Book printing and publishing house EAH Meister

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Commemorative event of the German trade union federation in front of the Tiedthof on April 1, 2014 "for the 81st anniversary of the occupation of the Hanoverian trade union building" - and the smashing of the printing and publishing house EAH Meister & Co. and its media

The book printing and publishing house EAH Meister & Co. in Hanover was a book printing company with an affiliated publishing house owned by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) at the beginning of the 20th century . The company, which produced the newspaper Volkswille , was temporarily owned by the SPD politicians August Brey , Robert Leinert and Christian Schrader . The location of the media company, which was important for the history of the workers' movement and social democracy as well as for understanding the seizure of power and forcible conformity by the National Socialists , was Nikolaistrasse 7 at the time . In the former trade union building of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB), the building complex later called Tiedthof at the changed address Goseriede 4 , the printing and publishing house were located on the ground and first floors of the central building, and in the basement there were also large paper stores and bathing facilities .

history

View of one of the transverse buildings in the inner courtyards of the later so-called Tiedthof
Setup for the re-erection of the memorial stone in front of the former trade union building in August 2014, from left: Tom Seibert (regional secretary), Reiner Eifler (regional manager) and Steffen Holz (regional secretary)

The company was built in the building complex built by the architect Rudolf Schröder from 1909 to 1910 . The “Great Setzersaal” was 13 meters wide and 20 meters long. Through the four-meter-high walls, daylight illuminated the workplace from two sides through ten large lattice windows. In the otherwise white-tiled room more than 100 were set shelves with more than 1000 typeholders the production of the newspaper will of the people and their five side dishes, as well as writings The proletarians. Organ of the Association of Factory Workers in Germany and other newspapers and magazines .

After an NSDAP local group in Hanover had already formed in the 1920s and its board member Felix Kopprasch at the beginning of 1928 with his leaflet “Saison-Ausverkauf ” incited against the alleged Jewish “[…] department store polyps and consumer association parasites ” , the Hannoversche , for example, resisted Consumers' association of defamation around 1930 with an extensive counter- representation - on an approximately DIN A3 poster , printed by EAH Meister & Co.

But around three years later and only a few weeks after the seizure of power, the entire building complex was forcibly occupied by the National Socialists on April 1, 1933 as the first trade union building in Germany - the end of the book printing and publishing house EAH Meister & Co.

Works (selection)

Movies

  • Your newspaper , short documentary film , Hanover: Buchdruckerei u. Publishing house EAH Meister & Co., Verlag des Volkswillen, 1930

Fonts (selection)

  • Heinrich Schneider: Professional organizations or industrial associations? , published by the Association of Factory Workers in Germany, Hanover: Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt EAH Meister & Ko., 1912
  • Festschrift commemorating the founding and the 40-year struggle of the Association of Factory Workers of Germany , 1930

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mertsching : The organized Hanoverian workers get a home in which: The occupation of the union building in Hanover. April 1, 1933 , with numerous prints of historical documents and photographs from the collection of the Project Workers' Movement in Hanover , by the photographer Walter Ballhause and the DGB District NBS archive , published by the DGB region Lower Saxony-Mitte, with a greeting from Sebastian Wertmüller and an introduction by Michael Buckmiller, revised reprint of the 1983 edition, Hannover: Offizin-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-63-2 , pp. 21-25; here especially p. 23; downloadable as a PDF document
  2. ↑ Anke Dietzler: Hannover 1933. A city becomes National Socialist , contributions to the special exhibition of the same name in 1982 in the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, ed. from the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover: Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, 1981, p. 158; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : ADGB trade union building. 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. 221.
  4. ↑ Hans-Michael Krüger (Responsible), NN (Text): Gebrüder Eduard and Albert Wolff ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website Lebensraum-linden.de in the version from March 6, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensraum-linden.de
  5. ^ NSDAP leaflets “Season Sale” and resolution , printing and publishing house Felix Kopprasch, Hanover, January 1928, template: Lower Saxony State Archive (Hanover location) , signature Hann. 171 Hanover No. 28 , digitized on the website Lebensraum-linden.de in the version of March 6, 2016
  6. ↑ Fight against the consumer associations! , Print in the archive of social democracy , scaled-down digitized version and copy about HOPE - Heritage of the People's Europe on europeana .eu
  7. ↑ Compare the information on the page filmportal.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 38.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 59.8"  E