Johannes Baensch-Drugulin

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Egbert Johannes Baensch-Drugulin (born June 24, 1858 in Magdeburg , † September 10, 1945 in Leipzig ) was a Saxon court advisor , owner of a book printing and type foundry , chairman of the German Book Printing Association , chairman of the Society of Bibliophiles and a founding member of the Maximilian Society .

Life

Johannes Baensch-Drugulin is buried in the south cemetery in Leipzig
Title page designed by Ludwig Sütterlin in 1902
Drugulin signet 1911

The son of Friedrich August Emil Baensch and Caroline Wilhelmine Lisette Emilie, b. Schramm comes from a printing family. After attending the cathedral grammar school , Johannes made several training courses from 1876 to 1879, first of all he was trained as a bookseller at the court bookstore Friedrich Wagner in Braunschweig . This was followed by an apprenticeship as a book printer at the Lothringer Zeitung in Metz and an apprenticeship as a type founder at the Benjamin Krebs Successor type foundry in Frankfurt am Main .

After the unexpected death of Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin , Johannes Baensch joined the W. Drugulin office at the request of his aunt and became its managing director on July 5, 1880. In 1881 he married Drugulin's daughter Elisabeth Wilhelmine, in the following year he became a partner in his mother-in-law and from then on called himself Baensch-Drugulin.

Drugulin had already developed into one of the most respected typesetting and printing companies in Europe under the leadership of Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin . With a huge inventory of types , which was only surpassed by the state printing plants in Paris and Vienna, it specialized in printing scientific works in over 300 languages. Baensch was able to further expand the company's excellent international reputation by concentrating on typographical and book- making matters, reviving a large number of forgotten fonts from the inventory of the publishing house. From 1895 the company started using printing machines for high quality book printing. The new book art movement that started at the beginning of the 20th century, with its high demands on design and reproduction, promoted this development and made Drugulin one of the most respected large-scale printing companies. Pioneered was the publication of von Ludwig Sütterlin designed monumental work landmarks of world literature in the original writings (1902) and the printing of magazines Pan (1895 to 1900), The Island (1899-1902) and from 1897 the magazine for book lovers who from 1909 to 1914 in its own publishing house. As a result, Drugulin was also valued for its outstanding print quality and produced bibliophile editions for book-art-oriented publishers such as Insel-Verlag , Ernst Rowohlt , Eugen Diederichs , Hans von Weber , S. Fischer , Schuster & Löffler and Kurt Wolff , which were recognized throughout Europe .

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Johannes Baensch was strongly committed to improving social and professional conditions in his industry. For eleven years he was chairman of the German book printer association, set up a support fund and, as chairman of the board of trustees of the Leipzig book printer training institute, which was reopened in 1886, campaigned for better training conditions in the book printing trade.

With Baensch's collaboration, the magazine for Germany's book printers and related trades appeared from 1898 . He was chairman of the founded in 1901 Weimar society of bibliophiles , 1903 received from the University of Heidelberg , the honorary doctorate and counted 1,911 of the founding members of the Maximilian-Gesellschaft , a Bibliografenvereinigung to promote the book art and science. From 1906 his son Wilhelm joined the printing company. He withdrew from the business at the end of the First World War , but continued to work intensively for the book industry until the end of his life. Johannes Baensch-Drugulin died at the age of 87.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neue Deutsche Biographie 1, 1953, p. 522 f.
  2. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Volume 6. Berlin / Eberswalde 1908, pp. 1071-1072

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SURNAME Baensch-Drugulin, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baensch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typesetting and printing company owner
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1945
Place of death Leipzig