Hans Wasserkampf & Co.

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"The Unforgettable" and the " Birthplace of Queen Luise of Prussia ";
Multicolored lithographed "Greetings from ..." - Map of Otto Pilzecker, Print by Hans Water Fight & Co. in Hanover; handwritten in Berlin, dated 1901
"Greetings from the Bodetal " with a vedute of Thale in Saxony-Anhalt , around 1898

Hans Water Fight & Co. was a lithographic art - institution as well as a stone, books and light printing . The company, based in Hannover was especially dedicated to the printing of luxury - papers , labels and posters , but in addition also maintained a cardboard -Fabrik and a publisher .

history

The family name and with it the namesake for the later Wasserkampf company appeared for the first time in the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1880. This was recorded by Hans Wasserkampf with the job title lithographer, initially with residence on the second floor of the apartment building Warmbüchenkamp 8 . Seven years later he was still only working as a lithographer, but now resident in the Bel Etage at - then - Marschnerstrasse 53 . In 1887, the accountant and authorized signatory of the Jewish banking house A. Molling, Gustav Löding (1853–1908 / 09), together with Wasserkampf founded the joint enterprise “Hans Wasserkampf und Comp. 9, north of downtown Striehlstraße 9 . Commanditgesellschaft ". The company was the sole tenant of the building, the landlord being the businessman Jakob Salomon, who lives at Ohestrasse 2 .

In 1890 the A. Molling bank bought itself directly into the company Hans Wasserkampf & Comp. KG, although Adolf Molling (1830–1894), who was born in Hildesheim, started his own printing company A. Molling & Comp. at Schneiderberg near the Technical University.

Also in 1890, the company, which had previously only acted as a printing, luxury paper and cardboard company, sent a copy of the office building by Hans Wasserkampf & Comp, which has been preserved in the German National Library to this day . provided - business circular, in which the sale of a publishing house of oil print pictures by the Berlin-based company E. Hoppe & Co. to Hans Wasserkampf & Comp. was informed. On December 5, 1890, the entry was made in the commercial register in Molling, Wasserkampf & Comp., Limited partnership .

Soon afterwards, the business partners Molling and Wasserkampf must have separated again, especially since the Hanover address book for 1896 to which now only as the company Hans Wasserkampf , Stein-, Buch- u. Collotype printing company registered the rear building at Hainhölzer Strasse 40 as a new address . In addition to the eponymous manufacturer Hans Wasserkampf, the owner was now also the businessman Wilhelm Hapke .

"Greetings from" card number 5 from the series Royal Hanoverian Army 1866 , in the background the Ernst-August-Palais ; Print: Water Fight & Robby; Publisher: Volksschriften-Verein zu Hannover , around 1900

By 1901 at the latest, the company had changed its name to Wasserkampf & Robby and cooperated as a printing company with the publishing house of the Volksschriften-Verein zu Hannover , e.g. for 12 chromolithographed postcards related to the Kingdom of Hanover , elaborately bound in silk under the title Memories of the Royal Hanoverian Army 1866 . During a hearing in the United States in front of the House of Representatives , the lithographer, drawing artist and engraver August Falk stated, among other things, that between 1903 and 1905 he had earned 25 marks a week for a 48-hour week at Wasserkampf and Robby as an employee and in During these years the company processed orders from numerous other companies from Germany.

Other works (selection)

Fonts:

  • Isaak Hirsch : Anna Pelzer , Roman, Hannover: H. Wasserkampf u. Co., [1890]
  • Wilhelm Hipmeier: About 1-p-Tolyl-3-methylpyrazolone and its derivatives , Hannover: Wasserkampf, 1894
  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Hanover Local Association for book printers and type cutters. April 29 and 30, 1899 , Hanover: Local Association, [1899]
  • Gerhard Dor: From apprentice to master. A warning to parents, masters and guilds , Hanover: Wasserkampf & Robby, 1903
  • Gustav Kastropp : Fantasies and fairy tales , Hannover: Wasserkampf, 1891
  • Gustav Kastropp: Agamemnon. Tragedy in three acts , printed as a manuscript for the stages, Hanover: Verlag von Hans Wasserkampf & Comp. Commandit Society, [1891]; Digitized by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  • Guide through Goslar am Harz and the surrounding area. Memory of the Hotel zum Rosengarten, Goslar am Harz , 24 partly illustrated pages with a plan, Hanover: Wasserkampf, 1898
  • Resin beads. As a friendly reminder of the Hôtel and Pension Heidelberg Blankenburg aH , 37 sheets exclusively with illustrations of views of Goslar, Okerthal, Wildemann, Wiesenbecker Teich, Bad Grund, Radauwasserfall, Ilsenburg, Ilsestein, Ilsefalls, Schierke, Oderteich, Brocken, Wernigerode, Regenstein, Blankenburg , Hermannshöhle, Bodetal, Gernrode, Suderode, Alexisbad, Mägdesprung, Ballenstedt, Falkenstein Castle, Josephskreuz,
  • Labor regulations for the Hannoversche Actien-Gummiwaaren-Fabrik in Linden before Hanover , [Linden before Hanover]: [Hannoversche Actien-Gummiwaaren-Fabrik], 1903–1908, Hanover: Wasserkampf & Robby

Posters:

  • Excelsior bester Pneumatic , Hannoversche Gummi-Kamm Co. AG, Hanover-Limmer, multicolored lithograph 84.5 × 62 cm; Digitized from the general catalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
  • Excelsior Pneumatic , Hannoversche Gummi-Kamm-Co., Act. Ges. Hannover; Digitized

See also

Web links

Commons : Hans Wasserkampf & Co.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Wasserkampf & Robby  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden (ABH) for the year 1888, section I, alphabetical directory of the authorities etc., of the residents and trading companies , p. 771; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Compare ABH for 1879 ... residents and trading companies , p. 633 with the ABH for 1880, ... residents and trading companies , p. 655
  4. ^ ABH for 1887, Dept. I, ... residents and trading companies , p. 748
  5. ↑ Leipzig Yearbook on Book History . A publication by the Leipzig University Library in collaboration with the Leipzig Working Group on the History of the Book Industry , Volume 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991, pp. 204, 253 (in English); Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Ebda, Street and House Directory , p. 308
  7. ↑ Thomas Krakauer: Family Portrait. History and Genealogy of the Gottschalk, Molling and Benjamin families from Hannover, Germany (in English), Durham NC: T. Krakauer, 1995, p. 83; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ precious Sheridan Quantz: The Molling and Gottschalk families = The families Molling and Gottschalk in: Molling's heirs. Memoirs of Hal and Freddy Godshaw from Hannover = Molling's heirs. Memories of Hal and Freddy Godshaw from Hanover (= writings on the culture of remembrance in Hanover , vol. 6), in English and German, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-6205-7 , pp. 14-29 , here: p. 17
  9. ^ ABH for 1896, Department I, Alphabetical Directory of Authorities, etc. ..., p. 970
  10. ^ Lutz Tittel: Paintings and graphics from the Helms Museum. Exhibition of the Helms-Museum from October 12, 1981 to November 6, 1981 in the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (= publication of the Helms-Museum ; No. 38), Hamburg: Helms-Museum, 1981, p. 21; Preview over google books
  11. ↑ Paperback of the auction prices of old books . A systematic compilation of the results from the book auctions in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland , Aachen: Radtke, vol. 23. 1997, p. 326; Preview over google books
  12. ↑ United States Congressional serial set , Issue 5556, 1909, p. 8292; Preview over google books

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