German architecture and industry publisher

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German architecture and industry publisher
legal form GmbH
founding 1919
resolution around 1932
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Berlin - Halensee
management Louis Benjamin

The Deutsche Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag , DARI or Dari-Verlag for short , was a Berlin - Halensee- based publisher , which from 1919 to 1932/1933 published a total of 166 ad-financed compilations on cities, districts and landscapes in several series and various individual titles or published traffic topics. Some of the books appeared in several editions. The series Deutschland Städtebau , comprising 141 individual titles, became particularly well known, some of which have since been reprinted .

The DARI-Verlag published numerous self-representations of municipalities, but also cross-municipal boundaries to regions such as Ruhrland from 1925, for which the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations (AIV) acted as the client, or the issues of the Dusseldorf administrative region (in two volumes) and Altmärkische Städtebilder from 1931. The last editions of the urban development series appeared in 1931, the volumes Torgau and Potsdam district . The inflationary spread of advertising-financed city presentations, with which local politicians and the city administration wanted to put their city in the right light independently, and the incalculable value of the sometimes multi-page advertisements of the companies, in connection with the sometimes questionable business practices of the publishers, finally called towards the end of the 1920s Economic associations such as Reich ministries on the scene. The global economic crisis finally caused the advertising publishers and thus their ranks to collapse. As a result, DARI-Verlag went bankrupt in 1931/1932 . Remaining stocks that were still present were hardly deductible from 1933 onwards. The beginning of the “Third Reich” under the now ruling National Socialists was accompanied by a distancing from the system time on the part of the city and local governments, which were now under new leadership.

Louis Benjamin

According to the address books of the city of Berlin from 1919 to 1933, the Jewish publishing bookseller Louis Benjamin was the owner and director of the publishing house from 1919 to 1928/1929, and according to the address book entries it also bore his name until 1925: “Dari” Deutsche Architektur- und Industrie -Publisher Louis Benjamin .

In 1919 the Berlin address books name neither Louis Benjamin himself nor the publisher. It was not until 1920 that both were listed under one address. In the following year the company moved into the second floor of the house at Hektorstrasse 6 in Wilmersdorf, from which the publishing house was from then on and under which Benjamin also took up his apartment. The address was always added: "Post Halensee". Around 1927 it was apparently renamed "Dari-Verlag GmbH". Benjamin himself is only listed as the owner in the Berlin address books until 1925. In the following years the publisher and Benjamin continued to reside at one address until the issue for 1929. The publisher had a new address in 1930 and 1931, but from 1932 onwards there was no entry. Benjamin, on the other hand, still lived in Wilmersdorfer Hektorstrasse in 1933. However, the address book from 1934 no longer has an entry for him.

In 1994, the Cologne JP Bachem publishing a reprint of the 1926 published the third edition of the Cologne edition of the series Germany urbanism hung up, thanked the then chairman of the AIV Cologne, Karl Ernst Vetter, in his preface to the JP Bachem publishing and that of the publication by AIV appointed coordinator Heribert Hall "for the persistence and patience in the negotiations with the original publisher, which was discovered more by chance than still or re-existent." And Hall himself spoke on the same occasion Manfred Wandtke as a partner of DARI-Verlag GmbH & Co. his thanks.

Publication series

Germany's urban development

DARI-Verlag was able to publish 141 titles in this series from 1919 to 1931. The volume on the city of Harburg should be the 75th in 1923. Some appeared in the second or third edition, such as Aachen and Cologne. The number of copies in which they were printed is not known. Depending on the size of the municipality, it is realistic to assume 3,000 to 10,000 copies; with the third edition from 1926, the Cologne title appeared in a total print run of 30,000. While the DARI-Verlag zu Cologne published a commemorative publication on the occasion of the German Architects and Engineers' Day there and thus published four works on the city ​​run by Konrad Adenauer , no editions appeared on Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Munich. But to numerous smaller municipalities or districts, such as Bamberg or Wernigerode (both in two editions). This corresponded to the set goal of presenting a cross-section through the republic. It was also sold through regular bookshops, but to a large extent as a promotional gift from the issuing municipalities. In particular, the bound unpaginated advertising blocks that form a book within a book are of importance today from an economic-historical point of view in connection with the company chronicles and illustrations. In their entirety, the books in the series are often the only architectural and economic history depictions of the 1920s on the municipalities portrayed.

At the same time, this series of publications by DARI-Verlag competed with the “Monographs of German Cities” (published in 40 volumes up to 1930) published by Deutsche Kommunal-Verlag (DKV) and the series “Deutsche Verlags-AG” in Berlin-Schöneberg City - German Land ”(14). The art and industry publishing house O. Hinderer from Stuttgart ("German cities") and Burkhard in Berlin ("The city. Monographs of cities capable of development.") Pursued a similar conception regarding the combination of city portraits and self-financing through commercial advertising. Other publishers concentrated on architectural monographs, such as the Friedrich Ernst Hübsch publishing house in Berlin ( Neue Werkkunst , 120 editions), which also published the series Neue Stadtbaukunst (20 editions) at the same time .

After the Second World War , the Landesdienst Verlag , which was initially based in Brilon and Basel , then in Berlin and finally in Munich, published a series of publications in a similar format up to the 1980s under the title “Germany's Urban Development, Communal and Economics” . But there were other companies at that time that published in the same range. However, their products often remained at the level of advertising publications and did not come close to the city presentations by DARI-Verlag.

"In retrospect, Germany's urban development from DARI-Verlag proves to be the most extensive and richest series of this genre."

German agriculture

From 1920 to 1931 the series Deutscher Landbau appeared in a total of nine partial volumes and sometimes in several editions . It addressed different agricultural regions from Baden to Hesse , Lower Saxony , Brandenburg and Pomerania to Lower Silesia . In addition to the representation of the landscape, its history and the architecture that occurs, the protection of the homeland , the preservation of the traditional landscape, was in the foreground.

Urban development - European economy. The Czechoslovak Republic

The probably broader series was ultimately limited to the German-speaking area of ​​the Czechoslovak Republic in its eight published volumes . In 1927 a volume on the city of Karlsbad was published. This was followed by Bratislava in 1928, Pilsen in 1929, Mährisch Ostrau and the Ostrau-Karwiner coal mining district in 1930, Olomouc in 1931 and Znojmo and the surrounding area in 1932. In 1933 the Riesengebirge and Hohenelbe editions (commemorative publication for the four-centenary of the free mountain town 1533–1933) completed the series in terms of publishing.

Traffic books

In this series only the volume Rhein-Donau-Verkehrsbuch, a traffic-economic and hydraulic engineering manual on the expansion of the Rhine-Danube waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea (1926) appeared.

Other titles

In addition to a paper on the AEG power plant buildings from the early days of the publisher (around 1921), of the seven publications outside of the aforementioned series, there are two in addition to the two titles on the technical universities in Danzig (1930) and Braunschweig (1931) Special to mention. These are the commemorative publications for the German Architects and Engineers Days in Cologne in 1927 and in Ludwigshafen in 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Jaeger: "Germany's Urban Development". City monographs from DARI-Verlag. In: From the antiquarian bookshop, magazine for antiquarians and book collectors ( ISSN  0343-186X ), issue 5/2004 of October 8, 2004, pp. 356–361 (with bibliography )
  2. ↑ a b c d Roland Jaeger: "Deutschlands Städtebau". City monographs from DARI-Verlag. In: From the antiquarian bookshop, magazine for antiquarians and book collectors ( ISSN  0343-186X ), 5/2004, October 8, 2004, p. 359.
  3. ^ Jewish address book for Greater Berlin. Edition 1929/30. (PDF) Goedega Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Benjamin . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1919, Part I, p. 152.
  5. ↑ Dar ... In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1919, Part I, p. 422.
  6. ↑ Benjamin, Louis, businessman . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, Part I, p. 152.
  7. ^ "Dari" German architecture and industry publishing house . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, Part I, p. 421.
  8. ↑ Benjamin, Louis . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, Part I, p. 166.
  9. ↑ Benjamin, Louis . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, Part I, p. 176.
  10. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1927, Part I, p. 509.
  11. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1928, Part I, p. 515.
  12. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, Part I, p. 481.
  13. ↑ Benjamin, Louis . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1929, Part I, p. 194.
  14. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1929, Part I, p. 532.
  15. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, Part I, p. 496.
  16. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, Part I, p. 510.
  17. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, Part I, p. 507.
  18. ↑ Dari . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1933, Part I, p. 412.
  19. ↑ Benjamin, Louis . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, Part I, p. 151.
  20. ↑ Benjamin . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1934, Part I, p. 139.
  21. ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association for the Lower Rhine and Westphalia (ed.): Cologne. Structural development 1888–1927. Berlin 1927. (Reprint: Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88375-965-4 )
  22. ^ Roland Jaeger: "Germany's Urban Development". City monographs from DARI-Verlag. In: From the antiquarian bookshop, magazine for antiquarians and book collectors ( ISSN  0343-186X ), 5/2004, October 8, 2004, p. 357.
  23. ↑ a b c d e Roland Jaeger: "Deutschlands Städtebau", city monographs from the DARI publishing house. In: From the antiquarian bookshop, magazine for antiquarians and book collectors ( ISSN  0343-186X ), issue 5/2004 of October 8, 2004, p. 358.
  24. ↑ The Rhine Palatinate and its buildings. Commemorative publication of the Palatinate Architects and Engineers Association for the German Architects and Engineers' Day in Ludwigshafen in 1928.