Trowitzsch & Son

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Former printer Trowitzsch in Frankfurt (Oder) in 2016

Trowitzsch & Sohn were book publishers in Küstrin , Frankfurt (Oder) and Berlin from 1711 to 1945.

history

Küstrin and Königsberg in the Neumark

In 1711 the court printer Gottfried Heinichen was granted the privilege of founding a printing press in Küstrin by King Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1738 his son-in-law Johann Huebner took over, and in 1754 his son Wilhelm Gottlieb Huebner. In 1759 the building was destroyed by Russian troops. In 1760 Johann Friedrich Grunow (died 1768) acquired the concession. In 1780, Carl Gottlob Trowitzsch (1745-1819), who had worked there as a factor since 1770, took over the company and moved it to Königsberg in the Neumark region in 1813/14 , where the Neumark government had moved.

Frankfurt Oder

In 1815 he bought Christian Ludwig Apitz's printing works in Frankfurt / Oder at Forststraße 3 and relocated the company there because the government had moved to Frankfurt. He now called them Trowitzsch & Sohn . Carl Ferdinand Sigismund Trowitzsch (1797-1830) became his successor and in 1821 acquired a printing works in Berlin and in 1826 the Hebrew printing works in Frankfurt. He moved the company to Große Oderstraße.

After his death, the Berlin managing director Wilhelm Mütterlein took over the management of the still underage children, then his son Gustav Mütterlein. In 1852 Hugo Hans Sigismund Trowitzsch (d. 1862) took over the Frankfurt company, then Gustav Mütterlein again. In 1877 his son Eugen Trowitzsch (1854–1904) followed him. In 1887 he built a new print shop at Wilhelmsplatz 21 with a villa . He also collected paintings and composed choral pieces. His son Joachim Trowitzsch (1883–1930) followed his father in Frankfurt. In the 1920s, he relocated the production facilities to Fürstenwalder Straße. His sister Hedwig and her husband Rudolf Hahn took over the villa on Wilhelmsplatz as a medical practice.

Berlin

Karl Sigismund Trowitzsch had also bought the printing and type foundry Unger in Berlin in 1821. In 1826 it was on Oberwasserstraße. Since 1830, the managing director Wilhelm Mütterlein was in charge of the underage children, then his son Gustav Mütterlein. In 1852 the son Eugen Trowitzsch (1826–1867) took over the company, after his death Gustav Mütterlein again.

In 1888 Edmund Mangelsdorf (died 1919) and the scholar Otto Freiherr von der Pfordten bought the Berlin company. The latter left his management role in 1892.

Publications

The publishers Trowitzsch & Sohn in Frankfurt ad Oder and Berlin were among the most important publishers in the province of Brandenburg . They published official announcements, newspapers and magazines, calendars, garden literature, art prints, Hebrew prints, as well as books on historical, theological and other topics.

Frankfurt Oder

  • Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Frankfurt ad Oder , 1815–1945
  • Frankfurter Patriotisches Wochenblatt , since 1880 Frankfurter Oder-Zeitung until 1945

literature

  • The Trowitzsch & Son house in Berlin. Its origin and history from 1711 to 1911. Berlin, Trowitzsch 1911. 122 pages
  • Brockhaus-Konversationslexikon . 15th volume. 14th edition. Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna 1894–1896. P. 1019
  • Friedrich Bauer, Hans Reichardt: Chronicle of the type foundries in Germany and the German-speaking neighboring countries . Frankfurt am Main 2011. (after printing by Offenbach 1928). P. 22. PDF

Web links

Commons : Trowitzsch & Sohn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Works by Trowitzsch in Cüstrin in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Friedrich Bauer, Hans Reichardt: Chronicle of the type foundries in Germany and the German-speaking neighboring countries . Frankfurt am Main 2011. (after printing by Offenbach 1928). P. 22. PDF , detailed on the Berlin companies up to 1919