Richard Borek

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Richard Borek (born June 30, 1874 in Braunschweig ; † May 13, 1947 there ) was a German stamp dealer, printer, merchant and publisher. He was the founder of the Richard Borek group of companies in Braunschweig .

Life

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Anton Borek fur store
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Richard Borek's house at the cathedral


Borek was the son of the furrier Anton Borek (1841-1894) and his wife Emma, ​​née von Walbeck-Lambrecht (1845-1923). His father had opened a hat and fur shop in downtown Braunschweig in 1870. Borek's hobby was collecting stamps. His interest was rekindled in 1893 when commemorative postage stamps appeared in the United States on the occasion of the World's Fair in Chicago and the anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. He searched the correspondence of the shop and found numerous old postage stamps from Braunschweig, including a sheet of postage stamps from the Duchy of Braunschweig, which he hung in the window of his parents' shop. When he met with great interest, he began to turn his hobby into a profession and sell stamps to philatelists . From 1906 onwards, stamps were sold hot off the press and the first lists of offers were issued. This was to become the cornerstone for the later Richard Borek mail order company. In 1907 he first bought a house on Domplatz 4. The company "Richard Borek-Braunschweig" moved in there on April 1st of that year. This move was accompanied by a specialization in the trade and mailing of postage stamps. In his father's shop, Borek had previously offered self-produced postcards and collector's pictures as well as some postage stamps. Collecting these stamps was still a young passion, because the stamps had only been used to frank mail since 1840. At first, people only collected the used, canceled copies. Seen in this way, Borek had discovered a market niche for himself, because there were many small states within Germany that each used different motifs for their brands. For example, if you wanted to collect brands from southern Germany, you could buy them from Richard Borek. The move had become necessary because the premises in his father's shop were no longer sufficient.

Postage stamp trade and printing

(Seal) Richard Borek, Braunschweig Postage Stamp Dealer

Borek sold the approximately 60,000 series of Liebig pictures and the postcard business in order to get the necessary capital for his new stamp business and the acquisition of the house on Wilhelmsplatz . Buying used postage stamps was not very lucrative, so he switched to buying stamps fresh off the press at the respective post offices, which he then sold at a premium. He quickly realized that there was an additional need for expandable scrapbooks. In 1918, for example, he founded his own printing company, which produced clip-on bindings for stamp collectors, catalogs and brochures. In 1925, a remote auction for "rare stamps" took place for the first time.

Borek was married to Martha, nee Schmidt (1881-1958), and had a son of the same name Richard (1911-1993) and a grandson Richard (* 1943). In 1981 his son founded the Richard Borek Foundation named after his father .

literature

  • The history of the Richard Borek house, Braunschweig. Book and offset printer Richard Borek, Braunschweig 1968, OCLC 806696655 .
  • Richard Borek KG: 50 years of Richard Borek Druck. 100 years of the Borek family in Braunschweig. Book and offset printer Richard Borek, Braunschweig 1968, OCLC 37632312 .
  • Ralph-Herbert Meyer: The oldest mail order company is 111 years old. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . of September 30, 2004 ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de ( memento of February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 120 years of Richard Borek in Braunschweig on Briefmarkenspiegel.com
  2. ↑ a b 100 years ago Borek moved to the cathedral. on borek.de
  3. ↑ 125 years of Richard Borek on borek.de
  4. ↑ Ingeborg Obi-Preuß: A stroke of luck for Braunschweig ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Unser38.de from June 26, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Borek, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Stamp dealer, printer, merchant and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1947
Place of death Braunschweig