Anton Zumstein
Anton Zumstein , also Zumstein-Brack (born June 18, 1875 in Grünenbach , Allgäu ; † January 20, 1973 ibid), was a German cartographer and publisher of hiking maps , city maps and travel guides . He came from the Zumstein family .
Life
Private life
Anton Zumstein was born as the first of six children to the merchant Franz Anton (1844–1910) and Antonia Zumstein (1843–1887, née Bildstein). After secondary school, he did an apprenticeship as a textile merchant, as was the family tradition. Due to extensive travel and hikes at a young age, he learned to know and appreciate the value of maps and travel guides. Collecting maps became his hobby, which inspired him to become active in this field himself. He found that what was shown on maps often did not correspond to reality. He married Emma Brack on April 17, 1911, with whom he had sons Max and Otto.
Profession & Publisher
Anton Zumstein and his brother Karl (* 1876) took over the textile goods business from their father in Grünenbach. In 1907 Anton left this. At the beginning of June 1909 he founded a wholesaler for maps and travel guides in Grünenbach, as well as a publishing house for hiking maps called Allgäu-Verlag . At the beginning, he often encountered incomprehension from potential customers because they were not even able to read cards. The first work by his publisher was a hiking map of the Allgäu with marked hiking trails, restaurants and huts, in which the neighboring Austrian area was also drawn. This was also the first map of this area at a scale of 1: 100,000. Previously only maps with a scale of 1: 1,000,000 had been offered. This was followed by the 1: 5000 scale map, which quickly reached 100,000 copies. The rapid expansion of business permitted its publisher, sales representatives set. He himself had the opportunity to explore and map other hiking trails. He made maps of the Alpine region up to the Black Forest .
“So I knew what a tourist needs - not a fantasy, but clear information. To be able to do that, you have to be a tourist yourself. "
In 1939 the publishing house was relocated to Munich and from then on bore the name Zumstein Landkartenhaus . The Second World War prevented further expansion of the publishing house. However, the success of the publishing house rose again with the economic miracle and the printed so-called Zumstein catalog , which contained maps, travel guides and city maps. In 1940 his sons joined the publishing house. Anton Zumstein retired from the business in 1955. Today the publisher is called Geo Center - Internationales Landkartenhaus GmbH Stuttgart / Munich .
Anton Zumstein designed and designed 45 maps, including that of the Lindau district , whose complicated location between Baden-Württemberg and Austria posed problems for many cartographers.
literature
- Herbert Mader: Grünenbacher Chronicle from the beginning to the present . 2000, p. 327.
- Brigitte Mauderer: He created the modern Allgäu map - Anton Zumstein is 95 . Allgäuer Heimatkalender 1970, pp. 139–141.
- Ludwig Scheller: Contributions to the local history of the community Grünenbach On the history of the Zumstein house (after Dr. Karl Martin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Scheller: On the history of the Zumstein house (after Dr. Karl Martin) . In: Contributions to the local history of the community Grünenbach . 1959.
- ↑ companies - GeoCenter. Retrieved on March 20, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zumstein, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zumstein-Brack, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartographer and publisher of hiking maps, city maps and travel guides |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünenbach , Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th January 1973 |
| Place of death | Grünenbach , Allgäu |