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15a Chrenpräfident Dr. Dr. h. c. Börries, Freiherr von Münchhausen - Windischleuba Chrenmemberen Dr. H. C. Karl Klingspor-Offenbach · Prof. Dr, Anton Kippenberg- Leipzig · Dr, h. C, Carl Ernst Poeschel- Leipzig • Dr, H.C. Wilhelm Schäfer-Ludwigshafen • Prof. Ignatz Wiemeler-Leipzig It is not enough to read books, one must also possess them. The people who are scolded as book-arrested are in reality the true wise ones, for they strive for the only wealth that nobles and exalts. BALDUR VON SCHIRACH he society of the Bibliophiles, founded in 1899, is the oldest and largest bibliophile association in Germany. Her work is linked to personalities from the book industry, literature, art and science, who have been striving since the end of the last century for the renewal of the then decayed book and print art. Thanks to the impulses and influences of society, the German book and printing industry excelled with taste and gained a national imprint. In addition, society sees it as its task to awaken and disseminate the understanding of the precious book of the present and the past.