives, causing several large fires. Notable examples included the thatched department store, Bonds, on All Saint's Green as well as the historic Old Boar's Head inn, which were gutted by fire. St Julian's Church in King Street was hit, as well as the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Theatre Street. 20 Timberhill, known as The Star and Crown public house, was destroyed, as was 72 St Giles Street and Heigham Grove. Many 17th century buildings were obliterated.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baedeker, Karl". Encyclopædia Britannica (11thed.). Cambridge University Press.

Verlag Karl Baedeker, founded by Karl Baedeker on 1 July 1827, is a German publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred to simply as " Baedekers" (a term sometimes used to refer to similar works from other publishers, or travel guides in general), contain, among other things, maps and introductions; information about routes and travel facilities; and descriptions of noteworthy buildings, sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists. Florian Baedeker, a keen parachute jumper, was killed in a parachuting accident on October 26, 1980. He was 36. The Dominion of Canada, with Newfoundland and an excursion to Alaska (3rded.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907, OCLC 03077397 . Fritz Baedeker became the most successful travel guide publisher of all time and turned the publishing house into the most famous and reputable publisher of travel guides in the world. In 1909, Leipzig University conferred an honorary Ph.D. (a rare honour at the time) on him at its 500th anniversary convocation. This era in its history was brought to an end by the outbreak of World War I, after which the house of Baedeker went into decline, the victim of the post-war international geopolitical and economic conditions. Consequently, in 1920, Fritz broke with tradition and for some time thereafter, Baedeker guides to German cities and regions carried a limited amount of advertising.Karl Baedeker had three sons, Ernst, Karl and Fritz and after his death each, in turn, took over the running of the firm. Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol (7thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1877, OCLC 09941114 .