edition (1806-1810), which had appeared almost 100 years earlier. This was then followed in 1904-1905 by a complete edition of Friedrich Schiller's works to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the literary figure's death as the "Säkulärausgabe." In addition, the "Bibliothek der Weltliteratur" (Library of World Literature) was further extended and the Volksbibliothek deutscher Klassiker (People's Library of German Classics) was again revived as the "Cotta'sche Volksbibliothek" (from 1889) / "Cotta'sche Handbibliothek" (from 1902) from the old Cotta program. According to the Neue Deutsche Biographie, however, it was„verhängnisvoll, daß Kröner die neuen Strömungen falsch einschätzte.“ He refused to collaborate with Detlev von Liliencron as well as with Heinrich Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, and also attempted at a very late stage to get Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Hesse on his side. Hermann Sudermann provided him with aspirational literature, and he also published Theodor Fontane, Paul Heyse, and Gottfried Keller, who had come to him through the acquisition of Wilhelm Hertz's publishing house in 1901, and Otto Braun published the Cotta'schen Musenalmanach, a cross-section of German literature, from 1891 to 1900. Representative of the Interests of the Publishing Industry and Book Trade In addition to his direct work as a publisher, Adolf Kröner worked very intensively for the interests of the German publishing industry and book trade. In 1877, he became Chairman of the South German Booksellers Association as well as the Stuttgart Publishers Association. A year later, he was appointed as a second secretary and, in 1880, deputy chairman of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler (now Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels). In 1882, he was chosen First Chairman of the Börsenverein and held this position until 1888 and then again from 1889 to 1892. The Neue Deutsche Biographie refers to Kröner's activities as „bedeutendsten Mann auf diesem Posten in der 2. Jahrhunderthälfte“. Kröner became "the leader of the reform movement that sought a balance between the centers of Leipzig and Berlin on the one hand and the rest of the German book trade on the other. " The conflict was related to the fact that the publishers of the two bookselling metropolises conducted an intense mail order book trade with high discounts for buyers, thus creating the situation for the Regional Booksellers that buyers ordered books from them for review, but bought them at discounts from the "long-distance slingers" - the small booksellers had correspondingly massive economic problems and had to finance