Carl Rümpler (publisher)

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Carl Rümpler (also: Karl Rümpler or Ernst Karl Rümpler or Ernst Carl Rümpler ; * December 17, 1820 in Hanover ; † in the 19th or 20th century) was a German bookseller , publisher and editor .

Life

Carl Ernst Rümpler was born in Hanover in 1820 as the son of the tailor Georg Friedrich Rümpler and his wife Sophie Antoinette Dorothea Eickhoff. From 1835 he worked in Hanover, at that time the royal seat of the kingdom of the same name , as an apprentice in the Hellwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung . He later worked in Leipzig as an employee of Theodor Oswald Weigel 's publishing and commission bookstore .

Rümpler's extended villa at the - today's - address Scharnhorststraße 1 in the Zoo district , seat of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , was also inhabited by Adolf zum Berge

Shortly after the beginning of the March Revolution - Rümpler had returned to his hometown - he founded the Carl Rümpler bookstore there in 1848 under his own name , but quickly became active as a publisher. In 1858 he sold the book range to Theodor Schulze in order to concentrate primarily on his publishing duties.

In the meantime, Rümpler had founded the daily Hannoverscher Courier together with Adolf zum Berge , who was related to Hoffmann von Fallersleben , in 1854 , the first edition of which was published on September 6, 1854 and which Carl Rümpler later, in collaboration with the Jänecke family , became the newspaper for Northern Germany integrated.

On November 6, 1855 Ernst Karl Rümpler was as affiliiertes member of the Locust - Masonic Lodge to black bear taken in the East Hanover, where he until 1873 from 1868 the tasks of the assigned the Worshipful Master perceived.

According to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover , Rümpler, who was soon to be appointed councilor of commerce , had his seat temporarily in Windmühlenstraße 7 for 1866 , but at around the same time from 1865 he had one of the first buildings in what would later become the Zoo district based on plans by the architect Ernst Bösser build, the originally built as a villa for Senator Rümpler from 1865 to 1867 at the address Seelhorststraße 1 (later: Scharnhorststraße 1 ), later expanded and used as St. Vincent's monastery , now a listed building of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . According to the address book of the Royal Residence City of Hanover from 1868, the "Redakteur des Couriers", Adolf EC zum Berge, lived here at the latest from 1867 at the then address Seelhorst 1 , there especially on the 2nd floor.

In less than three decades, Carl Rümpler had published almost 600 often scientific publications by well-known personalities, for example by Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Oskar Schade , Julius Theodor Grunerts , August Nathanael Böhner , Karl Ruß , or for example Berthold Seemann and Georg Schambach .

July 3, 1866: The Hannoversche Courier , still for the Kingdom of Hanover , a few days after the battle of Langensalza and the surrender to Prussia

During the founding of the German Empire in 1872, Carl Rümpler became director of the newly founded Zeitungsaktiengesellschaft Hannover AG , which, in cooperation with the printing and publishing house of the Jänecke brothers, brought together the three liberal and anti-Prussian Hanover newspapers under the title Hannoverscher Kurier . Rümpler held the position of director until 1881, followed by Christian Jänecke .

Not least as a member of the board of the Kunstverein Hannover , Rümpler maintained correspondence with numerous public figures (see the section on archives ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Vol. 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 574

Archival material

Archives by and about Carl Rümpler can be found, for example

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, it says: "[...] On September 6, 1854, the first number of Carl Rümpler and the court painter Dr. Friedrich founded »Hanoverian Couriers« ”; compare Rudolf Schmidt: Jänecke, Familie , in ders .: German booksellers. German book printer . Volume 3, Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, pp. 508-510; Transcription on the zeno.org site

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Church Hainholz: Church book . Marry. No. 21/1851.
  2. ↑ a b c d Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Compare also Rümpler, ... in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on May 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Marktkirche Hannover: church book . To baptize. No. 5/1821.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). 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. 274.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: March Revolution 1848/49. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 421f.
  7. ^ A b R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , revised reprint of the original edition from 1880, Barsinghausen: Unicum-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308-4 , p. 722, 735f .; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Erika Poettgens: Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the land of Dutch tongue. Correspondence, network of relationships, imagery (= studies on the history and culture of Northwestern Europe , vol. 25), also dissertation 2013 at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Münster; New York, NY: Waxmann, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-3095-2 , p. 63, etc.: mostly online via Google books
  9. ^ A b Rudolf Schmidt: Jänecke, Familie , in ders .: German booksellers. German book printer . Volume 3, Berlin / Eberswalde 1905, pp. 508-510; Transcription on the zeno.org site
  10. ^ Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 26; Digitized via Google books
  11. ↑ Transcription of the address book (excerpt) on the ahnenforschung.net page , last accessed on May 26, 2016
  12. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß : Beginning of the settlement. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1, (Bd.) 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 145f .; as well as zoo , in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 10f.
  13. ↑ a b Reinhard Glaß: Bösser, Ernst in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on May 26, 2016
  14. ↑ Compare the transcription of the address book (p. 432) by the Verein für Computergenealogie
  15. ↑ Compare the documents at Commons
personal data
SURNAME Rümpler, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rümpler, Karl; Rümpler, Ernst Karl; Rümpler, Ernst Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century