Baedeker having 10,000 copies printed by the "Bibliographisches Institut." However, after some 1000 copies had been sold, the Russians said the guidebook contained military secrets in the form of a map showing the site of their "Kommandantura", and confiscated the remaining copies. New English titles during this time were 1927's "Tyrol and the Dolomites", 1931's "The Riviera" (including South Eastern France and Corsica), an edition of "Germany" for the 1936 Olympic Games, and 1939's "Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco". 1948−1979: Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910−1979) was the son of Karl Baedeker III, who was killed in action at the Battle of
Karl Baedeker from Bädeker with the umlaut to Baedeker around 1850. Karl Baedeker was born in Essen, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, on November 3, 1801. After his schooling in Hagen, he left home in 1817 to study humanities in Heidelberg where he also worked for a while at the leading local bookseller J.C.B. Mohr. Military service followed, after which he moved to Berlin where he worked as an assistant at Georg Andreas Reimer, one of the leading booksellers in the city, from 1823 to 1825. He then returned home to Essen and worked with his father until 1827 when he