Grütter (company)

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Grütter is the name of a printing company founded in Hanover in the 19th century and a later affiliated publishing house , which were taken over by Schlüterschen Verlagsgesellschaft at the beginning of the 21st century .

history

The company was originally founded on April 1, 1893 by Josef Grütter († January 5, 1898) as a book printing company in what was then the Bahnhofstrasse 10 building . Only five years later, in 1898, the company relocated to the larger, company-owned properties at Köblingerstraße 49 and Marktstraße 12 in the old town of Hanover in order to manufacture printed matter for trade, industry and private individuals. The company, which had primarily specialized in printing forms for the railways and the post office , soon became known throughout Germany for the in-house printed Grütter's Postpaket shipping blocks . The latter was "after the four-man system to write through " with a DRGM protected number.

When the company founder died at the time of the First World War , his widow Christine , née Köneke, continued as the sole owner of the company under the word and image brand JB in the form of a stamp with the help of her two authorized signatories Leopold Franke and Louis Klage .

At the time of National Socialism , the printing works were destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War, but a “modest restart” was later started on Ferdinandstrasse . After moving to Kleine Düwelstraße, the company moved to a new building in Empelde in 1965 .

In 1978 Grütter founded his own publishing house with the Hanoverian “ lifestyle magazine” Nobilis , but also printed an elaborate art catalog around 1981 for the then art museum with the Sprengel collection for the exhibition of works by the painter Marc Chagall . The product portfolio of the printing company and the publishing house had been expanded more and more . Under the motto “Everything from a single source”, labels were soon printed, brochures , calendars , annual reports , books and, in the company's own publishing house, most recently 14 magazine titles, including the Hannover Journal , for example . Typesetting , production of color images , printing and further processing as well as dispatch were carried out “always with the latest machines”, which required correspondingly high investments . The high procurement costs were then one of the difficulties, to which the declining orders from 2001 added. In 2004, Grütter finally had to file for bankruptcy, which also carried away the affiliated publisher. Both the printing company and the publisher, which according to the 2014 address book of the German book trade last operated as Druckerei Grütter GmbH & Co. KG , were subsequently taken over by Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, including the Nobilis magazine .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Josef Grütter. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the participation of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 146
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Grütter, Druckerei u. Publishing company. 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. 239.
  3. ^ Molkerei-Zeitung, Volume 24, Heinrichs Verlag, 1910, p. 831; preview
  4. ↑ Proof
  5. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library


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