Ernst Schulz-Besser

Ernst Schulz-Besser (1873–1933) was a German writer, antiquarian bookseller, and publisher. Reliable catalog and biographical records identify him with those dates, and surviving book records show that he wrote Die Karikatur im Weltkriege, a work on caricature and the First World War that was published with numerous illustrations.

Archival and trade records also connect him with a Leipzig book and art antiquarian business, suggesting that his literary work grew out of close contact with books, prints, and visual culture. That combination helps explain why his writing is especially interesting today: it sits at the meeting point of history, collecting, and the graphic arts.

Detailed personal information appears to be limited in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember him as a figure from Germany's interwar book world whose surviving reputation rests chiefly on his work about political caricature and on his role in the antiquarian book trade.