Friedrich Astholz junior

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Postcard number “18607”, “Die Insel, Hannover” from Stengel & Co. , “Sales F. Astholz jun, Hannover”; around 1900

Friedrich Astholz junior (also: F. Astholz junior ) was a German publisher of consecutively numbered postcards as well as a photographer based in Hanover at the beginning of the 20th century .

Life

A clothes maker “Friedr. Astholz "is already recorded in 1849 in the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover under the address" Insel 1 ".

When the publishing house Stengel & Co. published its collotype postcard number “18607” with the title “Die Insel, Hannover” around 1900 , it was “F. Astholz jun ”, who, according to the print on the card, was responsible for distributing this view on site. At around the same time, Friedrich Astholz junior began to publish his own picture postcards , which, for example, still had his name printed on the picture in 1902, as well as the year of the photo or the date of publication. Astholz reproduced the same motif in various image details and editions , later also with the publisher's information on the back of the postcards, which he published in black and white and also colored . Just like Stengel & Co., Astholz numbered the postcards he had published consecutively, as for example the card number “725” with a view of Podbielskistraße in Hanover shows.

On some postcards, Friedrich Astholz junior indicated himself with the additional remark “Phot. und Verlag ”as the author of the underlying photography.

However, Astholz did not limit himself to his own photographs or the laying of postcards with motifs exclusively from his hometown: The Leipzig Museum of City History is in possession of a view of the city of Leipzig taken by the photographer Julius Berndt , which Astholz then published as a colored postcard with the city's coat of arms.

Historical picture documentation

For todays local historian and traditions - researchers the tinted postcard offering titled " Wedding in Schaumburg-Lippe - The bride car " a relevant object for a historical pictorial documentation .

One of the postcards with the number "1403" with views of the ruins of Hohnstein and the logistics and pension house of A. Staecker in Neustadt / Harz ( Thuringia ) was provided with Absendestempel the post in 1921 and gives a first indication of the temporal limitation of the duration of the publishing activity by Friedrich Astholz junior.

F. Branch wood

Initial numbering

Unnumbered postcard on the occasion of the inauguration of the New Linden City Hall in Linden on October 5, 1899
Aerial photograph ( balloon photo ) by Julius Precht with a view of the Waterlooplatz , the Hanover Police Department and the later Schützenplatz ;
Postcard no.K 29 by F. Astholz junior, around 1910

With the publisher's information “F. Astholz, Hanover "and the" No. 4 ”there is a postcard with the title“ Hannover. Skyscraper with Planetarium ”, on which the Anzeiger skyscraper and neighboring buildings are shown. The card with an obviously newly created, consecutive publisher (and order) number was not collotype, like older editions by Friedrich Astholz junior , but as a direct photo print with a surrounding white border on the image side.

From the time after the construction of the Maschsee , which was inaugurated in 1936, there is a map with a view of the completed lake, which also has the information “F. Astholz, Hanover ”as well as the“ No. 5 ".

Further research

Whether it is “F. Astholz ”is about a successor to Friedrich Astholz juniors or one and the same person who, on the occasion of a new reproduction technique, carried out an internal new numbering of the publisher and only dropped the addition junior at an advanced age , must be shown by further research. At least Zeno.org assumes a public domain for both cases .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Astholz junior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see Hanover list: Podbielskistraße with trams on postcard-lexikon.de
  2. ^ Association for computer genealogy : Historical address books: Friedr. Astholz Hannover in the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hannover , p. 61
  3. ↑ see print on the bottom right of this postcard number "18607" from Stengel & Co.
  4. ↑ see for example this map of Lindener Berg from the collection of Andreas-Andrew Bornemann on his page Postkarten-archiv.de
  5. ↑ Compare the views of Lindener Berg in the collection of Andreas-Andrew Bornemann on www.postkarten-archiv.de
  6. ↑ see this map
  7. ^ Postcard The Bridal Carriage
  8. ↑ Neustadt, Harz, Thuringia: Hohnstein ruins on Zeno.org
  9. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Maschsee. 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. 430ff.
  10. ↑ see the files from Zeno.org (section Weblinks )
personal data
SURNAME Astholz, Friedrich junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Astholz, Friedrich jun .; Astholz, F. jun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher of postcards
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century