Carl Hinstorff

Carl Hinstorff , also Det (h) loff Carl Hinstorff , (born June 2, 1811 in Brüel ; † August 10, 1882 in Wismar ; full name: Dethloff Carl Joachim Hinstorff ) was a Mecklenburg bookseller , publisher and founder of Hinstorff Verlag .

Life

Carl Hinstorff, born as the son of the weaver Heinrich Hinstorff (1779–1842) and his wife Christine, b. Possehl (1776–1848), was the only one of his parents' eight children to reach adulthood. He first attended a simple school, the “Brüeler Kanterschaul” (a private pre-school run by Kantor?) In Brüel, Mecklenburg's smallest town at the time with only about 720 inhabitants. His father later sent him to the Wismar School for his confirmation , even if this involved major financial sacrifices. In 1826 he went to Wismar and began a commercial apprenticeship with relatives, but soon switched to the Schmidt and von Cossel bookstore as an apprentice. A well-founded training in bookselling was hardly possible at the time, because his teachers were a former post office worker and a hunter. But Hinstorff was ambitious and took private lessons. When he was twenty, he wanted to start his own business and chose the town of Parchim for his business . The reason for this was that the city was the seat of the highest court in the country, the Higher Appeal Court . There was also a teachers' seminar nearby, in Ludwigslust . Since Parchim was an "official town", there was a prospect of good business. Because he had not yet reached the age of majority, which at that time was 25 years, he was only able to overcome the official hurdles with a special permit from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I.

In 1835 Hinstorff was able to make himself independent of the commission book trade by opening a printing house in Ludwigslust. Law, education and theology were his preferred subject areas. The school books "Schraepsche Fibel" and "Schlotterbecksches Rechenbuch", which generations of Mecklenburg students used, were printed by Hinstorff. In 1849 Hinstorff moved with his publishing house to Wismar. The reason for this was the relocation of the residence of the Grand Duke of Ludwigslust to Schwerin and the move of the Higher Appeal Court to Rostock. The choice fell on Wismar because of the existing rail connection.

Hinstorff was the only publisher of legal books in Mecklenburg. Among other things, he published the six-volume Raabe collection of laws, the “Handbook for Notaries” or “The decisions of the Higher Appeal Court” in nine volumes. In 1879, Hinstorff published the "Mecklenburg Journal of Justice and Law".

In 1864 the new print shop was opened in Rostock with the edition of the “Rostocker Tageblatt”.

Since 1856 Hinstorff published Fritz Reuter, probably the most important Low German poet in Mecklenburg, and with this cooperation secured a big deal: by 1881, 156 editions of Reuter's works had appeared with almost 500,000 printed copies. Reuter also benefited from Hinstorff's publishing work, because his popularity and distribution were extraordinarily promoted. The collaboration with Reuter made it possible for Hinstorff to present fiction on a larger scale for the first time, as the publisher's program was mainly characterized by non-fiction until then.

Hinstorff began early on to transfer his now flourishing business into other hands. He passed the printing works to his son Carl (1843-1884) and his sons-in-law Louis Eberhardt (1844-1931) and Heinrich Witte (1839-1926), he himself kept the pure publishing business.

Carl Hinstorff died on August 11, 1882 in Wismar.

estate

From the family of Hinstorff's son-in-law Louis Eberhardt in Wismar, a legacy of around 570 items from Hinstorff and his publishing house has been preserved, which is located in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan in Berlin. The holdings contain author correspondence, publishing and editing contracts, apprenticeship and training contracts, land contracts, letters from Reuter illustrators Ludwig Pietsch , Theodor Schloepke and Otto Speckter , letters from Adolf Wilbrandt on the publication of Fritz Reuter's posthumous writings, and letters from Luise from the period 1831 to 1931 Reuters , receipts of fee payments for the Fritz Reuters factories, and supplier and family correspondence.

literature

Wolfgang Lindow : Hinstorff, Detloff Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Carl Hinstorff in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Carl Hinstorff in the state bibliography MV
Consortium of European Research Libraries : Carl Hinstorff Catalog of Works

Individual evidence

^ According to Hans Heinrich Leopoldi, Carl Hinstorff is the form of name documented by church records and used by Hinstorff himself. (Hans Heinrich Leopoldi: Directory of names . In: Fritz Reuter. Collected works and letters. Rostock 1967, Volume 8, p. 816 ff. (Here p. 841))
↑ To distinguish it from his son of the same name, Carl Hinstorff (1843–1884), who was also active in the book trade and publishing sector, the father is often mentioned in literature by the first two baptismal names Det (h) loff Carl Hinstorff .

personal data
SURNAME	Hinstorff, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hinstorff, Dethloff Carl; Hinstorff, Dethloff Carl Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bruel
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 1882
Place of death	Wismar

[1] According to Hans Heinrich Leopoldi, Carl Hinstorff is the form of name documented by church records and used by Hinstorff himself. (Hans Heinrich Leopoldi: Directory of names . In: Fritz Reuter. Collected works and letters. Rostock 1967, Volume 8, p. 816 ff. (Here p. 841))

[2] To distinguish it from his son of the same name, Carl Hinstorff (1843–1884), who was also active in the book trade and publishing sector, the father is often mentioned in literature by the first two baptismal names Det (h) loff Carl Hinstorff .