Georg Hartmann (manufacturer)

Georg Hartmann (born July 13, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 27, 1954 there ) was a German entrepreneur . The trained businessman was, among other things, senior boss of the Bauersche Gießerei , a type foundry in Frankfurt, and chairman of the Free German Hochstift .

life and work

In addition to the Bauer foundry he bought in 1898, he founded another industrial company in Frankfurt in 1919 in a completely different branch, the "EMDA" ("Electro-Medico-Dental-Apparatus"), a special factory for electro-medical and dental apparatus including dentist's chairs, which later had its headquarters at Hanauer Landstrasse 139–145, or finally at Kaiserleistrasse 19. This company no longer exists today either.

As typecaster he moved a number of significant fonts , so the mid-1920s, the Futura by Paul Renner . As part of the extensive bibliophile book program of the Bauer foundry, he commissioned Max Beckmann, who was in exile in Amsterdam, with illustrations for the Apocalypse in 1941 and with drawings for Goethe's Faust II in 1943 .

Because of his services to the reconstruction of the Goethe House , he was granted honorary citizenship of his hometown Frankfurt am Main in 1950.

His book Alt-Frankfurt , written together with the historian Fried Lübbecke . A legacy documents in over 270 black and white photographs from the 1930s and early 1940s the condition of Frankfurt's old town before it was destroyed by the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . Some of the photographs are from Alfred Ehrhardt .

Honors

• 1948: Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main
• 1949: Honorary Senator of the University of Frankfurt am Main
• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary citizen of the Spessart community Burgjoss and patron of the street name there

See also

• List of honorary citizens of Frankfurt am Main

literature

• Andreas Hansert: Georg Hartmann (1870–1954). Biography of a Frankfurt type caster, bibliophile and art patron. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78322-0 .
• Franz Lerner:  Hartmann, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 742 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Article Georg Hartmann , in: Frankfurt 1933-1945
• BUNDESARCHIV - Central database for estates In: '' nachlassdatenbank.de ''. Retrieved on September 2, 2016 (information about Georg Hartmann's estate at the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt)
• Hartmann, Johann Georg. Hessian biography. (As of January 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Hartmann, Georg in the Frankfurt Personal Lexicon