Karl Franz Koehler

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Karl Franz Koehler (1843-1897)

Karl Franz Koehler (born August 22, 1843 in Leipzig , † August 5, 1897 in Bonn ) was a German bookseller and bar stocker .

Life

His grandfather Karl Franz Gottlieb Koehler (* January 7, 1764 - December 29, 1833) founded the KF Koehler company in Leipzig in 1719. His father Karl Franz Koehler (* March 23, 1805, † December 2, 1872) took over the business in 1830. His mother Julie Koehler b. Liebing from Kahla married his father in 1837. The marriage resulted in seven children, three daughters and four sons. Karl Franz Koehler was the oldest son. He learned the trade of bookseller from 1858–1861 at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen and worked as an assistant at Dulau & Co. in London (1861–1863), Otto Lorenz in Paris (1863–1864) and Wilhelm Braumüller in Vienna (1865 -1867). On January 1st, 1873 he took over the business from his father. In 1881 he bought the "Fries'sche commission business ", which at that time had 208 consignees . In 1881/1882 a spacious new building was built. As a specialist in literature, he founded a bar assortment on January 1, 1888 as a central book store to supply mainly smaller assortments and published warehouse catalogs. In 1887 a wholesaler for teaching materials was added . His younger brother Hugo Koehler took over the affiliated antiquarian business in 1884 . The resulting large-scale business with international business moved into the Koehler-Haus, which was built in Leipzig's booksellers' quarter in 1894 and expanded in 1897. In 1896 the business was housed in a large building at Täubchenweg 21. Karl Franz Koehler died in Bonn on August 5, 1897. He was buried in the New Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. The business was inherited by his widow Bertha Koehler nee Schall , it was continued for them and their children by the two partners Rudolf Winkler (since 1890) and Otto Engert (since 1895).

The company's bindings are often marked with KFK or KFBS ( Karl Franz Koehler Bar range ) on the back cover.

1918 merged the company Karl Franz Koehler, led by his descendants, with Friedrich Volckmar to Koehler & Volckmar AG (KV).

Today the company operates under the name Koch, Neff and Volckmar .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official address book of the German book trade , Leipzig, 1904, frontispiece .
  2. ↑ Bookseller and bibliographer (born June 5, 1831 in Leipzig; † March 26, 1895 in Paris)
  3. ↑ Rudolf Schmidt.
  4. ^ So Rudolf Schmidt, on the other hand, Hans Lülfing assumes in 1887.
  5. ↑ The new commercial building of the KF Koehler company in Leipzig .
  6. ↑ KFKBS. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Description of the companies, historical development.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Karl Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and bar retailer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1897
Place of death Bonn