Jos. Feichtinger's heirs

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Jos. Feichtingers Erben, logo in the 1924 commemorative publication

Jos. Feichtingers Erben (abbreviation for both Josef Feichtinger's heirs and Josefa Feichtinger's heirs ) is the second oldest book printing company and one of the oldest publishing houses in Upper Austria . The company is named after the two long-time managing directors Josef Feichtinger (1793–1809) and Josefa Feichtinger (1810–1847).

history

In 1674 Hanns Jakob Mayr immigrated to Linz from Kempten im Allgäu . On September 14, 1674, he was accepted into the citizenship of Linz as a printer. Mayr competed with Caspar Freyschmid's established printing company, because according to documents from the Linz City Archives , a dispute soon arose between the two entrepreneurs. Mayr's first known print dates from 1675 and is entitled Officina pietatis, Sodalibus BM Virginis, natae angelorum Reginae. Lineii typis Jacobi Mayr. From 1676 Mayr published the Linzer Zeitung . The fact that Mayr was also a bookseller can be seen from the trade fair catalogs of the German book trade, in which Linz was first mentioned as the place of publication in 1682.

Johann Rädlmayr continued to run Mayr's business. At the beginning of the 18th century, he received additional competition from the printer Franz Zachäus Auinger, who moved from Steyr to Linz and set up a third Linz office that lives on today in the Wimmer Medien company .

Feichtinger family

In the 1720s, Johann Michael Feichtinger took over the printing company from Johann Rädlmayr. Although Feichtinger ran the business for over forty years, owned at least two Linz townhouses and was a member of the city council, little is known about his person. On January 19, 1761, the 68-year-old widower married 36-year-old Maria Katharina Unverdorbin. Johann Michael Feichtinger died in Linz on December 10, 1768.

The widow Maria Katharina Feichtinger ran the printing company with energy and skill. She continued to print the calendars her husband had designed. After founding the school book publisher in Vienna , she succeeded in obtaining approval (consensus) to print the German normal school books . She also had a privilege to publish "Laws, Ordinances and Patents". In 1776 she published the Linzerisches Sackkalenderl for the first time . This miniature calendar was a forerunner of the later popular Viennese wallet calendar . In 1781 the new calendar of instances was founded, which later changed to the kk scheme . After the conversion of the old Redoutensaal into a country theater , the Feichtinger company printed valuable theater bills on white silk.

Feichtinger House on the main square of Linz

The 21-year-old Josef Feichtinger, the first namesake of the company Jos. Feichtinger's heirs , married the wealthy Linz patrician daughter Theresia Ringlmayrin in 1786, who was several years older than her. On October 1, 1790, the two of them bought a house on Linz's main square and set up a large shop there, whose workshop was accessible through the elongated back yard. In 1794 the now widowed Feichtinger married the young Josefa Löberbaurin. The great city fire on August 15, 1800 destroyed the company's workshop with the letters stored in it . Josef Feichtinger then received permission to procure replacement letters from Basel , Strasbourg , Frankfurt am Main and Jena . In 1809 the Linz printers Friedrich Eurich and Josef Feichtinger fled from the French in order not to share the fate of their famous colleague, the Nuremberg bookseller Johann Philipp Palm , who was executed in Braunau am Inn in 1806 . Josef Feichtinger died on April 25, 1815 in Bregenz. His wife Josefa Feichtinger, who had been managing the business since the end of 1810, thus became its sole owner.

Josefa Feichtinger, a resolute and hardworking woman and the second namesake of the later Hofbuchdruckerei Jos. Feichtinger's heirs was known as "the beautiful Feichtinger". She almost completely renounced the self-publishing, the most important business of the house was the printing of the normal school books, the printing work for the state estates in Austria over the Enns and Salzburg and the production of the publishing works of Linz and foreign booksellers.

Feichtinger's heirs

Viktor Drouot married Josefa Feichtinger's older daughter of the same name in 1845. Drouot, Mayor of Linz 1867–1873 , headed the printing and publishing company for over 50 years. From 1878 his company was allowed to use the name "kk Hofbuchdruckerei", which was a special distinction for a book printer in the Austrian province at the time. The technical director Carl Großer, who came from Riesa on the Elbe , set up the musical printing.

Hans Drouot, who housed the young student Rainer Maria Rilke in his apartment in 1891/92 , introduced three- and four-color printing in his office. The largest contingent of his work was medical, mathematical and foreign language works, including the Austrian State Dictionary by Ernst Mischler and Joseph Ulbrich , published by Alfred von Hölder , or the Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine (4 volumes, 1906–1909) by Moses Schnirer and Hermann Vierordt. Drouot also printed for Deuticke Verlag , Wilhelm Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagbuchhandlung , Kunstanstalt Josef Löwy and for the Linz-based publishers of Ebenhöchschen Buchhandlung and Hofbuchhandlung Vinzenz Fink . During the First World War , emergency money was printed for the state government and many Upper Austrian communities based on designs by Klemens Brosch and Karl Kieslinger.

In the further course of the 20th century the importance of the publishing bookstore declined. The name Feichtinger still lives in the paper and bookstore Jos, which was founded in 1994 . Feichtingers Erben GmbH & Co.KG (commercial register number 118156i). Its headquarters are at Herrenstrasse 6 in Linz, where the Wimmer printing press, which was set up in 1843, is where the historical roots of the daily mail and the Upper Austrian news can be found.

Senior

  • 1674–1683 Johann Jakob Mayr,
  • 1683 Maria Elisabeth Mayrin, his widow,
  • 1683–1721 Johann Rädlmayr,
  • 1721–1768 Johann Michael Feichtinger († December 10, 1768),
  • 1768–1793 Maria Katharina Feichtinger († July 1, 1793), his widow,
  • 1793–1809 Josef Feichtinger († April 25, 1815), their son,
  • 1810–1847 Josefa Feichtinger († November 8, 1847), his widow,
  • 1847–1897 Viktor Drouot (1811–1897), whose son-in-law,
  • 1897 to at least 1925: Hans Drouot (* May 16, 1855 - April 26, 1945), his nephew
  • 1930s: Leopold Woisetschläger
  • 1950s: Hans Woisetschläger

literature

  • Carl Junker : A quarter of a millennium. 1674 to 1924. The Linz printing and publishing company Jos. Feichtinser's heirs (Hans Drouot) in Linz. A contribution to the history of printing in Upper Austria. Linz on September 14, 1924. Printing and publishing by the Hofbuchdruckerei Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz 1924 (in places shortened text without images, Linz 1925: viewer or full text on digi.landesbibliothek.at).
  • Carl Junker: The Jos. Feichtinger's heirs (Hans Drouot) in Linz. In: Peter R. Frank, Murray G. Hall (ed.): On the book system in Austria. Collected Writings. 1896–1927 (= book research. Contributions to the book industry in Austria. Volume 2). Edition Praesens, Vienna 2001, pp. 380–396 (reprint of the short version from 1925; PDF on fwf.ac.at).

Web links

Commons : Jos. Feichtingers Erben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Junker 2001, p. 382.
  2. ↑ Junker 2001, p. 383.
  3. ↑ a b Junker 2001, p. 387.
  4. ↑ Junker 2001, p. 388.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Junker 2001, p. 389.
  6. ↑ a b Junker 2001, p. 390.
  7. ↑ a b c d Junker 2001, p. 391.
  8. ↑ a b Junker 2001, p. 394.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Leppmann: Rilke. His life, his world, his work. Piper, 1993, ISBN 9783492223942 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  10. ↑ Junker 1924, unabridged Festschrift p. 34.
  11. ↑ Junker 1924, unabridged Festschrift p. 40.
  12. ↑ The history of the OÖN. In: nachrichten.at. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  13. ^ Knight Hans von Drouot on ZOBODAT