Gustav Boldt

Carl Gustav Wilhelm Boldt (born April 14, 1853 in Rostock , † October 31, 1939 in Alt Steinhorst ) was a German printer and publisher .

Life

Gustav Boldt was born as the son of the Rostock printer and publisher Carl Boldt (1811–1878). He completed an apprenticeship as a printer in his father's company before going on a hike and continuing his education in Braunschweig, Vienna, Zurich and Stuttgart. After the father died in November 1878, Gustav and his brother Emil Boldt (1845–1918) took over the printing house. The brothers succeeded in developing the Carl Boldt'sche Hofbuchdruckerei from a small craft business into a prosperous medium-sized company. In 1882 Gustav Boldt married Wilhelmine Fick (1851-1916), with whom he had three children. After Emil Boldt withdrew from the business for health reasons in 1891, Gustav Boldt managed the company alone. In 1887 they moved into a new office building on Rostock's Blücherplatz . Mecklenburg's first rotary printing press went into operation here in 1893 . Around 1900 there were around 100 employees in the publishing and printing house. In 1909 his son Karl Boldt became an authorized signatory and later co-owner. In 1924, the company, which was economically troubled after the First World War , was saved by transforming it into a GmbH . Gustav Boldt retired at the beginning of the 1930s, died in Alt Steinhorst near Marlow in 1939 and was buried in the Rostock family grave.

Products

An important product of the publisher was the Allgemeine Rostocker Anzeiger , which had been published as a Sunday paper since 1881 . The sheet, which has been published under the title Rostocker Anzeiger since 1884 , initially had a print run of 5,000 copies; in 1914 it was 55,000. After Gustav Boldt bought the Adlers Erben printing works in 1902 , the Rostocker Zeitung was published in the Boldtschen Hofdruckerei until 1921 . The Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung was printed from 1905 to 1923 .

Memberships and honors

Gustav Boldt was a member of the Mecklenburg Heimatbund and the Rostock Antiquities Association. In 1900 he was given the title of Secret Commissioner and in 1914 the title of Secret Commerce Council.

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1189 .

Web links

Literature about Gustav Boldt in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Antje Krause, Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery. Notable tombs. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-000-36945-2 , p. 23.

personal data
SURNAME	Boldt, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boldt, Carl Gustav Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1939
Place of death	Alt Steinhorst

[1] Antje Krause, Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery. Notable tombs. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-000-36945-2 , p. 23.