Hermann's heirs

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Hermann's Erben was a German publisher that published the Hamburg address book and the Hamburger Nachrichten .

Johann Heinrich Hermann

history

The trained merchant, printer and publisher Johann Heinrich Hermann (1750-1821) opened in 1786 at the fish market 10 in Hamburg , a Comptoir and brought in the same year his new Hamburg Addres book on the 1787 out. Hermann copied the arrangement of the merchant's almanac and listed the name, street of the office and Banco Conto alphabetically. In order to expand the range of displayed addresses beyond the purely mercantile area, the address book published annually has been continuously modified and diversified. In 1798 the Hamburg Senate granted Hermann the privilege to publish the Hamburg address book alone, and from 1789 to 1802 Hermann also printed “Altona addresses” in a separate section. The Hamburg address book was published until 1966 (after 1939 by Dumrath & Fassnacht ).

On February 29, 1792, Hermann founded a newspaper - weekly non-profit news from and for Hamburg . After the Senate had approved the publication, the sheet was produced in the publisher's own book and commercial printer. Initially, it was an advertising paper that appeared twice a week with apolitical and entertaining reports on local events and curiosities from the city and region. From 1811 the paper came out four times a week, from 1814 it became a daily newspaper. Since 1851, Hermanns Erben's newspaper has operated exclusively under the name Hamburger Nachrichten , under which it became famous as one of the most important and long-standing Hamburg newspapers.

After Hermann's death in 1822, his son-in-law Ambrosius Heinrich Hartmeyer (1786–1855) took over management of the company, which was now known as Hermann's Erben . His son, the lawyer Heinrich Emil Hartmeyer, succeeded him in 1852 . The company's headquarters were relocated from Fischmarkt 10 to Speersort 11 in 1884/1885 . In 1903 the grandson Alfred Victor Hermann Hartmeyer (1875–1965) took over the company. After the First World War, the publishing house was able to expand its secondary occupations. In addition to the publishing house for the address and telephone book and the commercial printing company, which produced non-publishing periodicals in Lohndruck, a book publisher and Seaienstverlag with ship 's yearbook were added in 1919, the industrial and commercial newspaper from 1919 to 1923 and the overseas yearbook in 1922 . The publishing house had around 500 employees, 100 to 120 in the commercial and 350 to 450 in the technical area as well as 20 permanent employees in the editorial office of Hamburger Nachrichten.

In 1934 the publishing house took over the newspapers from the Hamburg stock exchange hall . On this train, the Hamburg correspondent ceased to appear. Due to the editor of the Law of the publisher Hermann Meyer Hart was forced to withdraw from the editorial board of the Hamburg news that he had passed by then. He continued to act as a publisher, but was not allowed to interfere in editorial matters. The circulation of Hamburger Nachrichten fell from over 40,000 to around 30,000 during the Nazi era. The last issue of the paper appeared as an evening edition on February 9, 1939, a Thursday, which suggests that the discontinuation came as a surprise. With the help of the Reich Association of Address Book Publishers , which was subordinate to the Reichsschrifttumskammer , and legal proceedings, the publisher Hermann Hartmeyer, who had got into ideological conflicts with the National Socialists, was forced to sell the publisher to the Dumrath & Fassnacht group of companies, which was far below its value . The process was resumed in 1952 and ended in a settlement. Dumrath & Fassnacht remained publishers of the Hamburg address book until its end in 1966. The house at Speersort was expropriated and torn down. In its place a new “press house” was built.

Authors (selection)

  • Fritz Roßberg (ed.): Hiking suggestions from the "Hamburger Nachrichten" . 1937
  • Hamburg from a bird's eye view. Published by Hamburger Nachrichten, 1934.
  • Hinrich Fick, Albert Panning, Nicolaus Peters: Wollhandkrabbe and Elbe fishing. 1932.
  • Ernesto Tobler: Woe if ...! 1931.
  • Theodor Duesterberg : Stahlhelm policy. Speech, ed. from the National Club 1919 Hamburg, 1931.
  • Werner Bosch: Dismantling and restructuring: thoughts of leading economic politicians on financial reform. 1930.
  • Fritz Rode: The development of German shipping to Africa. Marburg, Phil. Diss., 1930
  • Friedrich Grimm: Ten years of struggle for the Rhine, a German question of fate. 1929.
  • Hans Schimank : Pictures on the history of the natural sciences in Hamburg. 1927.
  • W. Holthusen: The water supply of Hamburg. 1926
  • Heinrich Claß : Bismarck commemoration celebration on March 31, 1922. Lecture, ed. from the National Club of 1919 Hamburg, 1922.
  • Johannes Semler : My observations in South-West Africa: diary notes and conclusions. 1906

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg and its buildings - taking into account the neighboring cities of Altona and Wandsbek 1914, Volume 2, p. 537; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Exhibit of the month: The first Hamburg address book 1787 ( September 21) , blog of the Hamburg State and University Library , September 1, 2011
  3. ^ History , State and University Library Hamburg
  4. ↑ a b c d Hans Bohrmann (Ed.), Gabriele Toepser-Ziegert (Ed.): Nazi press instructions for the pre-war period Vol. 1: 1933. Saur, Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-598-10552-4 , p. 79 ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Ambrosius Heinrich Hart Meyer on the website Hamburg personalities of the Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg
  6. ^ Ulrich Hagenah: Hamburg address books , ZHG 97/2011, p. 72
  7. ^ Ulrich Hagenah: Hamburg address books , ZHG 97/2011, pp. 88–90