Julius Neumann (publisher)

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Paul Julius Neumann (born September 21, 1844 in Berlin ; † May 30, 1928 in Neudamm ) was a royal Prussian court printer, publisher ( Verlag J. Neumann ), publisher and book printer owner.

Julius Neumann

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Neumann attended school in Berlin and started apprenticeship in a printing company on August 16, 1859 at the age of 15. Despite his rapid career advancement and appointment to the royal Prussian court printer, the then 28-year-old acquired a printing company in Neudamm on October 14, 1872, along with a weekly newspaper, an employee and an apprentice.

In 1883 Neumann took over the Deutsche Jägerzeitung . In 1884 he founded the Deutsche Forstzeitung . Numerous other magazine book series were founded by Neumann, including the 17-volume encyclopedia Hausschatz des Wissens . In 1886 the company was the first printing company to be fully equipped with electric light and whose machines were switched from steam to electricity.

In 1897 Neumann became a commercial councilor , in 1907 a secret commercial councilor .

In 1900 he founded the Neumannswalde experimental station , an agricultural, forestry and fishing research station with a ballistic shooting range. On October 1, 1904, he made his sons Walther and Johannes co-partners in the publishing house and printing company.

Among other things, Neumann founded the Institute for Hunting in Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1911 and the Society for Hunting , which, in addition to numerous private individuals, also had more than 100 associations, including the General German Hunting Protection Association (ADJV), among its members.

The city of Neudamm made Julius Neumann its honorary citizen.

By Julius Neumann's death in 1928, the Neumanns made their printing company the most modern in Europe and employed over 500 employees and workers.

aftermath

After the death or expulsion of its owners and executive employees as well as the loss of all operating resources, Neumanns Verlag ceased its existence in Neudamm in 1945. By then, around 1100 publications had appeared there.

In 1947 a previous partner, Martin Schönbrodt-Rühl (1904–1965), re-founded the publishing house as Neumann Verlag in Radebeul, Saxony . Two years later, in 1949, former employees got together in the British occupation zone and also founded a successor publishing house, the J. Neumann-Neudamm publishing house , which moved to Melsungen in 1950. Both publishers exchanged licenses and cooperated on joint editions. While the eastward founding after the reunification in the GDR in the publishing house Eugen Ulmer in Stuttgart, the westward founding still has an effect from Melsungen, where it celebrated the 125th anniversary in 1997 in the traditional succession .

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  • Obituary from the Neudammer Tageblatt of June 4, 1928.
  • Obituary from Dr. Richard Ströse, Deutsche Jägerzeitung No. 25, 17 June 1928 BD. 90; P. 449.

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