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| D. Stempel AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1895 |
| resolution | 1985 |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| Branch | Type foundry |
The D. Stempel AG was a German type foundry . In addition to companies such as H. Berthold AG , the Bauerschen Gießerei and the Gebr. Klingspor foundry , it was one of the most important font houses of the 20th century.
history
From 1895 to 1945
The company was founded on January 15, 1895 by David Stempel (1869–1927) in Frankfurt am Main as an open trading company (OHG). She initially dealt with the casting of exclusion and filling material as well as the production of roller mass and rollers for the needs of the book printing company. In 1898 David Stempel's brother-in-law, the engineer Wilhelm Cunz (1869–1951) and the type founder Peter Scondo (1854–1908) became partners. In the same year, the Juxberg-Rust type foundry from Offenbach was taken over; so began the production of fonts. A hand stamping shop, an in-house printing shop, a bookbinding shop and our own machine factory for the production of special machines and auxiliary equipment for our own foundry were set up.
In 1900, Stempel became the exclusive font supplier for the matrices for the Linotype typesetting and casting machine sold by the German Linotype company . By 1974, however, almost all of the fonts were also available for manual typesetting.
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Via the intermediate step of a limited liability company (GmbH) in 1901, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1905 . In 1910 the company moved into a new five-storey factory building on Hedderichstrasse in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen .
Several acquisitions - such as the holdings of the W. Drugulin type foundry in 1919 - gave Stempel AG numerous valuable original matrices from past centuries. In the following years, with careful adaptation, classics were repeatedly rescued from these holdings for the modern age. For such a new version as close to the original included the Print Claude Garamond based and Andreas Vistula writings of Garamond - family , as Stempel Garamond published in 1925 by D. Stempel AG. From 1935 to 1937 six cuts from Friedrich Heinrichsen's Broken Grotesk Gotenburg were published .
In 1941, the Berlin-based Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH, a subsidiary of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company from Brooklyn , New York , became the majority owner.
From 1945 to 1985
In the years from 1950 onwards, some of Hermann Zapf's most important typefaces appeared , such as Palatino and Gilgengart in 1950 , Virtuosa and Melior in 1952 , Saphir in 1953 and the classic Optima in 1958 . Zapf's wife Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse also published at Stempel, for example the Diotima group from 1953.
In 1954, D. Stempel AG became the majority owner of Haas'schen Schriftgiesserei through the takeover of shares owned by H. Berthold AG . The connection between Stempel and Haas goes back to 1927, the year D. Stempel AG participated in Haas'schen Schriftgiesserei.
Since the agreement of an interest group with Gebr. Klingspor in 1917, Stempel has also expanded his commitment to Klingspor more and more. In 1956 the rest of the company and its font range were taken over.
In 1961 the Helvetica appeared at D. Stempel AG , designed by Max Miedinger as Neue Haas-Grotesk at Haas and distributed worldwide after the takeover by D. Stempel AG. It is now a classic and one of the most widely used fonts.
In 1967 the Sabon Jan Tschicholds , still referred to by some as the ideal Garamond , was presented. It was a joint effort by D. Stempel, Linotype GmbH and Monotype, as German printers demanded a font that would run on both types of typesetting machines without modifications.
In 1968, the production of fonts for Linotype photo typesetting machines began, and with it the switch to a new font technology. In the same year, Hans Eduard Meier's syntax was published , who had already started working on this font family in 1955.
In 1974, Present Stempel's last hand typesetting appeared. In 1977 the production of phototypesetting machines such as the typomatic stamp and digital fonts , for example for Linotype CRtronic, began. However, this came much later than the rest of the industry. A year later, the font department from Berthold & Stempel was handed over to Haas. In 1983 the production of dies for the Linotype typesetting machine was stopped.
Photo and computer typesetting caused the market for metal type to shrink considerably. In 1985 the majority owner Linotype GmbH decided to dissolve D. Stempel AG. The remaining type carrier production for photo typesetting was absorbed by Linotype GmbH. In 1986 the machines and other equipment of the Stempel type foundry were relocated from Frankfurt to Darmstadt to the House for Industrial Culture. The distribution of metal type fonts has now been taken over by Schriftenservice D. Stempel GmbH, which is now a branch of Walter Fruttiger AG in Münchenstein . The digital fonts are distributed by Linotype GmbH in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The shares of D. Stempel AG i. A. are now held by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG .
literature
- Ronald Schmets: From type casting. Portrait of the company D. Stempel. TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-88607-050-6 .
- Manfred Raether: Linotype - Chronicle of a company name . E-book, Schöneck 2009 (PDF file; 2.6 MB)
Web links
- Linotype GmbH
- Chronicle and list of publications at the Klingspor Museum (PDF file; 6.9 MB)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on D. Stempel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
swell
- ^ Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv - Dept. 134 - D. Stempel AG
- ↑ Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG: Annual Report 2017/2018 (p. 146) accessed on September 11, 2018