Friedrich Volckmar

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Friedrich Volckmar (1799–1876)

Ludolf Franz Friedrich Volckmar (* July 7, 1799 in Soest ; † March 7, 1876 in Leipzig ) was a German entrepreneur who is considered the founder of the modern intermediate book trade .

Life

Friedrich Volckmar was born as the son of a businessman and in 1815 did an apprenticeship at the materials dealer Gottlieb Brockhaus in Dortmund . After his military service, which he served from 1819 to 1820, he worked in Leipzig for Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , Gottlieb Brockhaus's brother. In 1829 he took over the CHF Hartmann assortment and commission business with Gustav Schaarschmidt. On October 17, 1832, Friedrich Volckmar married Pauline Gersch, with whom he had their son Otto Friedrich Volckmar in 1835. In 1833 the business relationship with Schaarschmidt was dissolved; Volckmar kept the publishing house and the commission business . From then on, he specialized in commission book trade, which he refined conceptually: The company was no longer just an intermediary between publishers and product ranges, but had a supply of popular books from which they could be resold in cash to the product range bookstore. From 1840 to 1841 he was deputy to the Leipzig secretary of the German Booksellers Association and from 1851 to 1852 in the accounting committee of the Börsenverein. The real pioneer of the bar range , however, was Volckmar's nephew and later son-in-law Carl Voerster, who worked in Volckmar's company from 1843 and became a partner in 1854. In 1847 he initiated the stockpiling of the popular titles and was also responsible for the bar range bought by Louis Zander in 1861. In 1858 or 1859 Friedrich Volckmar gave up the management of his company, which his son Otto Friedrich and Carl Voerster took over.

1918 merged F. Volckmar with the wholesaler Karl Franz Koehler in Leipzig Koehler & Volckmar AG (KV).

Archives of the publisher are located in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives and form the holdings there.

Today the company operates under the name Koch, Neff and Volckmar .

Many of the Friedrich Volckmars bindings are marked with the monogram “FV” in the center of the back cover.

literature

  • Thomas Keiderling: Friedrich Volckmar (1799–1876). In: Gerald Wiemers (Ed.): Sächsische Lebensbilder. Volume 5, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 539-560.
  • Volckmar, Friedrich . In: Karl Friedrich Pfau: Biographical Lexicon of the German Book Trade of the Present. Taking into account the most outstanding representatives of the book trade of the old days and abroad. Edited from the original sources . Friedrich Pfau, Leipzig 1890, pp. 412–415 ( digitized version )
  • Karl Friedrich Pfau :  Volckmar, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 756-758.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / New York 1979, pp. 1000-1006, ISBN 3-487-06943-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Thomas Keiderling: Friedrich Volckmar (1799–1876). In: Gerald Wiemers (Ed.): Sächsische Lebensbilder. Volume 5, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, p. 540.
  2. ↑ 21065 Koehler & Volckmar, Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Volckmar, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volckmar, Ludolf Franz Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1876
Place of death Leipzig