Marcus DuMont

Marcus DuMont - Relief at the DuMont fountain in Cologne

Marcus Johann Theodor DuMont (nickname Marcus DuMont , born January 10, 1784 in Cologne , † November 24, 1831 ibid) was a German publisher and editor of the Kölnische Zeitung .

Life

Marcus DuMont was the youngest son of the tobacco manufacturer Franz Heinrich Joseph DuMont (1751–1787) and a nephew of Nikolaus DuMont . After completing school at Dreikönigsgymnasium and the university that was converted into a central school by the French occupiers , DuMont began studying philosophy at the University of Münster . He later moved to Würzburg and Göttingen to study law . After graduation, he returned to Cologne and wrote first legal process papers, including a dispute between Cologne canons and the French domain management to land and property , the Napoléon in 1807 ended through the Danziger decree in favor of the canons.

In 1805 DuMont married Maria Katharina Jacobina Schauberg (1779–1845), who came from a family of book printers. In 1805, DuMont bought the Schaubergsche Druckerei from his wife's family for 1,400 Reichstaler , located on Unter Goldschmied Street , which had emerged from the Hilden'schen Buchdruckerei in Cologne , founded in 1626 . With the purchase of the printing company, DuMont also took over the Kölnische Zeitung , which had been published by the heirs of Schauberg and for a time by his uncle Nicolaus DuMont since 1802, with a circulation of 250 copies.

Marcus DuMont took over the editing of the newspaper, which under his direction developed into an influential press product. Due to the decision of the French administration in the Roerdépartement to only authorize the printing of a newspaper that was published in Aachen , DuMont had to stop printing the Kölnische Zeitung in August 1809 . After protests from Napoléon DuMont was allowed to Mercure de la Roer and a feuilletonistisches publish Bulletin for Cologne. He also received an annual state subsidy of 4,000 francs as compensation .

One day after the French occupation left, on January 16, 1814, Marcus DuMont published the Kölnische Zeitung again. In 1815 he built a bookstore together with Johann Peter Bachem . For its employees, DuMont set up a benefit fund in the event of illness and disability , an early type of company health insurance . In 1816, DuMontsche Verlag and the newspaper editors were relocated from Brückenstraße to the new publishing building at Breite Straße 133. The Kölnische Zeitung was considered Catholic and critical of Prussia and was often censored . The Kölnische Zeitung appeared on May 4, 1817 with a blank front page.

Different ideas about the direction of the business led to the dissolution of the partnership agreement between Bachem and DuMont in the spring of 1818 . Bachem opened a publishing bookstore under his name, DuMont founded the Du Mont-Schauberg'sche bookstore and the M. DuMont Schauberg publishing house on April 1, 1818 .

Gravestone of Marcus DuMont in the Melaten cemetery (rebuilt in 1962)

In 1820 a branch of the DuMont bookstore was opened in Aachen, which was owned by the family until July 31, 1836 even after his death. The Cologne newspaper developed under the direction of DuMont an influential press sheet in Rhineland . The Kölnische Zeitung appeared four times a week until 1829 , after which it produced six issues. The timely coverage of the July Revolution of 1830 in France helped the paper to increase the circulation to over 3,300 copies.

Marcus DuMont died on November 24, 1831 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery (Hauptweg, between Lit. A and B). After his death, the management of the publishing house was taken over by his enterprising wife Katarina and one of his twelve children, their 20-year-old son Joseph DuMont .

A plaque with the portrait of Marcus Johann Theodor DuMont was attached to the Cologne newspaper fountain built by Theo Heiermann in 1986 at the location of the DuMont publishing house on Breite Straße in Cologne.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Kelchner:  Du Mont, Marcus Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 464-466.
2. ↑ Werner Jung: The modern Cologne - The historical city guide . JP Bachem, Cologne 2009, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-7616-1590-4 , p. 247.
3. ^ Leonard Ennen: Zeitbilder from the recent history of the city of Cologne. DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1857, p. 302.
4. ↑ Manfred Pohl: M.DuMont Schauberg: the struggle for the independence of the newspaper publisher under the Nazi dictatorship. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38919-6 , p. 24.
5. ↑ Werner Jung: The modern Cologne - The historical city guide. JP Bachem, Cologne 2009, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-7616-1590-4 , p. 249.
6. ↑ Marcus Theodor DuMont. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 125.
7. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , pp. 36 and 80.
8. ↑ Irene Franken: Women in Cologne - the historical city guide. JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2029-8 , p. 87.
9. ↑ Werner Jung: The modern Cologne - The historical city guide. JP Bachem, Cologne 2009, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-7616-1590-4 , p. 247.

literature

• Ernst Kelchner :  You Mont, Marcus Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 464-466.
• Ernst von der Nahmer, Karl Buchheim: Contributions to the history of the Cologne newspaper, its owners and employees. Volume 1: Marcus Dumont 1802-1831. Cologne 1920.
• Manfred Pohl: M. DuMont Schauberg: the struggle for the independence of the newspaper publisher under the Nazi dictatorship. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38919-6 , p. 22 f.

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