- He only shot the documentary "Deutsche Siege in drei Erdteilen" as well as the short movies "Und so ein Glück kannst du nur haben" (1930), "Duco" (1938) and "Coca-Cola" (1938). The two last-mentioned works were so-called industry short movies.
- The cinematographer Hermann Böttger finished an education as a photographer and he worked in this field for the next two decades before he joined the film business.
- He suffered of a stroke in 1940.
- He belongs to the German film pioneers - his first movie can be back-dated to 1909 where he was the cameraman for "Der kleine Detektiv" (1909).
- After his stroke he worked in the 40's as a courier for 250 Reichsmark a month.
- He was also involved in some of the first German movies which went into film history as first artistic movies.
- His year of death is not know. His last sign of life was in 1943.
- After the silent movies "Mein Leopold" (1924) and "Die zweite Mutter" (1925) his career as a cinematographer for feature movies came to an end.
- In 1943 the impoverished film pioneer got a present from the NS-Foundation Künstlerdank.
- Because of poor health Hermann Böttger could only do soft jobs and got into financial poverty.
- In 1915 Böttger was called up for military service. After the end of the war he continued his career as a cameraman, but in the age of the unleashed camera and new dissolving techniques, he was rarely used.
- From 1935 to 1938 he was deputy head of the camera department in the film department of the Reichsfilmkammer.
- From 1909 he was a cameraman for the new kind of cinematography. He cooperated particularly with director Max Mack, with whom he was responsible for the first well-known German feature film Der Andere in 1913.
- Hermann Böttger had been married to the tailor Leonie Kühr since 1904.
- Böttger, son of the Dresden shoemaker Gottlieb Hermann Böttger, began training as a photographer at the age of 14 and worked primarily as a portrait photographer in this profession for two decades.
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