Scherrer (Hanover)

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The Scherrer - printing, data and project management GmbH in Hannover was a well-founded in the 19th century printing and media - service . The last location of the company, which has been run as a family business for generations and which was closed as a production facility in 2003, was Striehlstraße 9 in the Mitte district . The company is now called scherrer. - Agency for digital and print media at the same location continued by the twin brothers Dirk and Frank Scherrer.

history

The early years

The family's black art dates back to the early 19th century: In 1820, the 24-year-old Felix Scherrer (born December 31, 1802 in Hamberg near Engelhaming, Austria; † January 18, 1864 Hanover) came to Hanover as a printer - journeyman during his traveling years and found his way of life in the company "Gebrüder Jänecke". Scherrer married a Hanoverian who gave birth to two children: Her daughter Helene married the Kommerzienrat Heinrich Meinecke (* 1832, † 1892), the partner in the Hanover business books factory JC König & Ebhardt . Son Ferdinand also learned the profession of book printer, was then employed by the Jänecke brothers as a master craftsman and sent to the printing ink factory, which he was friends with, Jänecke & Schneemann , where Ferdinand Scherrer was promoted to operations manager and technical director.

At the end of the 1880s, Ferdinand Scherrer traveled to the USA for two years , where he set up a branch factory for Jänecke & Schneemann in New York City .

Ferdinand Scherrer had a daughter and two sons; the older one, Franz Scherrer , he sent to an apprenticeship at a Hanover paper wholesaler . Franz Scherrer then became an employee of the Hanoverian business books factory JC König & Ebhardt , was sent by the latter to their Hamburg general agency Schacht & Westerich , then also to the London branch of König & Ebhardt in Great Britain . His son Ernst Scherrer (born February 6, 1876 in Hanover; † October 5, 1936 there) made his Abitur at Realgymnasium I in Hanover in 1896, was appointed senior government and building officer and in February 1906 appointed government master builder.

A. Harbers & Brager

Postcard of the Mercur private city letter expedition ;
Printed in 1896 by A. Harbers & Brager
Letterhead from the Wunstorfer Margarine Werke ; Produced
by A. Harbers & Brager in 1897
Multi-color lithograph of a postcard with the river water art and the click mill as well as the artist signature of George Müller , around 1898

Meanwhile, in 1890, two printers had founded a smaller lithographic printing company called Harbers & Co. on Bahnhofstrasse in Hanover . In the same year, one of the two company founders left the company; In his place, the drawing teacher Brager was accepted into the company, and the company was renamed A. Harbers & Brager . Brager skill consisted for the rapidly growing clientele lithographed Letterhead to design . Her customers included the Hanoverian postal company Mercur Privat-Stadtbrief-Expedition and the Wunstorfer Margarine-Werke JG Renner .

The supraregional company also produced multicolored postcards , such as a "Gruss vom Brocken " card with the old Brocken Hotel and the Steinerne Renne .

A. Brager & Scherrer

Lithographed letterhead Franz Heuser & Co .;
with the reference A. Brager & Scherrer ; around 1900

When Franz Scherrer wanted to make a stopover in Hanover in 1898 during a trip from the London factory of JC König & Ebhardt to Vienna , he got to know the print shop on Bahnhofstrasse and - stayed in Hanover: while A. Harbers left the still small company , Scherrer joined the printing company, which from then on traded as A. Brager & Scherrer . After "four years later, in 1902, Brager also withdrew from the business", the company was renamed the Franz Scherrer printing company . Franz Scherrer received the capital for the acquisition of the shares in Brager from his brother-in-law, Johann Friedrich Elbrecht. Johann Elbrecht was CEO of the German-American Petroleum Society (DAPG) in Bremen. The DAPG was founded on February 25, 1890 in Bremen as a joint venture by German merchants and John D. Rockefeller from Standard Oil in order to operate Standard Oil's petroleum business in Germany.

Franz Scherrer printing company

Letterhead of the later Brunnen-Haase company on Goethestrasse
Zudruck now Franz Scherrer, Hanover ; after 1902
The Wunstorfer Margarinewerke Union
printed by Franz Scherrer, Hanover ; dated 1908

After the name was changed to Druckerei Franz Scherrer in 1902, the company moved from Bahnhofstrasse to Nikolaistrasse 35 . In the middle of the First World War , the move to the newly acquired property at Striehlstrasse 9 took place , where Franz Scherrer was one of the first to replace the previously practiced lithography "in the early 1920s" with " offset printing " in addition to the addition of a cardboard box factory and the establishment of a book printing company. . Now, as also were artists such examples Änne Koken or Kurt Schwitters their posters , but especially the advertising - industry print at Scherrer.

In 1929 Franz participated together with Dr. Fritz Keese, a cousin of his wife and a member of the supervisory board of Westfalenbank AG , Hanover, helped found the branches of RoTo- and Debego - Werke Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin and Hamburg. He was also a member of the supervisory board of RoTo Werke. The RoTo Werke were Europe's largest manufacturer of rotary duplicating machines.

After a trip through the USA , Kurt , Franz Scherrer's eldest son, “returned to his father's company” in 1929. After his father's death in 1935, Kurt Scherrer became the sole owner of the print shop. During his time, photolithography was introduced and the company expanded, which " had grown to 140 employees in 1939" by the beginning of the Second World War . The factories were damaged several times by the air raids on Hanover and finally - two weeks before the Allied invasion of Hanover - they were completely destroyed by aerial bombs and fire, with the exception of a few perimeter walls. Due to the extensive destruction of infrastructures and machines - 48% of Hanover was destroyed - Kurt Scherrer and his employees first had to rebuild the building "literally with their [bare] hands".

After Kurt Scherrer's son Wolfgang joined the company as an authorized signatory in 1960 after decades of training in other print shops , he became the sole responsible managing director from 1977 when his father retired from the company for reasons of age .

Scherrer - print, data and project management

Under Wolfgang Scherrer (from 1977) the company initially took into account the “profound change in this branch of industry” as Scherrerdruck. With the entry of the next generation of the family (Dirk and Frank Scherrer) from 1997 onwards, they highlighted the desired full range of print and electronic products: "Scherrer - Print, New Media" first established itself on the market as a media service provider, and later "Scherrer - Print- , Data and project management ”. However, after extensive investments and a slump in demand, the traditional family business came to an end for the time being in 2003 (insolvency). Subsequently and until the end of 2004 it continued in a joint company with Schlüterschen under the name "Projekt- und Vertriebsgesellschaft schlütersche + scherrer", from the beginning of 2005 and until today as an agency for design and production under the name "scherrer"

Fonts (selection)

  • o. V .: Dirk and Frank Scherrer, managing directors, Scherrer Druck Neue Medien GmbH. In: Scherrer Magazin , Edition 4, Hanover: [undated], pp. 26–29

literature

  • Kurt Scherrer: To my dear parents on June 21st and August 24th, 1935 , copy of the single copy from 1935, life report of Kurt Scherrer, family tree of Kurt Scherrer, created on the occasion of the family festival on December 12th – 13th. June 2010 at the mill in Sorsum. Berlin 2010: epubli GmbH; online through google books
  • Franz Scherrer printing company, Hanover. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover, 1954 , Hanover 1954: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, p. 93
  • Franz B. Döpper: Five generations of printers in Hanover / Franz Scherrer Hanover / Scherrerdruck GmbH Hanover. In: Hanover and its old companies , ed. from the Association of German Economic Historians eV, Hamburg; 1st edition, Hamburg 1984: PRO HISTORICA Gesellschaft für Deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte mbH, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , p. 300 f.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : SCHERRER, Franz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 318; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Scherrer - printing, data and project management GmbH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 540.

Web links

Commons : Franz Scherrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Scherrer - pressure ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Druckerei Franz Scherrer, Hanover (see literature)
  3. ↑ Compare one of the cards offered above on the right above this article
  4. ↑ a b c Franz B. Döpper: Five generations of printers in Hanover ... (see literature)
  5. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: SCHERRER, Franz (see literature)
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, XXVI. Volume, No. 13, February 10, 1906, Berlin
  7. ↑ a b Compare the company imprints on the documents printed by A. Bragers & Co at Commons
  8. ↑ Compare, for example, this ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Benbengros' offer on the delcampe.de auction platform , last accessed on January 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / delcampe.de
  9. ↑ Note: The book of the old companies from 1954 mentions Brager & Scherrer as the company name, however the name A. Brager & Scherrer can be found on original documents that have appeared so far ; compare the documentation at Commons .
  10. ^ "Farben-Zeitung", Volume 31, Part 2, Page 2145, 1926
  11. ^ "Deutscher Wirtschaftsführer", George Wenzel, page 96, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1929
  12. ↑ Berliner Börsenzeitung / 23 Nov 1929 / Page 11; Hamburger Nachrichten / 16 Oct 1929 / Page 10
  13. ↑ Roto-Werke in the Helmstedt Wiki, accessed February 28, 2019
  14. ↑ Kurt Scherrer: To my dear parents ... (see literature)
  15. ↑ Note: The book of the old companies calls the company "completely destroyed", while there and later also in 1984 various photos are printed that show at least a partial preservation of the building structure.
  16. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  17. ↑ Compare also Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Balance of the war. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 190, sample photo p. 191; online through google books
  18. ↑ www.scherrer.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 56.7 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.4"  E