Gustav Bohadti

Gustav Bohadti (born July 15, 1883 in Vienna , † September 21, 1969 in Berlin-Rudow ) was an Austrian textbook author , typesetter , printer and factor .

Life

Bohadti trained as a typesetter and printer in Vienna. He wandered through Switzerland, Belgium and Germany and finally stopped in Königs Wusterhausen , where he met his future wife. In Königs Wusterhausen he worked in the Walther printing works, where the production of the local newspaper was one of his most important activities. As a Swiss sword, Bohadti was a manager and trained the typesetting apprentices. Three of these "black art" apprentices came from the German colonies of Togo , Cameroon and East Africa at the time .

In 1906 Gustav and Anna Bohadti married and had a daughter. In 1912 the family moved to Berlin, where Bohadti initially carried out punching work at the Emil Gursch type foundry. Because he fell ill with tuberculosis , he was not required to do military service, and so he was spared the war in the pit from 1914 to 1919. In March 1915, Gustav Bohadti moved to the company Berthold AG , a brass line factory and type foundry in Berlin, where he began as a typesetter. In 1926 he succeeded Hermann Hofmann, who had headed the Berthold printing works since 1895. In 1928 he completed the book "The Type Founder". This specialist book was started by Hermann Hoffmann, who died in 1926. The latter was the designer of the “Block” font family. From 1932 Bohadti was the head of order processing in sales. He was an early member of the Berliner Typografische Gesellschaft (BTG), which he helped to re-establish in 1945 and of which he later became an honorary member. In the same year he was also involved in the re-establishment of the Berlin Factor Association, later became its President and, in the 1950s, Honorary President of the German Factor Association and the European Factor Union. The factor associations were smashed by the Nazis in 1933. He was a consultant in the DIN standards committee for the graphic industry (NAGRA).

Gustav Bohadti was the author of various specialist books. 1954 appeared "Die Buchdruckletter - A manual for the type foundry and book printing industry" (German publishing house of Ullstein AG). An excerpt from this was published in 1968 with the title "Type Matrices" by Paul Hayden Duensing's Private Press and Typefoundry in the USA.

He dedicated three works to the German die cutter Justus Erich Walbaum and the fonts he created.

• From Romain du Roi to the writings of Walbaum - A study of scripts by Philippe Grandjean, Fournier , Didot , Bodoni and Walbaum (Berthold, Berlin and Stuttgart 1957)
• The Walbaum Writings and its Predecessors - A Scripture Study (Berthold, Berlin, Stuttgart 1960)
• Justus Erich Walbaum - A picture of the life of the engraver , die cutter and type caster (State Institute for Graphic Printing and Advertising, Berlin 1964).

The fonts Walbaum Standard and Walbaum Buch, later designed by Berthold's artistic director Günter Gerhard Lange , are among the best-known and most successful fonts of the Berthold company.

In 1958 his "Berthold Vademecum for the graphic industry" was published

Bohadti died shortly after starting to type his last work “Bertuch” and a few weeks after his 86th birthday.

Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch , fellow youth and age of those great men who linked Weimar's name to the highest fame of German literature (Berthold 1968, 1969 and 1970) was completed by his grandson Werner Franke. Bohadti retained Austrian citizenship all his life, especially again after 1945.

literature

• Resume. Type manuscript from January 26, 1971 in the estate of Günter Gerhard Lange , Munich.
• President of the Factors . In: Tagesspiegel , June 17, 1960.
• Franz Rutzen: 75 years of the Berlin Typographical Society. Berlin Typographic Society, Berlin 1954.
• Schaar: Fifty Years of the Berlin Typographical Society, December 1879–1929. Berlin Typographic Society, Berlin 1929.
• The book trade in the capital of the Reich: 50th anniversary of the Berlin Typographical Society, Berlin, December 3, 1929, as a continuation of its club history . Berlin 1929.

Web links

• Type foundry Gursch (PDF; 42 kB)
• Hermann Hoffmann (PDF; 91 kB)
• Berlin Factor Association and German Factor Association (PDF)