About Heinrich Wenner
Lived 1912 – 2008 (aged 95–96). Heinrich Wenner was a bookseller.
Heinrich Theodor Wenner (Osnabrück, Germany, 1912–2008) was an antiquarian bookseller. Wenner, along with the city of Osnabrück, organized Germany's first reading competition in the early 1950s and is thus considered the creator of this competition.
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Who was Heinrich Wenner?
German bookseller (1912–2008)
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Heinrich Wenner was born in 1912.
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Heinrich Wenner died in 2008.
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Heinrich Wenner was a bookseller.
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