Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig

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The bookseller exchange around 1840 - the seat of the Börsenverein from 1836 to 1888
The bookseller's house around 1900 - seat of the stock exchange association from 1888 until its destruction in 1943

The Booksellers Association of the German Booksellers in Leipzig was from 1825 to 1990, the first and until 1948 only national association of German booksellers and publishers . He was based in Leipzig .

history

The association was founded on April 30, 1825 in Leipzig. The founding members were six booksellers and publishers from Leipzig and 95 foreign booksellers. In the following months, other booksellers joined, so that the Börsenverein already had 235 members at the end of 1825. The foundation and the name go back to the bookseller exchange, which has been organizing the accounting of the Leipzig Book Fair between booksellers and publishers from all over Germany with their various currencies since 1792 . The first concern of the association was to simplify the accounting system at the book fairs. The Börsenverein quickly became a representative of the entire profession. Later he campaigned for the abolition of censorship, for the regulation of copyright law and for the introduction of fixed retail prices. Company membership was exchanged for personal membership in 1838.

In connection with the establishment of the Börsenverein and shortly thereafter, a Leipzig publisher founded the Bibliography of Germany, or the complete weekly directory of new books, music and art that appeared in Germany , which first appeared on January 7, 1826 in the Industrie-Comptoir in Leipzig and In 1827 a monthly supplement Literarischer Anzeiger was added to the bibliography of Germany (in 1836 the bibliography of Germany was then replaced by a general bibliography for Germany from Brockhaus-Verlag).

The seat of the Börsenverein was the bookseller exchange on Ritterstraße from 1836 to 1888 and the German bookseller's house on Hospitalstraße (today Prager Straße) from 1888 until its destruction in 1943 . The Börsenverein has published the Börsenblatt for the German book trade since January 3, 1834 . The Börsenblatt has been the organ of the Börsenverein since 1835.

With the enforcement of Kröner'schen reform, named after the chairman of the Börsenverein Adolf Kröner , in 1887, it came to setting a single book price, known as book prices . As a result, the Börsenverein drew up binding regulations for the book trade, the booksellers 'sales regulations and the booksellers' traffic regulations , which regulated business transactions between publishers and bookstores and between bookstores and the public. The Börsenverein was heavily involved in the disputes about fixed book prices at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, known as the book dispute .

The Börsenverein initiated the establishment of the German Library in Leipzig in 1912 . The extensive library of the Börsenverein was moved to the Deutsche Bücherei. In 1928 the Börsenverein took over the bookselling school in Leipzig, which was founded in 1852.

Excerpt from the German book directory , "edited by the bibliographical department of the Boersenverein der Deutschen Buchhaendler zu Leipzig", 21st volume, 1943

In 1934 Wilhelm Baur began to bring the Börsenverein into line.

After the Second World War , the Börsenverein in Leipzig resumed its activities in 1946 and gradually developed into an instrument of the SED's cultural policy. In the western zones of occupation, the booksellers formed regional associations. In 1948 the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers Associations was founded there. In the course of a reorganization in 1955, this was renamed the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels based in Frankfurt am Main. The Börsenverein in Leipzig continued the tradition in the GDR under the same name, but under different circumstances and without any claim to represent the entire German book industry. From 1968 to 1989 the Börsenverein honored people for their services to the book with the Wilhelm Bracke Medal .

After reunification , the 165-year-old “Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig” was affiliated with the then 35-year-old Frankfurt “Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels” on January 1, 1991. Only one office remained at the place of origin in Leipzig.

The archives of the Börsenverein before 1945 and the Börsenverein in the GDR before 1990 are in the Saxon State Archives , State Archives Leipzig , holdings 21765 Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig (I) and 21766 Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig (II). The finding aids are available for online research .

Chair

The first heads of the Börsenverein were (with term of office):

literature

  • Friedrich Johannes Frommann : History of the stock exchange association of German booksellers. Leipzig 1875. ( Google Books )
  • Stephan Füssel u. a. (Ed.): The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels 1825-2000. A historical outline . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel: Dictionary of the book . 6th edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Gerd Schulz: Book trade Ploetz. Outline of the history of the German-speaking book trade from Gutenberg to the present . 4th edition. Ploetz, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of those 235 booksellers who ... are to be regarded as authorized to trade on the stock exchange , from December 31, 1825. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum , Leipzig.
  2. ^ Rolf Engelsing: A bibliographical plan from the year 1826. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurter edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), p. 2869 f.
  3. ^ Peter Christian Ludz , Johannes Kuppe : GDR manual . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations. 1st edition. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3-8046-8515-4 , p. 232 .
  4. ↑ Booksellers Association of the German Buchhbändler in Leipzig lexicon, Section first of the Börsenverein the German booksellers