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| CA Starke Verlag Imprint of the historical book table - Ralf Jordan | |
|---|---|
| legal form | one-man business |
| founding | October 20, 1847 |
| Seat | Bad Salzdetfurth , Germany |
| management | Ralf Jordan |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | www.starkeverlag.de / www.geschichtlicher buechertisch.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The CA Starke Verlag in Bad Salzdetfurth is a German specialist publisher of books, magazines and other publications on genealogy and heraldry .
history
1847-1945
The publishing house was founded on October 20, 1847 by Christian August Starke (1823–1882) in Görlitz . In 1876 the company was expanded to include a heraldic publisher. In the years 1875-1883 published by the Count appeared Rudolf von Stillfried-Rattonitz and Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt published splendid work Des Conrad Green Mountain , Knight and Burgers to Constenz armorial, with over 300 boards in glorious color print. For this achievement, the founder's son, Georg Starke (1852-1919), who had been the publisher's authorized signatory since 1879, was awarded the title of royal purveyor to the court in 1880 . After the founder's death in 1882, the son took over the management of the publishing house. From 1889 the genealogist Bernhard Koerner published the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families in Starke Verlag and provided the volumes with forewords that were increasingly volkish and anti - Semitic .
On January 27, 1919, the book printing company owner Hans Kretschmer (1887–1976) acquired the company, expanded it in 1923 to include the A. Müller commercial printing company and combined all three companies into the now well-known publishing house for heraldry and genealogy. As editor , Kretschmer founded the journal Archive for Family Research and, from 1929 to 1944, the Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods . When production almost came to a standstill in 1944 due to a lack of paper, the publisher's range comprised almost 1,000 titles.
After the occupation of the city of Görlitz by the Soviet troops and the end of the Second World War (1945), the inventory of around 400,000 volumes was destroyed and Kretschmer was finally expropriated without compensation in 1946.
Since 1946
Kretschmer went with his family to the West and began to rebuild the publishing house in 1950 in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) in a barracks building of the former Navy . Eight years later (1958) the company relocated to Limburg (Lahn), where it is still based today.
After Kretschmer's death (1976), his widow Anneliese Kretschmer (1903–1998) took over the management of the publishing house and in 1994 handed the company over to her son Hans Jürgen Kretschmer (* 1924). But just two years later (1996) the publishing house was sold to the manager Rasched Salem (* 1963). In 2008, Hans Jürgen Kretschmer bought the company back.
According to the publisher, "the publisher's program is mainly dedicated to genealogy as a science for researching family relationships."
Christina Salem, the daughter of the former owner of Starke Verlag, Hans-Jürgen Kretschmer, announced that CA Starke Verlag had filed for bankruptcy in April 2018. The proceedings were opened on July 2nd. CA Starke Verlag ceased its ongoing business operations on September 1, 2018. The online bookseller Geschichtlicher Büchertisch by Ralf Jordan took over large parts of the genealogical specialist publisher CA Starke on September 1, 2018, after having bought large parts of the inventory and the rights. As a result of the takeover, the important series of the Starke Verlag - the "German Gender Book" and "Grundriß der Genealogie" - and other titles and journals are still available for researchers and interested parties.
This means that more than 60 percent of the Starke titles will in future be available from the Jordans online bookstore. The publishing house will be continued as an imprint of the historical book table .
Publishing program
The most important editions of Starke Verlag today include the German Gender Book series as a genealogical handbook of bourgeois families , German leadership classes in modern times , the outline of the genealogy and ancestors and grandchildren , as well as the quarterly journal Archive for Family Research (see above), known from early publishing times , today under the title Archive for Family History Research . By 2015, publications from the German Aristocratic Archives were also published . These included the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility (continued by the Gothaischen Genealogical Handbook ) and the series From the German Aristocratic Archive . In addition to numerous individual publications, the publisher also produces a wide range of pedigree and genealogical forms .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms . Volume H: Biographical lexicon of heraldists as well as sphragisticians, vexillologists and insignologists . Ed. vom Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences . Edited by Jürgen Arndt with the assistance of Horst Hilgenberg and Marga Wehner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992, p. 520 f.
- ↑ boersenblatt.net on September 26, 2018: The historical book table takes over CA Starke