Carl Ernst Poeschel

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Carl Ernst Poeschel (* September 2, 1874 as Carl Ernst Pöschel in Leipzig , † May 19, 1944 in Scheidegg ) was a German printer , typographer and publisher .

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Carl Ernst Poeschel was the son of Heinrich Ernst Pöschel (1841–1927), a businessman and co-owner of the printing company Offizin Pöschel & Trepte in Leipzig. From 1885 to 1892 he attended the royal high school in his hometown. Since the son was to be his successor in the company, the father did not consent to his wish to study architecture. Carl Ernst Poeschel completed a four-year apprenticeship as a book printer, after which he was allowed to study art history for a few semesters as a kind of reward. In 1898 he traveled to the USA for two years to get to know the printing and publishing industry there. Since this stay abroad he used the spelling "Poeschel" instead of "Pöschel".

In 1901 Poeschel became an authorized signatory in his father's company, and in 1906 also co-owner, managing director and artistic director. The print shop's clients were primarily the publishers Eugen Diederichs , Ernst Rowohlt , Julius Zeitler , S. Fischer , Georg Müller and Hans von Weber, as well as Insel-Verlag , whose director and partner Poeschel was together with Anton Kippenberg in 1905/06. In 1902 he had already taken over the Strecker & Schröder publishing house .

On a trip to England in 1904, he met some of the most important representatives of English book art, Edward Johnston , Douglas Cockerell , Eric Gill and Emery Walker .

Janus press

In 1907, Carl Ernst Poeschel and his friend, the book artist and typographer Walter Tiemann , founded the Janus-Presse, one of the most pioneering German private presses of the time. In 1914 he volunteered for the military. In the economic recession after the First World War , he sold the publishing house to his student and friend Alfred Druckermüller so that he could devote himself entirely to printing. The company flourished increasingly internationally.

On the night of December 3rd to 4th, 1943, the booksellers' quarter of Leipzig and Poeschel's factory were almost completely destroyed. While the family fled to Scheidegg in the Allgäu, Poeschel stayed in Leipzig to save the parts of his collection that had not been destroyed. The company was continued in Regensburg for a short time. In 1944 another bombing raid put an end to any further work. His business partner Herbert Schulz-Schomburgk died that year. All of this led to Poeschel falling ill and dying on May 19, 1944 at his family's home (Scheidegg).

Honors

  • Honorary member of the association "German Book Artists" of the Typographic Society in Leipzig
  • 1940 Awarded the Gutenberg Ring by the City of Leipzig
  • 1940 Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig

Works

  • Contemporary book printing . Poeschel, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7910-0472-7 (reprint of the edition: Poeschel & Trepte, Leipzig 1904, with an afterword by Hans Peter Willberg)
  • German letterpress. Yesterday Today Tomorrow. Lecture . Publishing house of the Gutenberg Society, Mainz 1927 (annual report of the Gutenberg Society; 25, supplement).
  • Franz Ludwig Habbel and Carl Ernst Poeschel: Antiqua as German normal font. Your application in book typesetting . Wiking-Verlag, Berlin 1942.
  • Traditions of Leipzig book art: Carl Ernst Poeschel, Walter Tiemann, Hugo Steiner-Prag, Ignatz Wiemeler, Horst Erich Wolter , edited and introduced by Albert Kapr. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-343-00475-8 .

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  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05, Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
personal data
SURNAME Poeschel, Carl Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pöschel, Carl Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer , typographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1944
Place of death Scheidegg