Carl Ermacora printing house

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The Carl Ermacora book printing company in Hanover was a printing company founded at the beginning of the 20th century with an affiliated publishing house .

history

Around 1900: View from the Holzmarkt through Kramerstraße towards the Marktkirche in the old town of Hanover;
color lithographed postcard number 85 by Johannes Miesler

The entrepreneur Carl Ermacora founded his small printing office on June 20, 1902 initially in a single room in the building Holzmarkt 1 , but was just a few months into larger premises in the August street Ernst-11 move, where he then crucibles and high-speed press work could. In order to set up larger machines, Ermacora moved his company to Schmiedestrasse 4 in 1907 , where he co-founded the trade magazine Der Schneidermeister and received the printing order for his printing company from the start. In 1910, Ermacora was able to move into its own building for the first time at Lange Laube 15. He also added his own bookbinding shop to the business premises at that time.

During the First World War , Carl Ermacora served as a soldier for four years , while his wife continued the business. At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the company moved to its own larger premises for the last time on the property at Am Taubenfelde 1 , which was connected to the former property at Josephstraße 24 (today Otto-Brenner-Straße), which was also part of the company. Around 1927 the building complex consisted of a low-rise building with a brick facade and a gable on the street Am Taubenfelde crowned with the letters CEH . The inner courtyard was built on four sides with partly four-story factory buildings.

In the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 also the "Ermacora-Verlag" was established and at the same time the magazine The tailor now product of its own publishing house.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the affiliated companies included 130 people in the print shop and 85 employees in the publishing house. The air raids on Hanover finally destroyed the life's work of the company founder, who had since passed away.

In 1945 the surviving employees, friends and former suppliers cleared the "[...] desolate heap of rubble, iron parts, tangled wire and cracked concrete ceilings" from the company property, on which a new building was built in the early years of the economic boom . In 1954 at the latest, the Carl Ermacora book printing company was able to resume printing with “... the most modern machines” at the time.

literature

  • 50 years of Buchdruckerei Carl Ermacora Hanover 1902 - 1952 , anniversary font, Hanover: Ermacora, 1952

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Buchdruckerei Carl Ermacora, Hanover, Am Taubenfelde 1A , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the Picture material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 139
  2. ↑ a b c d e 1902 - 1952. 50 years of book printing Carl Ermacora , in: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954 , with collaboration in the text and illustrative design by Heinz Lauenroth , Ewald Brix and Herbert Mundhenke , publisher: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag Kommandit-Gesellschaft, Hanover (Seelhorststrasse 46), September 1954, p. 75


Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.3 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 41.6"  E