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David Stempel (born September 9, 1869 in Lambsheim , † November 1, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German type founder and entrepreneur.
Life
On January 15, 1895, the businessman David Stempel, who had previously worked at the Roos & Junge type foundry in Offenbach am Main , founded the D. Stempel type foundry in Sachsenhausen . It initially had two machines and employed two workers. Initially, she made the casting of the exclusion and filler material. After acquiring the Juxberg-Rust type foundry in Offenbach, the company began cutting and casting work and distinctive typefaces in 1897 .
In 1898, Stempel accepted his brother-in-law, the engineer Wilhelm Cunz (1869–1951), and the type founder Peter Scondo (1854–1908) as partners in the company. The foundry was now joined by a stamp cutting shop, a machine factory for special machines and auxiliary equipment for the type foundry (1899), an electroforming department (1902), a joinery , a bookbinding shop , an in-house printing shop and finally a brass line factory in 1903.
In 1901, Stempel was one of the founders of the Gutenberg Society and sponsored the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz . He had been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran City Synod since 1915 and Deputy President of the United Evangelical Lutheran and Evangelical Reformed City Synod from 1921 to 1927 . He belonged to the constituent church assembly and the regional church assembly of the Evangelical regional church in Frankfurt am Main .
Honors
The David Stamp street in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt am Main was named after the entrepreneur.
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literature
- Chronicle of the type foundry Stempel . Frankfurt am Main 2002 ( as pdf )
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 429 f .
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SURNAME | Stamp, David |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German type founder and entrepreneur |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lambsheim |
DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1927 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |