Linus Wittich

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Linus Wittich (born March 16, 1929 in Lützenhardt ; † August 19, 1985 in Ulm ) was a German publisher and founder of the publishing group of the same name based in Höhr-Grenzhausen .

Life

Linus Wittich grew up in the country, in the village of Betra near Horb am Neckar . He attended school in Ravensburg and then completed a commercial apprenticeship at the company Nothelfer & Söhne. At the age of 19 he moved to Offenburg to the A&O grocery wholesaler and later to Düsseldorf , where he worked as a trainee at Kaufhof. In Lützenhardt in the Black Forest, he opened a grocery store called "Feinkost Wittich". He also opened the “Lino-Milchbar”. In order to advertise it, he got a used printing press for advertising slips. This resulted in an advertising leaflet for Lützenhardt. In Lützenhardt he met his wife Edith, who was there for a cure.

The publisher Günter Lütze from Reutlingen became aware of the young entrepreneur . Lütze recognized the need for official gazettes and newsletters and granted licenses to young entrepreneurs, including Wittich, for his publishing concept under the name “PRIMO-Verlag”. He began his publishing career in Bendorf near Koblenz with Lützes license concept . At that time, many young publishers started under the name “PRIMO-Verlag”; there are still a few newsletters publishers that have kept this name. At first, rented rooms were sufficient for the small printing house with typesetting. Almost ten employees, including many temporary workers, worked for the up-and-coming company. In 1968, the time was ripe for a new building in the neighboring community of Weitersburg. Over the years, the company was bursting at the seams here too. In 1977 the new, large publishing and printing house was opened in Höhr-Grenzhausen.

The tendency to bring official notices to the public through “newsletters” began to prevail in all federal states. The previous way of bringing notices to the public by posting them in the well-known “black boxes” was no longer sufficient for case law. Wittich gradually expanded its activities to almost all federal states. Wittich did not live to see the fall of the wall and the expansion of the distribution areas into the new federal states. While expanding activities in Bavaria and setting up a new publishing house in Schrobenhausen, he suffered a heart attack and died on August 19, 1985.

The company has been run by his widow and children since his death.

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SURNAME Wittich, Linus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and company founder
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lützenhardt
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1985
Place of death Ulm