Post Office
The Post Office was an authority directly subordinate to the Reich Post Office and headed by a post director. The office was entrusted with carrying out the business of a publishing house for all newspapers and magazines published in Berlin and registered for domestic distribution, as well as for the papers published by the Legal Collection Office (later Reichsverlagsamt ) (Reichsgesetzblatt, Prussische Gesetzsammlung , four ordinance papers of the Reich Ministry of Finance). It was at the same time the central and information point for matters relating to domestic and foreign newspaper sales affecting the entire postal area.
history
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On January 1, 1822, the "Royal Newspaper Komtoir" was founded, which in 1825 was merged with the Prussian "Law Collection Debits Komtoir". After the founding of the empire, it became the "Imperial Post-Newspaper Office", which was initially located at 16 Leipziger Strasse. In 1895 it moved into a new building at Dessauer Strasse 4–5, designed by the Secret Postal Councilor Ernst Hake (site manager Heinrich Techow). From 1907 to 1913 there were extensions at Königgrätzer Straße 20 (today Stresemannstraße 121). Except for the outbuildings, the Post Office was destroyed in the Second World War.
literature
- Wilhelm Küsgen, Paul Gerbeth, Heinrich Herzog, Laurenz Schneider, Gerhard Raabe: Concise dictionary of the postal system , published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1927, p. 515f
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, p. 227