Swakopmund bookstore
| Swakopmund bookstore | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH (formerly) |
| founding | January 31, 1900 |
| Seat |
Swakopmund , Namibia
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| management | Joachim von Wietersheim |
| Branch | Book trade , formerly also publishing , printing |
| As of August 7, 2020 | |
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The Swakopmund bookstore is a bookstore , former newspaper publisher and printing company in the Namibian coastal town of Swakopmund . It was founded on January 31, 1900 by Emil Höhne. In 1902 branches in Windhoek , Keetmanshoop and Lüderitz followed .
The bookstore was the publisher of numerous newspapers in the days of German South West Africa and South West Africa , including the German South West African newspaper (from 1911), the Swakopmunder newspaper (from 1912) and the Keetmanshooper newspaper (from 1913). When the Swakopmunder Zeitung was taken over, the bookstore went to Heinrich Stolze and Hans Peters.
At the beginning of the First World War , the bookstore was given the right to print emergency money (Seitz notes) from Governor Theodor Seitz . After the capitulation, these were banned from 1915, but due to a lack of cash, the bookstore was allowed to issue official vouchers as currency substitutes. In 1923 the bookstore had to close and Stolze returned to Germany . A year later, the two existing branches were split up. The one in Windhoek went to John Meinert , while the main branch in Swakopmund was taken over by Ferdinand Stich . Among other things, he opened branches in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town .
In 1967, after the death of Stich, Hans and Anka Delius bought the bookstore. From 1998 it was owned by Anton von Wietersheim , whose son Joachim has been running it in the second generation since March 1, 2011.
gallery
Seitz Note (1914)
Currency replacement vouchers (1916)
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literature
- Golf Dornseif: labor pains and hours of death in the German colonial press. ( available online )
