Hübel and Denck

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Hübel & Denck was an important bookbindery in Leipzig .

history

Published in 1908 by Hübel and Denck: Konrad Sturmhoefel : Illustrated History of the Saxon Lands and their Rulers (Volume II: Illustrated History of Albertine Saxony, 1st section: From 1500 to 1815).

The bookbinding and blanket factory Hübel & Denck was founded on April 3, 1875 by the Leipzig bookbinder Carl Friedrich Hübel and his business partner Gustav Herrmann Denck in the course of the industrialization of the bookbinding industry . It was one of the most important companies of its kind in what was then the world book metropolis, and it worked for a large number of publishing houses. In 1906 Carl Friedrich Huebel's son Felix Huebel joined the company as an authorized signatory, in 1907 his father took him on as a partner in the company. After an apprenticeship in his father's company, he completed his bookbinding training in England with Thomas Cobden-Sanderson and Douglas Cockerell . In 1906 he had translated Cockerell's book The Art Of Bookbinding , an international standard work of bookbinding, into German. From 1910 he set up a department for manual binding in addition to the large-scale machine production of publisher's covers . He engaged the art bookbinder Peter A. Demeter as workshop manager . The workshop quickly developed into one of the most respected handbinders in Germany. The industrial bindings from Hübel & Denck are often marked by embossing or printing the company lettering on the back cover, the handbands are usually stamped on the lower edge of an inner cover.

In 1930 the bookbindery merged with another large bookbindery in Leipzig, Th. Knaur, to form Knaur-Hübel & Denck. During the Second World War , the Allied air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 destroyed the entire urban infrastructure and thus a significant part of the German book industry. However, the company survived this attack largely unscathed. In addition the diary entry of the Jena publisher Niels Diederichs, son of Eugen Diederichs , from December 17, 1943:

“Yesterday I was in Leipzig to find the victims of the terrorist attack on December 4th. See the devastated city for yourself and see what our printing and bookbinding shops are doing. All hearsay reports give the wrong picture so easily, and most of them are greatly exaggerated. But here it cannot be denied: the core of Leipzig has been largely destroyed. It looks very desolate and very sad in the bookselling district. Spamer, Brandstetter and the Bibliographical Institute have been completely destroyed. Only the outer walls of the building complex are standing, ceilings and partition walls have collapsed, and the valuable large printing machines are crumpled and battered on the floor. When you see how all the workplaces are brutally smashed, your heart really hurts. The bookseller's house with its red brick building is also in ruins, only a few business rooms have been preserved in one wing; the thin iron frame of the tower hovers high in the air above the collapsed building and juts out plaintively into the cold, gray winter sky. Fortunately, our two bookbinders, Knaur-Hübel-Denck and Sperling, are essentially intact. "

Nevertheless, in the period that followed, the Knaur-Hübel-Denck facilities were so badly affected that production had to be stopped from February 1945. After the war, operations were resumed with temporarily restored machines. From 1953 the administration was first transferred to the City Council of Leipzig, then to the Deutsche Investitionsbank Leipzig . Between 1945 and 1971 the large bindery employed an average of 71 people. On March 31, 1971, the company was officially closed for reasons of profitability, and the next day the H. Sperling bindery , also a long -established Leipzig company, continued to operate under its own name.

Among the graphic artists who worked for the bookbinding business are important artistic personalities such as Heinrich Pauser , Paul Klein, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Paul Renner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General indicator for bookbinders , business news section . Year 1907, issue 30, p. 393.
  2. ↑ Douglas Cockerell / Felix Hübel (Üs.): The book cover and the care of the book. A handbook for bookbinders and librarians by Douglas Cockerell. Leipzig, successor to Hermann Seemann in 1902.
  3. ^ Charles Holmes (ed.): The Art Of The Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding. The Studio, Ltd., London, Paris, New York MCMXIV (1914).
  4. ↑ quoted from: Justus H. Ulbricht (ed.) And Meike G. Werner (author): Romanticism, Revolution and Reform. The Eugen Diederichs Verlag in the context of the epoch 1900-1949 p. 306 - ISBN 3892443440
  5. ↑ Holdings and partial holdings of the Leipzig City Archives, 2.2.16 Fa. Th. Knaur-Hübel & Denck - Fa. Knaur Großbuchbinderei 1930-1971 (0.9 running meters), FHM: ​​card index, p. 84 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed May 15, 2012).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.leipzig.de  
  6. ↑ Supplements to the monthly pages , issue 4, 3rd vol.

literature

  • Monthly pages for book covers and handbinding  : In-house magazine of the company Hübel & Denck Buchbinderwerkstätten, Leipzig 1.1924 / 25–4.1928.
  • Modern artistic hand bindings from the workshop of Hübel & Denck , Leipzig 1914.
  • Festschrift Hübel & Denck: 1875–1925 , Leipzig 1925.
  • Bernhard Harms: On the 25th anniversary of the Hübel & Denk company, Leipzig: 1875–1900. from: Journal for bookbinding . Leipzig. Born 21. 22. 1899–1900 (summary: Bernhard Harms: Practical work on the Habung des Handwerks . Pp. 267–271).

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