Heinrich Julius Mäser
Heinrich Julius Mäser (born June 1, 1848 in Dresden , † January 24, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German printer and publisher .
Life
Son of the royal Saxon civil servant Johann Gottlieb Mäser (brother of Karl Gottfried Mäsers ) in Dresden. He attended the then famous community school "Zu Rat und Tat" and at the age of 14 began an apprenticeship in the Saxon court book printer of Carl Christian Meinhold & Sons. After the usual five-year apprenticeship, his years of traveling took him to Chemnitz, Stuttgart, Cologne and Hagen and then to the Styrian capital Graz . This was followed by activities in the Graz Akzidenzkünstlerbunde, as a member of the Austro-Hungarian Book Printers' Day Commission and member of the board of the Berlin Assistant Association. As a long-time friend of Richard Härtels (1835–1903, chairman of the Association of German Book Printers ), he was called to Leipzig on April 1, 1875, where he was appointed managing director of the German Book Printers' Cooperative. At that time he was already known as a commercial typesetter who broke new ground in typesetting.
Services
Opening of a book printing and publishing house in Reudnitz (Leipzig) . July 1, 1880 Expansion through the purchase of the German Buchdrucker productive cooperative. Together with Richard Härtel, publishes the “Reudnitzer Tageblatt”, the later “Vorstadtzeitung”, an official organ of Leipzig's eastern suburbs and the publication organ of the most important associations in these places. The print shop and the technical center were located at Senefelder Straße 13-17.
In January 1880 the magazine "Typografische Jahrbücher" appeared for the first time, since 1901 also in Spanish under the title "Anales Graficos". At that time it was the most popular typography magazine. Companies in the graphic industry, d. H. Type foundries, machine factories, paint factories, etc. valued the importance and used it as a publication medium.
In 1892 volunteer courses for the typographic yearbooks were created. Mäser was chairman of the school committee of the Leipzig book printing trade. Socio-politically he was very active. Among other things, he reorganized the Leipzig collective bargaining court, created a proof of work for it and tried to set up a collective bargaining organization.
In 1897, the pilot plant for book printers was founded, a state-approved higher education institution for the systematic training of young book printers. In the first 15 years, more than 500 younger and older book printers from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland, France, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, England, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria and Brazil visited this technical center. The content of the training dealt with the establishment of a company, the operational planning, the typographical design, the commercial management of a book printing company up to the operation of the drive machines for the book printing.
On Mäser's initiative, the fire insurance association of German book printers was founded, which still exists today under the name Medien-Versicherung and is based in Karlsruhe .
Mäser was chairman of the printing guild. Until 1905 he was a member of the Leipzig city administration.
The First World War caused a huge economic decline, from which Julius Mäser found a way out in the following form: In 1915 he opened free courses for wounded book printers, which developed into a real retraining service.
J. Mäser died on January 24, 1918 and his son Georg Mäser took over the management of the technical center together with Rudolf Engelhardt, the son of Albert Engelhardt.
literature
- Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Vol. 4, Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, pp. 660-661.
- A. Engelhardt: Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of Mr. Julius Mäser. Verlag Julius Mäser, Leipzig April 22, 1912, p. 7 Fig.
- Rudolf Engel-Hardt (Ed.): The stuff box 1922. Julius Mäser Verlag, Leipzig-Reudnitz 1921, OCLC 758397046 .
- A. Heller: The technical center for book printers. Festschrift. Self-published, Leipzig 1923.
- Family traditions, oral, unpublished documents
- Magazine for Germany's book printer 1903
- Leipzig City Archives: Technical Center for Book Printers, 1899–1925 Signature: Schulamt Kap. IX, No. 87, Vol. 1 and 2.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Julius Mäser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 4. Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, pp. 660-661.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mäser, Heinrich Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German printer and publisher in Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1918 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |