Royal Prussian State Printing House

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The Königlich Prussische Staatsdruckerei was an institution that existed from 1852 to 1879 and was subordinate to the Prussian state , the predecessor of the Reichsdruckerei .

history

After Johann Wilhelm Wedding had been appointed technician in 1849 for the production of cash orders , banknotes , postage stamps and other monetary papers issued by the Prussian state authorities and the Prussian bank , he proposed the establishment of his own state institute for printing these papers. After overcoming many difficulties, the execution of his plans was approved and the property at Oranienstrasse  92/93 in Berlin was acquired. From 1849 to 1851, Gustav Emil Prüfer built a printing house, presumably based on a sketch by Friedrich August Stüler . The Royal Prussian State Printing Office was founded on April 30, 1851 and officially opened on July 1, 1852. Wedding became its first director. The neighboring property No. 94 was bought and from 1853 to 1854 the expansion of the new state printing plant took place according to Wedding's plans. In 1861 the Royal Lithographic Institute was incorporated and general staff maps were also printed. In 1866 the printing plant was expanded under the direction of deputy director Carl Busse , who became director after Wedding's death in 1872. From 1871 the Prussian State Printing Office also printed the postage stamps and banknotes for the newly founded German Reich . At the endeavors of Postmaster General Heinrich von Stephan , with the support of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , the Prussian State Bank was transferred to Reich property. On July 6, 1879, the Royal Prussian State Printing House was merged with the Royal Secret Upper Court Book Printing House von Decker to form the Reich Printing House , from which the Federal Printing House emerged after the Second World War .

literature

  • Michael Kamp: From government pressure to ID system provider. 250 years of identity and security . August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944334-14-1 .
  • Negotiations of the association for the promotion of industry in Prussia . Born 51. Nicolai'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1872, p. 75 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , accessed on August 3, 2020