Printer H. Osterwald

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The Mendini house of Madsack on the road Lange Laube corner Stiftstraße today occupies part of the former building of the printing house H. Osterwald one

The H. Osterwald printing house in Hanover was one of the leading printing houses in the capital of Lower Saxony until it was closed in 1974 . The printing company developed from a company founded in the 1860s that also operated as a publisher .

history

The company was founded during the Kingdom of Hanover on August 20, 1863 as a " bookbinding , gallantry , paper business" by the offspring of a farming family, the trained bookbinder and entrepreneur Heinrich Osterwald (* 1838 in Hanover; † January 18, 1897 ibid). In the early days of the German Empire , the company operated in 1875 at the Osterstrasse 84 corner at the corner of Röselerstrasse (towards the Aegidienkirche ) as a “bookbindery, paper shop u. Cardboard factory ”before it was expanded into a printing shop in 1890. This initially specialized in printed matter for the railroad, the police, the military and various financial authorities.

In 1892, Osterwald's nephew Heinrich Behrens († 1916) took part in the company, became the guild chief master and member of the board, and after Osterwald's death, he continued to run the printing company on his own instead of his son Otto († 1901). In 1903, however, he involved the printer Paul Schefe , who came from Mecklenburg , in the operation and moved it to Mehlstrasse . The early introduction of rotary printing helped the company to quickly become one of the leading printing companies in Hanover with its own advertising department and field staff . As early as 1912, the company was able to move into its own new building at Stiftstrasse 2 , built by the architect Wilhelm Mackensen .

In the middle of the First World War , the H. Osterwald printing company produced the first edition of the novel Die Häuser von Ohlenhof , published by Sponholtz Verlag . The novel of a village by Hermann Löns . Heinrich Behrens' son of the same name returned from the war in 1918, who then took over the position and function of his father, added offset printing to the printing company at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1920 and added a copper gravure department in 1924 . In 1930 Erich , son of the printer Paul Schefe, also became a partner in the company. In the 1930s, also was natural colors - Photography developed by the printing house after long test series in multi-color - gravure gained a leading position in the art of printing in Europe.

In 1943, during the numerous air raids on Hanover, most of the print shop became “[...] a victim of the flames.” During the clean-up work with employees who were not drafted for military service, temporary quarters were also set up in Hoya and Hildesheim .

After the approval of the military commanders of the British occupation zone , the H. Osterwald printing company was able to start a new beginning in the rubble: Heinz Baumgarte, a former apprentice who had returned from prisoner-of-war , found a job in the printing company in April 1946 . In the early years of the economic boom , the H. Osterwald printing company was able to resume production in a newly built printing house at the same location in 1951 and then developed into the largest gravure printing company in the Lower Saxony state capital with 8 and 10-color rotary presses . There, the artist and printing technician Alfred Hickethier had his Hickethier color code produced by the Hanover printing company in 1952 - and as a commission to Der Polygraph in Frankfurt am Main . These were cube-shaped prints of pigment colors in their pure coloring and - based on this - 999 variations in 40 tables on 99 pages. After interruptions due to study trips , the painter Heinz Baumgarte returned to Hanover in 1959 and took over the retouching department and the associated apprenticeship training at Osterwald.

A good decade later, the printing company ran into financial difficulties in the early 1970s, moved to Laatzen in 1971 and went bankrupt in 1972 . After Hanno-Druck GmbH , a company of the Jänecke Group , continued operations for a short time , both printing plants were liquidated in 1974 .

The large building complex at Stiftstrasse 2 is now part of the Mendini House managed by the Madsack publishing company .

Fonts (selection)

  • Osterwald ABC. Sample book for the selection of our fonts, at the same time a guide for designers (162 pages + 4 pages addendum), Hanover: Druckerei H. Osterwald, [circa 1960]
  • Various annual calendars from the H. Osterwald printing company are available as periodicals in the German National Library for the period from 1958 to 1960

literature

  • 75 years of service at the printing plant. H. Osterwald printing works, Hanover 1863–1938 ( Festschrift ), 1938
  • Ehrhard Frühsorge (text), Franz Lazi et al. (Photographs): Hundred years of printing by H. Osterwald, Hanover, eighteen hundred and sixty-three to nineteen hundred and sixty-three (28 sheets), Hanover: Osterwald, 1963

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the - older - Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon (sd) still names "1916" as the year the new building was occupied.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dirk Böttcher : OSTERWALD, (2) Heinrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , pp. 277f .; online through google books
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, the imprint to oV : Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature ( August Heitmüller drew the heads; Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant), Vol. 2, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1928, [without page number]
  3. ↑ Otto Elsner (Ed.): 75 years of service at the printing plant. In: The paper manufacturer . Magazine for paper, cardboard, wood, straw and pulp production. Official body of the Association of Pulp and Paper Chemists and Engineers. Organ of the economic group of paper, cardboard, cellulose and wood pulp production and their specialist groups , Volume 36, Berlin: Elsner, 1938, p. 610; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hugo Thielen : Osterwald - Printer H. Osterwald. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 490; online through google books
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Compare NN : Service at the printing unit. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954 , with assistance in the textual and illustrative design of Heinz Lauenroth , Ewald Brix and Herbert Mundhenke , publisher: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag Kommandit-Gesellschaft, Hanover (Seelhorststrasse 46), September 1954, p. 85
  6. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and cross-references .
  7. ↑ Compare the information (downloadable as a PDF document ) on the loens-verband.de page .
  8. ↑ a b N.N. : Heinz Baumgarte ( curriculum vitae ), in: Helmut Plath : Hannover. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and sketches by Heinz Baumgarte , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer (HMH), Hanover: HMH, 1969, p. 4.
  9. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  10. ^ Roy Osborne : Books on Color 1495-2015: History and Bibliography (in English), Lulu Print: 2015, ISBN 978-1-326-45971-0 , online via Google Books
  11. ^ Robert Mehl: Interferente facade / Alessandro and Francesco Mendini designed a new building shell in Hanover. In: DBZ - Deutsche Bauzeitschrift -online , 03/2008 edition, copy online on the robertmehl.de page


Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '35.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 48.8"  E