H. Heenemann printer

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H. Heenemann GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1906
Seat Berlin GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Dirk Hentschler (Managing Director)
sales EUR 15.7 million in 2014
Branch Publishing company
Website Company website

The H. Heenemann printing company is a publishing company and printing company founded in 1906 by Hans Heenemann in Berlin as the Berlin-Wilmersdorfer-Zeitung book printing company . Today, the medium-sized family business, as the H. Heenemann GmbH group of companies in Berlin, includes book and offset printing companies as well as publishing companies, an advertising agency and an online shop . As part of its business activities, it is significantly involved in the creation of printed matter for the state organs of the Federal Republic of Germany .

history

On September 16, 1906, Johannes Friedrich Otto Heenemann, known as Hans Heenemann, took over the publishing house of the Wilmersdorfer Zeitung in Berlin . The daily newspaper , which appeared between 1900 and 1912, was the official publication organ of the Wilmersdorf district from 1907 . For this purpose, Hans Heenemann and his brother Fritz founded the publishing house for the Wilmersdorfer Zeitung Johannes Heenemann , whose editorial office and office were initially at Uhlandstrasse 110/111. At the same time, a special printing plant was set up at Uhlandstrasse 102, which was entered in the commercial register in 1908 as the Berlin-Wilmersdorfer-Zeitung book printing company . From then on, Uhlandstrasse 102 housed both companies, and in the following years various books, newspapers and commercial printing were published and printed there. When the First World War broke out, the company had a hand setting , two Linotype typesetting machines and a stereotype . The printing was done on five high-speed presses and two platen printing presses . Including editorial and bookbinding , 40 people were employed, but these fell to 25 in the course of the war.

In 1919 Gertrude Heenemann, Hans Heenemann's wife, inherited her father's print shop, Franz Weber, from her brother Carl, who died in 1918, and sold it on in the same year. In this printing house, which had printed the Wilmersdorfer Zeitung until 1908, Hans Heenemann was managing director until 1906.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Hans Heenemann succeeded in merging the Wilmersdorfer Zeitung with the Charlottenburger Abendpost, the Schöneberger Echo and the Schmargendorf-Grunewalder Post and from 1920 to 1932 re-published it as the daily newspaper for all of West Berlin under the name Der Berliner Westen . The two companies were also renamed. The publishing house Hans Heenemann was established at the old location and the Westliche Berliner Verlagsgesellschaft KG on the neighboring property at Uhlandstrasse 101 / Wilhelmsaue 21-23. After Hans Heenemann's death shortly after his fiftieth birthday on December 8, 1924, his wife Gertrude continued to run the company, until 1930 their son Horst Heenemann was able to take over the business after completing his apprenticeship as a printer and studying philosophy . In addition to newspaper and book printing, various other printing work was carried out and the publishing industry expanded. By the outbreak of World War II , the company employed 145 people, including a number of family members.

The company survived the war largely unscathed, but was dismantled in 1945 by the Soviet occupying power on the basis of the Potsdam Agreement as a reparation payment and the empty buildings in Uhlandstrasse were confiscated by the British occupation authorities for an occupation printing plant a little later. With machines acquired second-hand from smaller, bombed-out book printers, Horst Heenemann began to rebuild the company in Wilhelmsaue, which in 1948 again had 19 employees. In 1949, Wilhelm Pansegrau Verlag , Berlin was also taken over. After the British occupation printer moved out of the premises in Uhlandstrasse in 1952, the company was able to return to its old place of work.

In 1957, the city of Berlin claimed the area on which the company was located to widen Uhlandstrasse. As a result, the operations were relocated to the site at Bessemerstrasse 83-91, where they are to this day. As early as 1968, it was decided with the Hartmann brothers' print shop to begin with computer photo typesetting (Photon 713/10, later Digiset 40T3). A company of its own developed from these acquisitions, the SRZ Satz-Rechenzentrum Hartmann + Heenemann GmbH & Co , in which the printing companies are still involved today. In 1976 the brothers Hartmann printing works were taken over by H. Heenemann. In addition, the metal type was reduced to a minimum and the photo typesetting and the offset department expanded.

The operation today

Since 1997 the company has been concentrating increasingly on digital printing, also as an online printing company . For this purpose, a Heidelberg Speedmasteer XL 106-5-P3 + L, a Polar LRXT cutting system and a Polar 56 NET cutting machine and, in 2013, an HP Indigo 10000, the first digital sheet printing machine in the format 53 × 75 cm, were purchased. As a medium-sized company, you have an environmental management system that is compliant with ISO 14001 and EMAS III. Since 2005 around 35,000 printed matter have been produced for the German Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the Federal President.

Group of companies

The company is a partner with unlimited liability of Westliche Berliner Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG, the Brothers Hartmann GmbH & Co. KG. as well as the book and offset printing company H. Heenemann GmbH & Co. KG. Via the latter, there are holdings in DDZ Digital-Druck-Zentrum GmbH (50%), besscom AG (32.5%) and Heenemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (5%).

Publications

  • The west of Berlin. (6 times a week)
  • Wilmersdorfer Zeitung. (6 times a week)
  • The flame. (twice a month, print run 20,000)
  • Municipal Gazette. (three times a month, 4,000)
  • The driving doctor. (three times a month, 4,000)
  • From war to peace. (twice a month, 21,000)
  • Red cross leaves. (monthly, 10,000)
  • Hermann Muckermann : On the being and ought of humans . Berlin 1954, OCLC 29116634 .
  • Siegfried Aufhäuser : On the threshold of the age of the employees. 1963.
  • Paul Friedrich Meyer-Waarden : The fishing industry of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1950.
  • Günter Ammon : Domination and Aggression. 1969.
  • Hans Reinicke: The fate of evils in the worldview of Greek thinkers. 1969.
  • Dieter Claessens , Jochen Fuhrmann , Otto Stammer : Employees and workers in the company pyramid. 1959.
  • Lily Ehrenfried : Physical education for mental balance. 1967.

literature

  • Erwin Hambloch: 100 years of Heenemann printing: 1906–2006. Main band, band 1 . Book and offset printing company H. Heenemann, Berlin 2006, p. 149 .
  • Hans Heenemann (Ed.): The "Heenemänner" tell . Book and publishing printer Hans Heenemann, Berlin, p. 51 ( Google Books - ca.1935).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Wilmersdorfer Zeitung: independent daily newspaper for d. West of Greater Berlin. In: Berlin State Library. Retrieved January 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Literature by and about H. Heenemann in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b c d Chronicle. In: H.Heenemann. Retrieved January 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The West of Berlin. In: Berlin State Library. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
  6. ^ The Potsdam Agreement of August 2, 1945 had allowed the Soviet Union to receive reparations from the other zones as well.
  7. ↑ Vinz, Olzock, Hacker: documentation of German-language publishers . tape 3 . Redline Wirtschaft, Berlin 1968, OCLC 258603517 , p. 348 ( google books ).
  8. ↑ Documents offset printing company H. Heenemann. In: German Bundestag. Retrieved January 15, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 39 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 4 ″  E