Drinks & Co.

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The company Trinks & Co. was an international publisher based in Leipzig - Stötteritz , which, particularly in the first half of the 20th century, produced tens of thousands of consecutively numbered postcards using different printing techniques . In 1955 the Deutsche Fotothek took over ten thousand photo documents from the company's archive .

meaning

The Trinks & Co. archive is an example of the importance of historical views and image documents. Johanna Dürig wrote about this in 2004:

"On the basis of the more than 60 to almost 100 year old recordings from the Trinks & Co. archive, Leipzig, the history of the sometimes serious changes in places and landscapes, often as a result of wars, urban development or settlement planning , can be traced."

history

Since the beginning

From around 1909 and at least until the war year 1943, the Trinks & Co. company produced postcards based on photographs taken by numerous photographers . The motifs represented views of “cities, recreational and vacation spots, remarkable objects (and) different landscapes”. Pictures from Saxony , Thuringia , Mecklenburg , Pomerania , Bavaria , Hesse , Silesia , Bohemia and landscapes such as Lausitz , Harz or Vogtland , but also from abroad (e.g. from Austria and the Netherlands ) were on the postcards reproduced.

Early numbering

Despite an assortment of motifs in the thousands, up to now mainly “small” consecutive numbers have often been found for each of the depicted locations, sometimes on the address side of the postcards. For example, the number “7” was assigned by the publisher to both Duisburg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber . In the case of the following postcards, the donors of the digital copies , in some cases only the photo credits on Zeno.org , provided additional information:

Since National Socialism

Photo purchases

Reverse notes of a 1933 from “Fr. Schröder, Hanover ”with“ Platte ”purchased photos

From the time of National Socialism , a document is known, the insight into the buying process for imagery by Trinks & Co. is : from the provenance of the publisher carries a photo of the then Steintors in Hanover shortly after the seizure of power the back stamp "Purchased with / without plate from ”- with the word“ without ”being crossed out and supplemented by hand -“ Fr. Schröder, Hanover ”. Numerous other handwritten additions with different pens give first indications of further in-house procedures. Obviously, "1000 bromide silver (?)" And "500 black photos ..." should be made from the acquired glass plate from the "Tr." ( Tranche ) with the photographer's motif number "82". Other overprints show, for example, the six-digit consecutive number "458702", the Trinks & Co. GmbH property stamp from 1933 and the note using a stamp after the Klaucke invention

“All rights to this photograph belong to Trinks & Co. GmbH. These photographs may not be reproduced in any way without the express written consent of this company. "

However, other stamps with texts such as “Photographic copyright Trinks & Co., Leipzig O 27 (or also“ Leipzig- Stö. ”)” Are known.

Reproductions of pre-war views

The results of photo purchases are documented - also using Hanover as an example - for the time of the Second World War by handwritten consecutively numbered postcards. The three cards with the numbers 18, 31 and 97 show different shots of the Leine Island Little Venice :

  • No. 18: “Hanover. Part on the leash Old Venice "

  • No. 31: “Hanover. Line part "

  • No. 97: "Hanover Leine Partie Little Venice"

No. 97 from 1943, released by Rust's Ministry of Education by E 12942/43

All three cards have the additional imprint “Real Photography” and the TECO trademark on the reverse alongside the publisher's notice . However, only on card no. 97 there is the addition “Approved (even) d (urch) REM ( Reich Ministry of Education ) E 12942/43”. The reference "... / 43" refers to the year 1943, the year of the heaviest air raids on Hanover during World War II . And Minister of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education was the Gauleiter and Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust , who also came from Hanover .

Typical of these three examples exposed cards from 1943, with its relatively high-quality "Real Photo" is the older origin of the recordings shown: In the best possible quality historic former views were reproduced by scenes while the original sites already the wrong state and the following aerial bombs for Victims. This also applied similarly to cities such as Frankfurt an der Oder : After the area bombing, Trinks & Co. reproduced historical photos by the photographer Walter Fricke of the still undestroyed city in the form of picture postcards and series in miniature format around 1948 , the year of the currency reform .

Address at a new beginning

According to the address book of the city of Leipzig from 1949, the Trinks & Co. company was located at Schönbachstrasse 60 . At the time, the owner and leaseholder was Christoph Georg Christian Kreickenbaum , and the authorized signatory was the unmarried Anna Erna Schuster .

The archive since 1955

In 1955, the Deutsche Fotothek took over around 9,000 glass negatives in the formats 13 × 18 and 10 × 15 cm from the Trinks & Co. archive , which had previously served as a template for postcards. Since then, the archive has also included "a few slides and postcards, as well as around 110 large index cards with notes on the location, photographer, year of recording, object [and] permission to print". These are “only places on the territory of the GDR , in view of the year the archive was taken over by the Deutsche Fotothek [... possibly] an act by the censor . Often no concordance can be established between the index cards and the negatives . "

Research needs

Previously known photographers

Through the archive in the Deutsche Fotothek, the names, but rarely the first names, of photographers who often worked for the Trinks & Co. publishing house are known. The following names of photographers could be determined so far:

  • Fritz Cölln
  • Dankelmann
  • Walter Fricke , who from 1948 had his historical views of Frankfurt (Oder) reproduced at Trinks & Co.
  • Kastner
  • Kistner
  • Leonhardt
  • Lesrout
  • Lippert
  • Loerich
  • Wilhelm Miesler
  • Müller
  • Plasowitz
  • Raslag
  • Knight
  • Ms. Schröder ; 1933 sold photographs and glass plates from Hanover to Trinks & Co.
  • Drinks
  • Witte

Continuous numerating

  • The first thing that catches the eye of the postcards, which are consecutively numbered by Trinks & Co., are the lower numbers around the Leine island "Little Venice" in Hanover. It is unclear whether these numbers were already set for the original photos at the beginning of the company's history, or whether this was done at a later date of reproduction.
  • Lack of sufficient present documents could not have continuous or consistent with the numbering of the postcards system specified are. Even an at least approximate order of magnitude for the number of different reproduced motifs was not yet possible with the current state of coverage.

Relationships with Competitors

  • The relationship with the postcard publisher Dr. Dr , which was founded around 1900 and is also based in Leipzig-Stötteritz. Trenkler & Co. with a similar range have not yet been investigated.

Web links

Commons : Trinks & Co.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Johanna Dürig: Postkartenverlag Trinks und Co. (see web links)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Compare the collection of documents at Commons
  3. ^ Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia: Homberg bridgehead with front and back at zeno.org
  4. ↑ Rothenburg o. T., Bavaria: Klingentor on zeno.org
  5. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen , Klaus Mlynek: Rust. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , passim; online through google books
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Bernhard Rust. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 532
  8. ^ A b Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel (Ed.): Frankfurt (Oder) in the mirror of the photographs by L. Haase & Co. - Photo Fricke. (= Historical series of the Frankfurt (Oder) City Archives , Volume 9.) Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-008-1 , p. 57 and more often ( online at Google books )
  9. ↑ In a similar way, the Leipzig company Schenker oHG also reproduced historical photographs from the archive of the Foto Fricke company ; see. Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel (Ed.): Frankfurt (Oder) in the mirror of the photographs by L. Haase & Co. - Photo Fricke.
  10. ↑ a b Address book Leipzig 1949
  11. ↑ Note: After checking the address using current map material, residential buildings in the form of "old buildings" can be found on the street side, so that the courtyard buildings behind the doorways may be considered for the former company headquarters.
  12. ^ Postcard series Kranichfeld
  13. ↑ Diana Schulze: Dr. Trenkler & Co. In: The photographer in the garden and park. Aspects of historical photographs of public gardens in Germany from 1880 to 1930. (= Epistemata, Würzburg scientific writings , volume 493.) (also dissertation , University of Göttingen, 2004.), in the series Epistemata: Würzburg scientific writings , volume 493, Königshausen and Neumann , Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2699-3 , p. 87, p. 283.

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 49 ″  E