JD Küster printing company

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The JD Küster printing company is a company based in Bielefeld ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) that was independent until it was bought by the Wilhelm Bertelsmann publishing house in 1870. Its beginnings go back to the year 1661.

The magazine Das Westphälische Dampfboot was printed here as early as 1846 and the weekly newspaper Westfälischer Volksfreund was printed here in 1848 . The Bielefelder Tagblatt , the predecessor of today's Neue Westfälische , was also created in this printing house.

The company still exists today under the name JD Küster Nachf. + Presse-Druck GmbH & Co. KG and belongs to the Neue Westfälische.

  • The Westphalian steamboat. Edition March 1846

  • Title page of the 1st edition of the “Westphalian People's Friend”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal President gives the ceremonial speech on the 200th birthday of the NW , at the same time the 350th birthday of JD Küster ( memento of March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 27, 2011
  2. ↑ Thomas Schuler: Die Mohns: From provincial bookseller to global corporation: The family behind Bertelsmann . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37307-2 , p. 33 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Entry in the Electronic Federal Gazette of December 29, 2008

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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 23.8 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 40.7"  E