Druckkombinat Berlin

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VEB Druckkombinat Berlin,
from 1992: Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte
legal form Publicly owned company ,
converted into a GmbH in 1990,
since 2009 a non-profit foundation
founding July 1, 1951
Seat Berlin
management Plant managers and operations directors :
Waldemar Borde (1956–1967),
Heinz Worm (1967–1982)
Jürgen Fötsch (1982–1992)
Managing Director of GmbH Druckhaus Mitte:
Jürgen Fötsch (1992–1997)
Herbert Preißler (1997–2009)
Martin Lind ( since 2009)
Number of employees 1000 (1968)
0150 (1993)
sales 31.8 million marks (1967)
Branch printing house

General view of the former Mosse house,
in the printing combine Plant I

The Druckkombinat Berlin was one of the largest printing companies in East Berlin . Its origins lay in the Berlin newspaper district in Friedrichstadt . Numerous newspaper publishers had settled here at the beginning of the 20th century. Among them was Rudolf Mosse's newspaper publisher , who set up their own business in a new building . The Berliner Tageblatt was also produced in this building in 1918 in another printing house.

After change of ownership and owner of several small printers and publishers a was in the 1950s by merging state owned Kombinat been formed. Up until German reunification, it carried out almost all printing jobs for Berlin parties, mass organizations and large companies. These ranged from napkins , newspapers and low-circulation magazines, posters , certificates , all kinds of forms, invitations, books and glossy brochures. After 1990, a private investor from Würzburg took over a large part of the business, converted it into a GmbH and named it Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte (DBM).

history

Prehistory 1900–1945

The bookseller Rudolf Mosse had the architects Wilhelm Cremer and Richard Wolffenstein built a publishing house on Schützenstrasse in the middle of Berlin's newspaper district from 1901–1903 . From here horse-drawn carriages and later automobiles delivered the morning, noon, evening and night editions of the daily newspapers to the sellers throughout the city almost around the clock. The sheets had been made on the latest typesetting and printing machines . Due to the rapid growth of the industry, Mosse had the architect Erich Mendelsohn build an extension in the 1920s that gave the house the distinctive rounded corner. Up until the Second World War , the Berlin publishing house printed not only daily newspapers, but also magazines , course and cookbooks , posters for cinemas and theaters and various specialist magazines . During the Nazi era , daily newspapers continued to be produced in the Mossehaus, but the Berliner Tageblatt had to be abandoned.

Brief post-war development 1945–1950

At the end of the war, when the Allies mainly bombed the center of Berlin , the Mosse publishing house was also badly damaged in early February 1945.

With the division of Berlin , the newspaper district found itself in two different sectors of the city; for many years the Berlin Wall ran through the middle of the district. Schützenstrasse was in the Soviet sector . Large-scale industrialists and other manufacturers were expropriated , including Rudolf Mosse. The house itself was poorly rebuilt.

The remaining working print shop Berliner Verlagsanstalt GmbH and the technical equipment of the Tageblatt were subordinated to SMAD on May 16, 1945 and registered with the Berlin magistrate as the United Printers of the Daily Rundschau on May 26, 1945 . However, on May 15, 1945 , it already brought out the first post-war newspaper for Berlin, the Daily Rundschau with an initial circulation of 100,000 copies.

Rise and steady growth 1951–1990

On July 1, 1951, 53 small businesses from the printing industry merged to form VEB Industriedruck , which was divided into two parts of the plant (WT): WT I  (Mühlenstraße) and WT II (Markusstraße). For the purpose of training the next generation, the Central Graphics Workshop was established as a company vocational school in 1955 . In 1958, part III, the building of the former Mosse publishing house (Schützenstrasse) was added, in which 64 people were employed. In the course of the next few years , the workforce also grew through newly integrated, formerly independent small businesses.

On January 1, 1956, industrial printing became VEB Graphische Werkstätten Berlin ; the production workers had previously achieved a 6.4 percent increase in output using new working methods (Luise-Ermisch method) . The printer Waldemar Borde became the first head of the graphic workshops .

The war ruins in Schützenstrasse, which had been rebuilt in a simplified manner , no longer met the representational requirements of the East Berlin magistrate at the beginning of the 1960s, so that, among other things, the approximately 20-meter-high corner tower was given a smooth façade to "give the building a contemporary look". On September 29, 1961, the topping-out ceremony for the converted Mossehaus was celebrated.

After a Kreuzberg citizen dug an escape tunnel to Zimmerstrasse in the summer of 1962 in order to lead GDR refugees through this secret passage to West Berlin , the GDR border soldier Reinhold Huhn was shot dead after being asked to check persons. In his honor, Schützenstraße was given the new name Reinhold-Huhn-Straße in 1967 and a memorial stone was erected near the printing company.

In the 1960s, there was an enormous demand for print products, which is why a central Berlin working group had developed a program to gradually improve demand. The most important proposed measures were:

  1. Fundamental re-profiling of Berlin's printing industry,
  2. Covering the Berlin application volume is (now) a central task of the printing industry and its management,
  3. Provision of financial means for a better supply of printed matter in order to enable (for example) the purchase of new technology and the additional supply of paper for the printing combine.

The following products were defined as the number of applications in Berlin : printed advertising, printed matter for business, administration and the population, labels and magazines with special content.

For the printing company, this strategy paper revealed that further profiling had to be carried out according to the product principle, above all the magazine production in Reinhold-Huhn-Strasse had to be modernized. A new building was planned on the corner of Lichtenberger Bornitzstrasse and Ruschestrasse, in which printed advertising materials, including posters and all of the above-mentioned printed materials, were to be produced using the printing processes known at the time. A specially trained working group made up of engineers from the VOB Zentrag engineering office and technologists from the printing combine ( management team at the new Bornitzstrasse building ) examined the possibilities for implementation. As further developments showed, no new building was built.

On January 1, 1968, the graphic workshops and other companies formed the Druck Kombat Berlin , which carried out orders from the Berlin administration, political parties and mass organizations, theaters, cinemas and the state art market. At that time the printing company had around 2000 employees.

In May 1971 the then modern web offset printing process was introduced in the printing combine.

In the period 1972–1982 there was extensive construction work in the administration and production buildings, including in 1980 a freight elevator was installed. In September 1974 the youth object offset printing was handed over.

Between 1976 and 1985, the Druckkombinat invested in an extension of the main building (a fifth and a sixth floor) in Reinhard-Huhn-Straße in order to concentrate the operational parts and administration; in addition, some open spaces were created in Köpenicker Straße, Inselstraße and Seydelstraße newly designed.

After Heinz Worm's retirement in 1982, Jürgen Fötsch, a graduate economist, was the last operational director of VEB Druckkombinat, who held this position until 1992, after which he became managing director of GmbH Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte.

State-of-the-art technology gradually found its way into the various operating parts of the printing combine, for example a programming device (LP 307) for the layout, a scanner (399 ER) , a photo typesetting system (2000 series) , a complete napkin printing and packaging system (Hobema / Senning) , offset printing machines (P 44 SW 2) , laser imagesetter, laser printer and many others.

Struggle for survival 1992–2012 in Mitte

In 1992 the street got its former name Schützenstraße back. The entrepreneur Hans Röder from Würzburg acquired the printing combine from the Treuhandanstalt in 1992 and continued to run it as DBM Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte GmbH from July 1, 1992 . 150 employees were taken over, the main plant in what was then Reinhold-Huhn-Strasse (management, letterpress and offset printing, photo typesetting, poster and stamp production, express and business stationery) and Seydelstrasse (chemistry / offset production, photo documentation (patents), napkin production / Cake papers, embossed printing / wreath loops and pennants) initially remained.

On the other hand , some of the earlier branches were privatized , including, for example, Klaus Regel's printing workshop in Friedrichshainer Samariterstraße, or they were returned to their previous owners.

Hans Röder had the entire building complex of the Mosse-Haus in the city center (Schützenstraße, Jerusalemer Straße, Zimmerstraße and Markgrafenstraße) completely gutted and renovated in accordance with the monument . It should be expanded to the Mosse Center . The redesign goes back to plans by the architects Fissler & Partner (Berlin), Bernd H. Kemper (Hanover) as well as Dieter W. Schneider (Berlin) and Hans G. Strauch (Boston), which rely heavily on the work of Mendelssohn from the 1920s Years supported. The construction management was the responsibility of the civil engineer Peter Kolb (Stuttgart). After completion of the renovation work, the DBM received the most modern digital printing machines, a content reorientation towards publications on German and European history, transport history and regional literature was started.

There was already a new owner in 2007 who transferred the DBM to a non-profit foundation in 2009. At the end of 2012, the Lind family, the favorite printer production agency , the internet entrepreneur Gi-Yong Choi and the management consultancy perPuls found themselves as new shareholders. The printing work continued with all organizational changes, so customers had to be recruited.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Initiative Berliner Zeitungsviertel e. V. , to which publicists , journalists and communication scientists belonged. They wanted to revive the history of what was once the world's largest press district. The Kreuzberg Museum is still involved in organizing guided tours “on the trail of the publishing empires”. Until 2012, the premises and the technology in the printing house in Berlin-Mitte could also be viewed. With the complete move out of the DBM, this offer for interested Berliners and / or tourists was canceled. In the now Mosse-Zentrum building complex, the Thales Group (security, military, transport) and the Dussmann Group (services) have been the main tenants since 2014 .

A little history excursion in the Mossehaus

In the atrium of the Mosse-Haus a small permanent exhibition of historical photos, books and documents from the history of the building was on view from 1993. In addition, a typesetting machine from 1922 has been preserved there, relatively unnoticed , which attentive visitors will not miss. It is a double-deck Linotype typesetting machine , one of many machines that used to be lined up in large rooms. In front of it the typesetters sat and entered texts on the keyboard, from where the machine formed printing matrices for the metal typesetting . The historic machine is also a testimony to Berlin's industry: it was manufactured by the Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik GmbH in Chausseestrasse according to the USA patent and sold throughout Europe.

Relocation of the company headquarters from 2013

In August 2013, the DBM moved close to the Südkreuz train station (Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 21-35). Official tours are not possible there, nor in the former Mosse-Haus. In contrast, there is an open house magazine for visitors .

In addition, the InaP (Information Center for Sustainable Print Production ) was launched in 2010, a series of events with workshops, lectures, panel discussions, public relations, guided tours, etc. a. Participation requires registration but is free of charge.

Structure of the printing combine

Economic organization

The higher-level state body was the VOB Zentrag .

In 1967

The management of VEB Druckkombinat (s) was based at Schützenstrasse (Reinhold-Huhn-Strasse) 18-25 at the corner of Jerusalemer Strasse 46/47. Subordinate to her were the direct departments of economics and planning, management as well as the areas of small offset , repro offset , advertising printing , grapho copy (a real photo print , e.g. often used for postcards) and art print . However, some of these were located in other Berlin districts:
Kleinoffset had three operations (one in Köpenicker Strasse 56, one in Chausseestrasse  17), repro-offset had two operations (Auguststrasse 26 and Neue Schönhauser Strasse 14), and advertising printing had two operations ( Johannisthal, Köpenicker Strasse 5-6 and Mitte, Oranienburger Strasse 38), Graphokopie had two operating parts (Stolpische Strasse 37 and Prenzlauer Allee) and the art print was in Berlin-Altglienicke (Rudower Strasse 28). [Situation at the end of 1967].
The printing work was carried out in four plants, which were also located in East Berlin :
Plant I in Reinhold-Huhn-Straße 13, Plant II in Lichtenberger Straße 50, Plant III in Dircksenstraße 47, Plant IV in Beuthstraße 7.

By 1989

The management (headquarters) was in the Reinhold Chicken Street 18-25, the operating part Chemigrafie / photo documentation / napkins production has been held since at least 1970 in the Beuthstraße 6-8 and in the Wöhlertstraße 12/13, the operational part of small offset was in Paul-Robeson-Straße 37 and Neue Schönhauser Straße 14 (the departments wreath loop, embossing, express printing), the art print section continued to use the production facility at Rudower Straße 28, at Chausseestraße 117 there was the business section Spitzenpapier and Köpenicker Straße 5/6 was the address of the paper preparation section .

Company expansions

(in brackets: year of incorporation into the printing combine) At the end of 1967, the printing combination included 85 companies with a total of 1,016 full-time employees (VbE; slightly less than the actual number of people).

1950s

  • Industriedruck (July 1, 1951, Rigaer Strasse in O 112
  • Buchdruckerei Osten (December 1, 1953), Kadiner Strasse 20
  • Silesia printing house (December 1, 1953), Marienburger Strasse 28
  • Felix Neuendorff (December 1, 1953), Klement-Gottwaldt-Allee 150 in Berlin-Weißensee
  • Paul Koch (December 1, 1953), Kastanienallee 32, Berlin N58
  • Paul Bartsch (December 1, 1953), Singerstraße 111, Berlin C2
  • Karl Lemke Graphische Kunstanstalt (July 1, 1954), Blumenstrasse Berlin C2
  • L. Barnick Offsetdruck (October 1, 1954), Markusstrasse 50, Berlin O 17, before 1945 R. Barnick, Art Print Agency
  • Patentcartonagenfabrik (October 1, 1954), Markusstrasse 50, Berlin O 17
  • CF Jaehde Galvanoplastik (July 1, 1956), Neue Jakobstrasse
  • Daily review (April 1, 1958), Schützenstrasse 18-25
  • Zoeke and Mittermeyer map printing (December 1, 1958), Höchst Strasse
  • Berek-Dewag poster printing house (January 1, 1959), Dircksenstrasse 47
  • Max Kramer Buchdruckerei (February 1, 1959), Landsberger Allee 125, Berlin NO 18
  • Magistrat's in- house print shop (June 1, 1959)
  • Fritz Gedat Printing and Paper Processing (August 1, 1959), Rungestrasse
  • Grandstand (September 1, 1959), the new Plant IV
  • Robert Fröhlich Book Printing and Bookbinding (October 1, 1959), Tilsiter Strasse
  • Gutenberg printing works (December 1, 1959), Schwedter Straße 263, before 1943 Gutenberg Wilhelm Möller printing works
  • Hans-Joachim Blankenberg Buchdruckerei (December 1, 1959), Schönhauser Allee
  • Daily Review - Complex Brigade (December 1, 1959)

1960s

  • Moriz and Kummer cash register factory (January 1, 1960), Elisabethstrasse
  • Part of the Neukölln industrial printing company Basedow & Co. (August 24, 1961), Kiefholzstrasse 183, Berlin-Baumschulenweg
  • Mauersberger (December 16, 1961), Kreuzstrasse 9, Berlin-Pankow
  • Rosenberg (January 1, 1962), Kopenhagener Strasse 72
  • Gehrmann printing works (February 16, 1962), Schönhauser Allee 78/79
  • Fritz Briese; Book printing orders (November 7, 1962),
  • Nationales Druckhaus , in-house printing of the NDPD , commercial department (February 26, 1963), Neue Jakobstrasse
  • New Germany , Sheetfed Printing Department (March 3, 1963), Franz-Mehring-Platz
  • VEB Stegrasieb , Dirksenstrasse, stamp department (January 1, 1966)
  • VEB Stegrasieb , hand engraving, screen printing, photo department (January 1, 1967)
  • Bear print (July 1, 1969), Franz-Mehring-Platz 1
  • Plant II of the Berlin printing works (July 1, 1969)

1970s and 1980s

These are the years when large-scale expropriations of small businesses took place; most were attached to a larger administration. The following were added to the printing combine:

  • Plant IV becomes the plant from Beuthstraße taken over by ND (January 1, 1972; chemical graphics and offset printing)
  • VEB small offset ; emerged from the printing works Wirsig, Roman Greulich (offset and stone printing, Georgenkirchstraße 40) and Tutschke (July 1, 1972)
  • VEB art print ; emerged from the Huth printing company (July 1, 1972), Berlin-Altglienicke
  • VEB repro offset ; emerged from the Graetz printing house (July 1, 1972); Auguststrasse 26
  • VEB grapho copy ; emerged from the printing works Sandler, Fiedler; Stolpische Strasse 37
  • Small offset and graphical copy were integrated into the Stolpische Strasse part of the business on January 1, 1976. There was already the collective printing, embossing and finishing here.
  • VEB advertising print ; first printing company Südost (July 1, 1972), Berlin-Johannisthal
  • Wodarz (February 1, 1973),
  • Publishing Bookbinding Berpaflex (also producer of parchment and greaseproof paper, 1st January 1980), Wöhlertstraße

Reprivatisation

At least one company became known that was re- privatized in the 1980s because its range was so special that it did not fit into the production process of the printing company. That affected the Grätz printing company at Auguststrasse 26.

tasks

In addition to the reliable, high-quality and fast processing of all types of printing and finishing jobs, the combine itself also trained apprentices in various professions, including office workers and printers , for whose graduation the Gautschfest was traditionally held.

An internal information sheet with photos, drawings and important information for the various parts of the combine was published around six to seven times a year: notifications . The first issue was in April 1960.

Like numerous other GDR companies, holiday homes and training centers, the printing combine operated in the Saxon town of Mulda , which was put into operation in June 1978.

Company sports festivals have been organized since 1956. Mutual exchanges of visits took place with trade union organizations from other European countries such as Poland , Belgium and Hungary , and friendship agreements were also concluded.

After the fall of the Wall in November 1989, part of the workforce at the printing combine tried to find and proclaim new positions in the world of work and in administrative structures.

Examples of products and publications from the various development phases:

  • 1952 / Industrial printing : poster for the day when apprenticeships began on September 1, 1952
  • 1953 / Industrial printing: poster for the appearance of the Artistic Ensemble of the National Security of Czechoslovakia in the Leipzig Exhibition Center
  • before 1961 / VEB Graphische Werkstätten Berlin: records; here with the musical fairy tale Hansel and Gretel
  • VEB Graphische Werkstätten Berlin: posters, theater information, books, ... in the Federal Archives
  • Druckkombinat: Numismatic booklets .
  • Druckkombinat: Cover images (political, film and theater posters, books, event booklets and more).
  • May 25, 1971: Seesport magazine in a first two-color web offset version
  • 1971: Poster for an exhibition of art from Romania in the Grassimuseum Leipzig
  • Since the late 1970s: In the Photo Documentation Department of the Printing Combine, copies of patent specifications were regularly made and sent to subscribers or on request. That was around two and a half million documents on an annual average.
  • 1981 / Druckkombinat: Poster for the DFD for March 8th according to Friedrich Schiller : "The happiness of the individual is inseparable from the happiness of everyone ...".

Development of the workforce

  • 1951: 64
  • around 1955: 342
  • 1967: 1016 VbE
  • 1993: 150

Special situations

In preparation for a GDR citizen's space flight, it was unclear which of the two German cosmonauts , who had been trained together until recently , would actually board the Soyuz rocket . The names of the space fliers - Sigmund Jähn and Eberhard Köllner - were known to those in charge of the GDR for a long time. The printing company was commissioned in advance to produce posters for this world event. For example, posters had to be printed for both candidates because the public should be informed as quickly as possible. On the day of the successful launch (August 26, 1978), posters about Jähn were issued immediately.
In addition, the trained printer Jähn received a bilingual congratulations on the successful flight and a symbolic couch letter from the DKB at the big cosmonaut ball in the Palace of the Republic . He sent the following handwritten greeting to the employees of the printing combine:

"A warm greeting to my former colleagues from the respected printing trade of the Berlin Printing Combine."

- Communications , No. 6, October 1978, inside.

The posters about Eberhard Köllner were grossed .

The Druckkombinat produced, as already mentioned, paper napkins and Tropfdeckchen (paper coasters). These products often had edges in the form of points that were punched out by means of a machine . Only the small pieces of paper mostly got stuck in the leaves. In order to be able to sell a decent product, assistants knocked out the serviettes or doilies, which had been processed in layers of 20, by hand after punching.

Logos

With the change of the respective company name, a new company logo always had to be created. In 1967, an in-house design competition was held for the printing combine, in which 22 people took part with a total of 85 designs. The winner was the professional graphic artist Rohfleisch, whose "Berlin Bear in D before the K" was awarded 100  MDN and was henceforth used for letterheads and all other printed matter.

The small gallery shows the different situations:

  • Graphic workshops Berlin (1962)

  • Druckkombinat Berlin (1979–1990)

  • Druckhaus Mitte GmbH (only 1991/1992)

After the final privatization in 1993, a new logo was created with the company name written out in front of three colored rings.

Culture

In 1976, in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Druckkombinat , the 1st company festival took place between October and December. These expanded the company sports festivals introduced in 1956 to include knowledge tests, a hobby show, a solidarity bazaar , cultural events and culinary offers. Before that, the company sports group Radwandergruppe DKB had already been founded, which organized mainly bicycle trips with a large number of participants. From then on, the company festival was held every two years.

Coal festivals have been held for many years in connection with the in-company training of printing specialists . There were also regular company outings, for example in 1976 to the Wandlitz local history museum .

Sponsorship contracts were agreed with other companies or school classes, which primarily promoted cultural life. Mutual exchanges of visits took place with trade union organizations from other European countries such as Poland, Belgium and Hungary, and friendship agreements were also concluded.

Honoring people and company facilities (selection)

  • July 1949: The printers Walter Stibitz and Emil Wohlgemut from Werk I were the first to receive the Activist award for their commitment to the publication of the Daily Rundschau .
  • August 1962: Willi Bredel , the then President of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR , sent Werk III a letter of thanks "for the timely and high-quality production of important publications".
  • August 1962: Certificate of approval from the Central Council of the FDJ for the printed matter for the World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki
  • October 1967: The plant manager of the graphic workshops, Heinz Worm (until 1966 economic manager), received the GDR Medal of Merit .
  • October 1972: Manfred Wieninger became an Honored Activist .
  • August 1973: The express department received the Arthur Becker medal in gold, the plant manager Heinz Worm and the production manager Jochen Tietz received this medal in silver for their activities at the 10th World Festival in Berlin.
  • February 1, 1974: Alfred Röpel, employee of the express department, became an Honored Activist .
  • October 7, 1974: Johannes Frenzel, party secretary of the Printing Combine, received the GDR Medal of Merit .
  • May 1, 1976: Marie Pultz, porter, was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
  • June 1979: The typesetter Klaus Witte was awarded the Hermann Duncker Medal .
  • October 1976: Hermann Kloock, chief accountant, became an Honored Activist .
  • May 1, 1977: Gerhardt Kreft, Head of General Administration, received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. Other employees became Honored Activists .
  • 1978, 1979: other employees of the printing combine received the GDR Medal of Merit (Gerhard Hennig, Gerhard Kühn, Irene Walter).
    The work collective typesetting , book printing , postpress , dispatch and offset printing form production were awarded the     Arthur Becker medal in silver by the Central Council of the FDJ , the offset production control department and two employees received this bronze for “excellent performance in preparation and during the national Youth festivals ”.
  • 1980: During a ceremony in the official seat of the State Council , the printing combine received the banner of work .
  • 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in gold for the company collective
  • 1987, October: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze for company director Jürgen Fötsch
  • May 1, 1988: Christa Schulz, bookbindery, received the Labor banner , level II
  • 1988: Rolf Runkel, employee in operational safety, became an Honored Activist

Literature and images

  • Andreas Halen, Uwe Greve: From the Mosse publishing house to the Mosse center . Media Holding GmbH & Co, Media KG, Berlin, 1995.
  • The history of our company is part of the history of our republic . 16-page detailed chronicle, August 1979. Compiled by the history commission , which was founded especially for this purpose in 1977. Bears the note “BmG 046/79 for internal information only”.
  • General photo collection and photo collection Günter Schneider on buildings, facade details and streets in connection with the printing combine, October 1966 and May 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c image brochure Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte , 1993.
  2. ↑ Zentrag dismissal as plant manager of Heinz Worm for health reasons, February 28, 1982.
  3. ↑ a b c Jörg Niendorf: Words like cast in lead . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 23, 2018, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Halen, Greve, p. 28.
  5. ↑ DK-Mitteilungen No. 4, October 1989; P. 2, thoughts by Jürgen Fötsch.
  6. ↑ The history of our company ... , p. 2.
  7. ↑ Chronicle, p. 4.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f The history of our company ... , p. 8.
  9. ↑ a b c DK-Mitteilungen, December 1968: Great events cast their shadows ahead ... , p. 2.
  10. ↑ C Rep. 100-05 - Magistrate of Berlin, Office of the Magistrate, serial no. 1398. (4th) Magistrate meetings from February 13, 1953 to May 28, 1990: Change in the subordination of VEB Druckkombinat ; Documents in the Berlin State Archives.
  11. ↑ a b c The history of our company ... , p. 9.
  12. ↑ a b C Rep. 110-01 - Magistrate of Berlin, chief architect - Office for Urban Development, 1970–1984. Documents in the Berlin State Archives.
  13. ↑ a b c d The history of our company ... , p. 10.
  14. ↑ C Rep. 131-05 - Council of the Berlin-Mitte district, department planning, material and work / district planning committee. Documents in the Berlin State Archives.
  15. ↑ . C Rep 110-01 - Magistrate of Berlin, Chief Architect - Office of Urban Development, 1979-1980; Serial no. 4008. Documents in the Berlin State Archives.
  16. ↑ website of Maschinenfabrik Hobema , accessed on 25 July 2018th
  17. ↑ napkin and packaging machine Hobema / Senning at www.bohemia-grafia.de , accessed on July 25, 2918.)
  18. ↑ DK-Mitteilungen No. 4, October 1989; Pp. 4, 5, 7.
  19. ↑ Advertisement from 1992 in a (unspecified) Berlin daily newspaper: Druckhaus Mitte GmbH .
  20. ↑ Monday interview with a printer: driver's licenses as invitations . In: taz , July 16, 2012.
  21. ↑ a b Halen, Greve: p. 30.
  22. ↑ Beatriz Rodriguez: When the newspaper cost ten pfennigs . In: Neues Deutschland , June 13, 2007.
  23. ↑ Brief description - Südkreuz location of the DBM , accessed on April 1, 2018.
  24. ↑ To the InAp on the DBM homepage, accessed on July 27, 2018.
  25. ↑ Documents in the Deutsche Rentenversicherung on the printing combine , accessed on April 2, 2018.
  26. ↑ Typed representation with the note 1967 ; with user: 44 penguins present.
  27. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an Typewritten entry in the chronicle; Status 1980.
  28. ↑ Druckkombinat Berlin in the telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic. Edition 1989 .
  29. ^ R. Barnick, Art Print Institute, Markusstr. 50 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, I, p. 93.
  30. ^ Residents of Berlin: Kramer, book printing . In: Berlin address book , 1943, I.
  31. ^ Gutenberg printing works . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, I, p. 525.
  32. ^ Berlin telephone directory 1953: Neuköllner Industrie-Druckerei Basedow & Co., Sonnenallee 241-257
  33. ↑ communications from GW Berlin, August 1966: VEB Stegrasieb is united with us , p. 2.
  34. ^ DK-Mitteilungen February 1976, p. 5: News from the printing combine .
  35. ↑ C Rep. 767 (previous) - VEB Druckkombinat Berlin; Registry signatures THA 5858-4.98.3 and THA 5858-4.98.4; Documents in the Landesarchiv Berlin, years 1975–1980: To take over advertising printing, small offset, graph copy, repro offset, art print, Lichtenberger Strasse Barnick and Zur Köpenicker Strasse, advertising print, art print, small offset, Berpaflex, repro offset .
  36. ↑ Document of the former planning manager, with user: 44Penguins available.
  37. ↑ a b c The history of our company ... , p. 5.
  38. ↑ a b The history of our company ... , p. 14.
  39. ↑ DK announcements from December 1989: On work in the company , four-page position paper with information on the status of plan fulfillment, BGL resolution and order to two SED delegates to an Extraordinary SED District Delegate Conference in Berlin-Mitte .
  40. ^ Poster for the day when apprenticeships began on September 1, 1952
  41. ^ Poster for the appearance of the Artistic Ensemble of the National Security of Czechoslovakia in the Leipzig Exhibition Center .
  42. ↑ Records of the VEB Graphische Werkstätten Berlin on discogs ; here with the musical fairy tale Hansel and Gretel
  43. ↑ Example of a poster: Day of the German Railway Worker June 14, 1959; Clear the way for the victory of socialism . Theater poster The Good Man of Sezuan , 1957
  44. ^ Numismatic notebooks
  45. ↑ DK-Mitteilungen, July 1971: A start is made , p. 3.
  46. ^ Illustration of the poster for the exhibition Art from Romania , accessed on July 27, 2018.
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