Friedrich Pustet (publisher, 1798)

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Friedrich Pustet (born February 25, 1798 in Hals (Passau) , † March 6, 1882 in Munich ) was a German publisher and founder of Friedrich Pustet KG .

Life

Friedrich Pustet, son of the treasurer and bookbinder Anton Pustet, completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in 1809 and took over the business in Passau after the early death of his father. In 1826 he moved his engagement from Passau to Regensburg. There he built a bookstore, later he also worked as a publisher in the field of regional, historical, scientific and fictional literature.

In 1833 he became the owner of a spacious property on Gesandersstrasse in Regensburg, where the main business of Bücher Pustet is still located today . Today's multi-storey commercial building with an inner courtyard was not built until 1957 in the post-war style after several medieval and baroque buildings and houses were demolished.

With the purchase of a high-speed press in 1833, Friedrich Pustet laid the foundation for the Pustet printing company. In 1836 he began the industrial manufacture of paper in the form of continuous paper webs in the towns of Laaber and Alling west of Regensburg based on models in England . At both locations, Schwarze Laber supplied energy to drive the machines that were needed to produce wood pulp and pulp . Later, steam engines could also be operated with the brown coal deposits found near Alling. To greet King Maximilian II , who paid a visit to the facilities in 1855, two strips of white and blue colored paper were printed. After the factories were even connected to Regensburg with the Sinzing – Alling railway in 1875 , Friedrich Pustet had completed the groundbreaking development of the paper industry.

A Latin missal for worship in the Catholic Church, published in 1846, laid the foundation for the company's supra-regional expansion and fame. With this altar missal, the publishing house began specializing in liturgical works. Together with Karl Proske , the series “Musica divina” was created, an edition of polyphonic musical works. In 1848 Pustet was involved in founding the Regensburger Morgenblatt .

After mayor Gottlieb von Thon-Dittmer in Regensburg in the famine year 1846/47 in Vormärz there had been enormous increases in food prices, Pustet was also involved in the efforts of the Catholic-conservative association movement of the time to found workers' support associations. So in March 1849, with the participation of other print shop owners such as Georg Joseph Manz, the “Gutenbergverein” was founded, which was supposed to support the Regensburg book printer in emergencies. From the association a support fund for sick, traveling and disabled book printers emerged in 1850, from which the Buchdrucker-support fund, which existed until the First World War. V emerged.

In 1854 Pustet acquired the JE v. Seidel'sche bookstore in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. In 1860 he handed over the Regensburg company Pustet with its publishing house, technical operation and paper mill to his sons Friedrich (1831–1902), Karl (1839–1910) and Clemens (1833–1898). He sold the bookstore in Sulzbach in 1864 and took over the royal Central-Schulbuch-Verlag in Munich in 1864 ; He headed this until 1874.

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  1. ^ Church book Passau-Hals 3 1743-1834, page 178, [1]
  2. ^ A b Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 352, 353 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Druckerei und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 70 .
personal data
SURNAME Blow, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Neck (Passau)
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1882
Place of death Munich