Georg Jacob Decker the Younger

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Georg Jacob Decker the Younger (born November 9, 1765 in Berlin ; † August 26, 1819 ) was a printer and publisher in Prussia . He was the son of the eponymous founder of the Prussian royal house's secret book printing company , Georg Jacob Decker .

After Georg Jacob Decker the Elder handed over the company to his son in 1792 and died in 1799, the latter expanded the business again. Among other things, he founded the Hofbuchdruckerei in Posen in 1794 , took over the Hofbuchdruckerei in Potsdam , which was then run by Michael Gottlieb Sommer in 1809 , and introduced new printing techniques such as stereotype and Stanhope press .

Georg Jacob Decker the Younger died in Berlin in 1819 at the age of 53. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in front of the Potsdamer Tor . His father had also been buried there twenty years earlier. Both graves were lost when the cemetery was leveled in 1922 at the latest.

After his death, his two sons Karl Gustav Decker and Rudolf Ludwig Decker continued to run the company.

For the company's centenary in 1863, Rudolf Ludwig Decker was awarded the hereditary title of nobility. After his death in 1877, the printing house was the Reich bought and on the initiative of the then General Postmaster Heinrich von Stephan on April 1 in 1879 by merger with the established in 1852 Royal Prussian State Printing to German Reichsdruckerei combines, from after the Second World War, today's Bundesdruckerei originated.

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  1. ↑ 1846 sold to Karl Sigismund Krämer; after further changes of ownership, today the Steffen print shop.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 152–153.
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SURNAME Decker, Georg Jacob the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decker, Georg Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Book printer in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1819