Borkmann printing company

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The Borkmann printing company was a German printing company with a publisher in Weimar and was in the service of the Thuringian NSDAP even before the Nazi era .

history

The printing company was founded by Rudolf Borkmann in Weimar in 1876. From the beginning she was housed in the rear building at Jakobstrasse 2. After 1933, the gate passage was redesigned, among other things you can still see four reliefs with symbols of the printing trade. The printing company had been producing all of the Weimar NSDAP's fonts and posters since 1926. Among them was "The National Socialist", the forerunner of the "Thüringer Gauzeitung", which was published by Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel . Hans Severus Ziegler was its chief editor. As a staunch National Socialist, Paul Borkmann, who had taken over the printing company from his father in 1930, also supplied the Wehrmacht and, from April 1940, the Buchenwald concentration camp . In addition to wrapping paper, various forms from the concentration camp, such as the calculation of food rations, telex and invoices, came from this printing house.

Paul Borkmann was arrested in 1945 and died that same year. The print shop was expropriated in 1948.

Published fonts (selection)

Due to the frequent change of names, the actual names for the publisher are shown.

  • The National Socialist (later: Thüringer Gauzeitung )
  • Paul Grau: Chronicle of the City of Vacha. Festschrift to celebrate the 75th annexation of the office and the city of Vacha to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar, Vacha: Borkmann 1891.
  • Location index of the Thuringian states based on the census of December 1, 1910, ed. v. Statistical Bureau of the United Thuringian States in Weimar, v. Statistical Bureau of the Herzogl. Saxon. State Ministry in Meiningen, v. Statistical Bureau of the Herzogl. Saxon. Ministry of State in Gotha, Weimar: Borkmann 1912.
  • Karl Radicke (ed.): Foreign-language optical dictionary. Part IV: Microscopes, Weimar: R. Borkmann Verlag 1928.
  • Hans Funcke: The German optical and precision engineering industry in the post-war period (Diss. Cologne) Rud. Borkmann; Weimar 1931.
  • Adolf Bartels : The last power of attorney. A novel from the Bismarckian era, Weimar: Rudolf Borkmann 1931.
  • Albrecht von Heinemann: Sensitive hiking in Weimar. A colorful picture book. Illustrated by Hanns-Marcus Wittig. Weimar: Borkmann, 1932.
  • Karl Treffurth: The sex love , Rudolf Borkmann Weimar, 1939.
  • Tariff regulation for employees in central German lignite mining from February 22, 1939 according to salary table A , Weimar: Buchdruckerei und Verlag Rudolf Borkmann 1939.
  • Anselm Markau: Poems . First edition Rudolf Borkmann: Weimar undated [probably published in 1944/1945].
  • WA Beckert: The truth about the Buchenwald concentration camp. The factual report of a long-term political prisoner of Hitler's Gestapo about the Buchenwald-Weimar concentration camp, (self-published) Weimar 1945 and Rudolf Borkmann KG (publisher of antifascist literature) 1946.

See also

Thuringia under National Socialism

Web links

literature

  • Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Böhlau, Weimar 1993, p. 96.
  • Jens Schley: Neighbor Buchenwald. The city of Weimar and its concentration camp 1937-1945. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1993, pp. 79, 137.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With a portrait of the author from 1939 on a mounted board, inscribed. with "FM 39". Probably the only publication with 40 poems by the poet from Weimar, who was born in 1920 and died very young in 1944 in the Second World War , the last poem was dated June 19, 1944. Orig. Condition: with handwriting. Entry “Elisabeth Opitz by Prof. Markau and Mrs. Isi June 1948. Weimar, Kurtstr. 5 “(description of the antiquarian bookshop). Accordingly, Anslem Markau is the son of the artist Franz Markau .