Peter Kurze


Peter Kurze is a German publisher and author. He became known through his book series on the history of the automobile.

Life

Born 1955 in Bremen, after two one-year internships at a machine factory and a bank, he studied mechanical engineering and later business administration with a focus on marketing and corporate history. In 1980 he started his own business with a company for vintage car spare parts and literature. In 1987, Short wrote his first book. It was about the VW-Kübelwagen type 181 bucket. At the end of the 80s he was one of the founders of the GummikuH motorcycling magazine.
In 1995, the Bremen acquired the image archive, consisting of positives, negatives and rights of use, the photographer Gerhard Schammelt, mainly Lloyd-, Mercedes-Benz- and Volkswagen vehicles mapped. This base of nearly 12,000 images has been expanded by the purchase of other archives. Thus, Kurze was able to get the discounts and rights of the photographers Paul Botzenhardt, Rudolf Dodenhoff, Heinz Lutz, Walter Richleske, Hans Saebens, Karl-Heinz Witte and Hermann Ohlsen acquire. Today, his picture archive contains around 150,000 photos of automobiles from the 1950s and 1960s as well as the aerospace industry in Bremen of the 20s and 30s.
Brief published between 1996 and 2013, the book series "Cars from Bremen", the history of the Bremen motor vehicle industry. in the Delius Klasing Verlag he released the series "Moving Times", which presents various automobiles of the 50s. Short is currently working on a 14-volume Borgward chronicle in his specialty. Kurze is a member of the "F-Kubik" forum for vehicle history.

Works (selection)

As author

Bremen automotive industry

Bremen automotive industry