Carl Schünemann

Carl Heinrich Schünemann (* 1780 ; † 1835 in Bremen ) was a Bremen merchant and publisher .

biography

Carl Schünemann came to Bremen from Lübeck around 1803 . The young merchant acquired the citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Bremen. He bought the house at Second Battle Gate No. 7 . In 1809 he took over the Joachim Deetjen playing card factory and moved it from Vegesack to Bremen. In 1810 - still under Napoleonic rule - he founded Schünemann Verlag for the book printing and newspaper sectors . The traditional company is still based in its headquarters, the Schünemann-Haus directly on the Weser, making it the oldest publishing house in Germany that still existed at the place where it was founded.

In 1812 he became a partner in the Simon Ernsting printing company. The department newspaper - the Journal du Département des Bouches du Weser - was printed here in German and French in 1812 . From this newspaper the Neue Bremer Zeitung emerged as early as 1813 , which was printed by Schünemann until 1815. Ernsting left the company in 1815 and Schünemann acquired the printing license, but lost rights to the newspaper to the Heyse bookstore.

In 1817 he also received a concession for a book publisher and in 1829 a range bookstore was attached to it. The “ Museum der neue Literatur ” shop was located at Obernstraße 11 and moved to Obernstraße 35 in 1833. In 1835 he moved this shop to his parent company in the second battle gate and simply called it Carl Schünemann Buchhandlung. The bookstore was to be taken over by Johann Kühtmann from 1845 while retaining the name . In 1847 the previous company name then expired.

The company paper shop , playing card factory, book printer and publishing book shop Carl Schünemann existed in the at that time still smaller house No. 7 in the second Schlachpforte .

aftermath

Gustav Bernhard Schünemann (1815–1865) and Carl Eduard Schünemann (1855–1921) followed the company's founder in the management of the company. In 1833 the Bremen Weekly News was created , called Bremer Nachrichten from 1854 ; initially as an advertising paper and from 1871 as a daily newspaper, initially printed by Schünemann and taken over by the publisher in 1860. Between 1860 and 1974 - with the exception of the years 1936 to 1949 - the Schünemann Verlag published the Bremer Nachrichten .

In 1844 the national business newspaper, the Weser-Zeitung , appeared for the first time and was also printed by Schünemann. Around 1849 the following were also printed here: the Vegesacker Wochenblatt , the Tageschronik and, from 1859, the Bremer Telegraph .

The company expanded to include houses No. 5, 6 and 8 in the second battle gate. A new building was built from 1926 to 1928.

Today's publishing house was named after Carl Eduard Schünemann, who managed the company from 1880 to 1921.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .