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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

Family grave David Stempel in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main

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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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