CW Niemeyer book publishers

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The printing and publishing house CW Niemeyer was founded in 1797 and is based in Hameln on the Weser.

The beginnings

From 1681 Johann Heitmüller had printed in Hameln for a while; after stations in Helmstädt (1656–1677) and Bevern (1678–1680). In 1719 the printer Johann Hartwig Hillermann came to Hameln. Johann Georg Christoph Herrnkind's printing works, who were already printing in Höxter, Holzminden and Pyrmont, did not exist for long either. The attempt of Einbeck's Christian Leberecht wittig († July 4, 1820), who had established himself in Hanover in 1799, to move to Hameln two years later, failed. Up until then, printed matter had mainly been produced in Hanover and the university town of Rinteln.

The ancestors of Carl Wilhelm Hahn († 1818) were clergymen and book printers in Römhild . Hahn was the tenant of the Culemann printing house in Königslutter and, as a result of the Napoleonic turmoil, established himself in Hameln in 1806, where he acquired the house at Osterstrasse 19. After the fortress there had been razed, its two presses were soon no longer being used to capacity.

Under his widow, Joh. Doroth. Henr. Hahn, b. Gerloff († 1824), who bought the print shop, revived the business. She had four daughters and a young son. After her son-in-law Georg Friedrich Buttenbaum (1795–1834), who came from Polle, fell ill, her eldest daughter, Louise Friedrike Buttenbaum (1793–1849) continued the printing business after her brother, who was established in Emden, paid off. Her oldest daughter Theodore learned typesetting when she was eight and proofreading when she was ten.

For Pastor Schläger they printed the Hamel advertisements from 1823, two years later also the non-profit papers and for Sertürner the annals for the universal system of elements. Publishing articles were added for the Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung in Hanover. If the press is not busy, printed matter such as waybills, export certificates, payment orders, infantry instructions, theater programs, labels, holiday passes, confirmation slips, budget plans for the magistrate, a product budget for the Reher brass works, tape poems and much more are printed.

In 1843 Theodore (born September 14, 1822) married the businessman Carl Wilhelm Niemeyer (1820–1874) from the Hülptingsen peasant family, after whom the print shop is named from now on. In the year of the revolution he received the approval to publish the Deister and Weser newspaper, which appeared from July 4, 1848, daily from 1884.

Modern times

From the beginning, books were printed and published in addition to local newspapers and general education magazines. Beginning in 1956 with an aesthetic production, the publishing house sees its task today in particular in the documentation of the landscape, culture and history of the Weser region.

Since 1963, the publishing house has also owned the renowned Hanoverian publishing house Adolf Sponholtz , which was founded in 1894 and whose production is mainly based on the publication of Hermann Löns titles and Hanover illustrated books. The program focuses on regional literature, art picture books and, in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation, the publication of numerous documentations on the topic of monument preservation in Lower Saxony.

In 2010 the series WeserberglandKRIMI began to be published. In the meantime a large readership has been enthusiastic about this innovation. The crime thrillers are either based in a certain region of Germany or let their investigators operate in the entire German-speaking area. Meanwhile, around 115 titles are available to an interested audience both at the Frankfurt Frankfurt as at the Leipzig Book Fair will be presented.

The publishing house has been an independent GmbH since 1997 and operates as CW Niemeyer Buchverlage GmbH . The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association .

literature

  • A chronicle of the company CW Niemeyer, Hameln. Tradition and new spirit. 1806-1956 . Niemeyer, Hameln 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz29428.html
  2. ↑ https://de.billiongraves.com/grave/Georg-Friedrich-Buttenbaum/14789870
  3. ↑ Carl Wilhelm's son, Louis Hahn († 1904), had met with his wife Louise, b. Schönnagel, established in Emden as the owner of a book printer, editor and publisher of the "Ostfriesische Zeitung", where her son Louis Albert Theodor Karl Hahn (1866–1952) was born.
  4. ^ Karl Ludwig Grotefend : History of the book printing works in the Hanoverian and Braunschweigische Landen ; 1840; P. 35
  5. ↑ Th. Thimm: The cradle of the Dewezet (October 22, 2009 )