Baedeker of pre-1872 guides continued to be printed where all Baedeker guides had been produced before—the G.D. Baedeker printing works in Essen. Fritz ventured into territory none of his predecessors had covered before, inside and outside Europe e.g. Russia, Sweden, Norway, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Greece, the Mediterranean, USA, Canada, India and South East Asia. Plans to publish guides on China and Japan had to be abandoned when war broke out in 1914. At home, the list of guides on German regions and cities continued to grow. His was the golden age of Baedeker travel guides. Fritz also had the good fortune
Karl Brugger is known. Karl Brugger Karl Brugger (1941, Munich – January 3, 1984, Rio de Janeiro) was a German foreign correspondent for the ARD network and author, best known for his book "The Chronicle of Akakor" about the alleged lost city of Akakor. He was born in Munich and studied journalism and contemporary history there and in Paris. Brugger worked as a freelance journalist before being, from 1974, correspondent for the ARD. Brugger was shot down in Rio de Janeiro in 1984 while walking with his friend Ulrich Encke at the famous Ipanema beach. Neither his killer, nor the motive for