Eduard Hallberger
Georg Eduard Hallberger , von Hallberger from 1869 , (born March 29, 1822 in Stuttgart , † August 29, 1880 in Tutzing ) was a German publisher and bookseller .
Life
Hallberger was the son of the bookseller and publisher Ludwig Hallberger . Hallberger received his first training in his father's publishing house , which was at the center of the fiction movement in the 1830s, and later he moved to similar companies in Potsdam and Berlin . Then he went on the roll . He returned to Stuttgart during the March Revolution and founded his own publishing bookstore there in 1848, with a focus on youth and folk literature. In 1850 he brought out the youth magazine Jugend-Album , which existed until 1889.
In 1853 Hallberger founded the magazine " Illustrirte Welt ", which turned out to be a great success (up to 150,000 copies). Since this magazine opened up a larger readership from year to year, he wanted to repeat this business success. In 1858 he founded the magazine “ Über Land und Meer ” together with Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer ( publisher ) and Edmund Zoller ( editor ) . With this magazine he was able to surpass his success with the “Illustrirten Welt”. Hallberger was nowhere near as successful with his later magazines.
In addition, Hallberger founded one of the largest wood carving companies in Germany in Stuttgart, the so-called " Xylographische Anstalt Eduard Hallberger", often abbreviated as E. Hallberger XA or EHXA . For example, a large part of the around 700 wood engravings in Georg Ebers' picture books Aeggypt im Bild und Wort , published in 1879, come from Hallberger's Xylographic Institute. Egypt in pictures and words was translated into several languages, for example into English, French and Czech, so that the works from Hallberger's xylographic studio gained international fame.
Over the years, Hallberger expanded his publishing house; After the Franco-Prussian War he founded an important branch in the book city of Leipzig , and in 1873 he merged with his father's company. The multi-company established by Hallberger also included construction and coal shops, brickworks, quarries, and cement and paper mills. In Switzerland he ran his own dairy. He owned numerous buildings in Stuttgart and a castle in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg .
Hallberger was appointed secret councilor of commerce in 1869 and raised to the personal aristocracy of Württemberg. At the age of 58 he died on August 29, 1880 on his country estate in Tutzing. He found his final resting place in the Hallberger mausoleum in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart. On the Ilkahöhe near Tutzing, his daughter Gabriele Countess Landberg had a temple of honor built for her father, which was demolished in the 1970s. The publishing business with the associated branches, paper mills, etc. passed into the ownership of a stock corporation under the name Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA) in 1881 . Hallberger had expressed this wish in his will.
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family
In 1849 Hallberger married Friederike Bauzenberger, daughter of a doctor from Kirchheim / Teck, in Stuttgart. The marriage resulted in two daughters. Gabriele von Landberg-Hallberger (1850–1915) was married to the banker Heinrich Philipp von Eichborn (1844–1926) for the first time and after the divorce in 1884 married Count Carlo Landberg. Hallberger's younger daughter Helene von Reitzenstein (1853–1944) married in 1876 the Rittmeister Carl Friedrich Sigmund Felix Freiherr von Reitzenstein-Zoppaten (1848–1897), son of General Karl Bernhard von Reitzenstein . Helene von Reitzenstein had the Villa Reitzenstein , named after her husband, built from 1910 to 1913 .
Residential and commercial buildings
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The first residential and commercial building of Eduard Hallberger's father, Louis Hallberger, was Königstrasse 3 in a prime location in Stuttgart. Eduard Hallberger founded his own publishing company in 1848 and also had his place of residence and business in his father's house at Königstrasse 3, until he moved into his own building at Königstrasse 18 in 1857. In 1856 Louis Hallberger acquired the building at Marstallstrasse 2, which was next to his house, as a residential building, and he kept the house at Königstrasse 3 as the publishing house (see Louis Hallberger, residential and commercial buildings ). Eduard Hallberger bought the house on the other side of Königstrasse 1857 at the latest, Königstrasse 18, to which he relocated his apartment and his business in the rear building. In 1863 he bought the house at Königstrasse 5, between his father's house and St. Eberhard's Church, where he lived until his death. The residential and commercial buildings at Königstrasse 3, 5 and 18 were centrally located between the Königstor , the Marstall, St. Eberhard's Church , the theater and the Schlossplatz and near the old train station in Bolzstrasse.
In 1869 Eduard Hallberger created a refuge on Lake Starnberg by buying Tutzing Castle , where he also died. Hallberger's neighbor on the other side of the lake was the editor of the magazine “ Über Land und Meer ”, which was published by his publishing house and had settled in the Villa Hackländer in Leoni in 1868 .
Due to the rapid growth of the publishing house, the company headquarters at Königstrasse 18 soon became too small. In 1870 Eduard Hallberger acquired the Königsbad at Neckartor, a popular entertainment venue. In 1871 he had the architect Georg von Morlok build a new company building on a part of the large property in the still little-developed Untere Neckarstraße. The double building at Untere Neckarstrasse 121 and 123 consisted of four wings, in which all departments of the printing and publishing house could be accommodated. The publishing house was destroyed in an air raid in 1944 and rebuilt in 1958 by the architect Hans Brüllmann in the same place as the headquarters of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. In 2000 the publishing house relocated to Munich.
literature
- Max Bach : Hallberger, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 721 f.
- Felix Berner: The Hallberger publishing family. Founder of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia, Volume 15. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1983, pp. 280-315.
- Felix Berner: Louis and Eduard Hallberger: the founders of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1985. Revised reprint of #Berner 1983 , extended by numerous images.
- Willi A. Boelcke: Millionaires in Württemberg: Origin - Rise - Traditions. With the facsimile print of the yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in Württemberg with Hohenzollern by Rudolf Martin. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1997, ISBN 3-421-05110-0 , pp. 39, 87, 101, on the daughters: 38, 80–82, 121–122, 194–195, 248.
- Gert Hagelweide: Literature for the German-language press: a bibliography; from the beginnings to 1970. Volume 11: 110926-124562: Biographische Literatur F - H. Munich: Saur, 2001, p. 248.
- Hallberger, Eduard von. In: Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Volume 2. Berlin: Franz Weber, 1903, pp. 363-369, online .
- Hermann Vietzen: Hallberger, Eduard v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 539 ( digitized version ).
- Gustav Wais : Founding and development of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. The great work of Eduard Hallberger and his successors. It is impossible to imagine the history of Stuttgart as a city of publishing houses without it . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, number 217, September 20, 1958, p. 35.
- Über Land und Meer, Volume 40, Volume 80, 1898, Number 49. Edition for the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (formerly Eduard Hallberger), pdf .
- Portraits of Eduard Hallberger and the first four editors of Über Land und Meer, after p. 768.
- Supplement "For the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (formerly Eduard Hallberger) in Stuttgart", 4 pages of text and 4 plates with 120 portraits of the publisher's authors, after p. 768.
- View of the publishing house, p. 777.
- Illustrations of 4 paper mills by Eduard Hallberger, p. 780.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Regelind Heimann: Wilhelm Gentz (1822–1890), a protagonist of German oriental painting between a realistic view and poetic narrative art , printed with the kind support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8325-2590 -3 , p. 290; online through google books .
- ↑ see for example this wood engraving.
- ↑ # Boelcke 1997 .
- ↑ Stuttgart address books, #Wais 1958.1 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hallberger, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hallberger, Eduard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1880 |
| Place of death | Tutzing |