CE Klinkicht publishing house and printing company

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CE Klinkicht Verlag und Druckerei was a book and newspaper printing company founded in Meißen in 1798 by Christian Ehregott Klinkicht (1769–1845) from Oberottendorf near Neustadt . The print shop was owned by the Klinkicht family for several generations. After the Second World War , Klinkichts were expropriated and the business became public property. After the fall of the Wall, the entrepreneur, typesetter and printing technician Wolfgang Lerchl acquired the printing company from the Treuhandanstalt . The print shop has meanwhile developed into a nationally and internationally active online print shop .

history

Foundation and first years

When CE Klinkicht acquired a printing company in Meißen in 1798 , the printing industry had already been based there for 100 years. In 1801 Klinkicht asked the Meißner city council for permission to print a non-profit weekly newspaper. The first edition of the “Meißner non-profit weekly paper” appeared in 1802. Until then, like in the Middle Ages, the so-called “crier” went through the city and announced announcements from the city council and company offers. The paper always appeared on Saturdays with a circumference of four pages. Usually it contained two pages of text with entertainment reading and one and a half pages of advertisements.

Due to the apparently great success of the paper, it became necessary to expand the print shop again and again in the following years. In 1814/1815, for example, Klinkicht bought the former rooms of the bathing room (1797–1814) on the lower Baderberg in order to accommodate his expanded printing works there. In 1827 he received permission to start up a second print shop in the Baderberg area. From 1839 the printing company became a family business and now operated under the name C. E. Klinkicht und Sohn. In the decades that followed, C. E. Klinkicht's grandchildren and great-grandchildren took over the printing company.

The demand for the “Meißner non-profit weekly paper” increased over time, so that the paper appeared twice a week from 1840 and three times a week from 1848 and now under the name “Meißner Blätter”. Six years later, the first high-speed press was put into operation at Klinkicht. From 1856 the "Meißner non-profit weekly newspaper" appeared six times a week and was accordingly called from 1869 "Meißner Tageblatt". In addition to the weekly newspaper, which developed into a daily newspaper, the Klinkicht und Sohn printing house mainly published books with a regional reference during this period.

German Empire and World War I (1875 to 1918)

The clinic always tried to be up to date with the latest printing and communications technology. In 1890, for example, the print shop put its first rotary printing press into operation. As early as 1896 Klinkicht acquired a type setting machine called "Thorne" which was only developed and produced in 1890 by the American Josef Thorne.

Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1919 to 1945)

Despite the post-war travails of the First World War and inflation , there was hardly any stagnation in orders at Klinkicht; rather, the order situation improved, because extensive structural extensions of the printing house were carried out between 1925 and 1927. In 1928 a new 32-page rotary press was installed. Documents from the Meißner city archive show that at the end of the 1930s a special catalog from the Klinkicht bookstore was enclosed with the “Meißner Tageblatt”.

Friedrich Klinkicht, who from 1927 had sole management power in the family business Klinkicht, tried for a long time in the 1930s to maintain the status of the “Meißner Tageblatt” as an independent newspaper. This was hardly possible when the National Socialists came to power . When Friedrich Klinkicht was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the war, the end of the C. E. Klinkicht company was sealed. The family was expropriated in 1945.

Post-war and GDR period (1946 to 1990)

After the war, Elisabeth Klinkicht, Friedrich Klinkicht's wife, tried several times in vain to get the company back into family ownership. But all attempts failed. Her husband, Friedrich Klinkicht, was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1947.

In 1945/1946 the Sächsische Volkszeitung , the predecessor of today's Sächsische Zeitung , was printed in the former Klinkicht printing house . In 1947 Sachsenverlag Dresden took over the printing works as a plant. At that time, books and brochures as well as the district edition of the Saxon newspaper were mainly produced. Five years later, the Meißen plant was spun off as an independent operating unit and the "Meißner Druckhaus" was founded. In the years that followed, the "Meißner Druckhaus" mainly produced illustration and advertising prints as well as commercial printing . In 1965, the East Saxon printing combine " VEB Grafischer Großbetrieb Völkerfreundschaft Dresden" took over the printing company as a part of the business. From this point on, the focus was on the production of GDR foreign information, the printing of illustration and color prints, art catalogs, company newspapers and commercial jobs.

Current changes

Meißner Druckhaus AG

The printing house was still producing using the classic letterpress process until 1991 , when the Bavarian-born entrepreneur Wolfgang Lerchl was appointed as the new managing director by the Treuhandanstalt. In February 1992, Wolfgang Lerchl acquired the printing company, which from then on operated under the name "Meißner Druckhaus GmbH ". From then on, the range of products offered included magazines, books, color brochures and business papers. In the late 1990s, the Meißner Druckhaus was one of the most modern companies in the region. The workstations, which had previously been equipped with lead and manual typesetting machines, were from then on equipped with modern Apple Macintosh . The printing took place in 1997 on a sheet-fed offset press from the Rapida 104 series from KBA-Planeta Radebeul's Saxon plant .

Edited by the publishing house "Edition Lerchl" and printed by the Meißner Druckhaus, a number of city and tourism guides for the region around Dresden as well as books on regional history and the Dresden Semperoper were published between 1995 and 1998 .

In order to take into account the dynamic development of the company, it was renamed "Meißner Druckhaus AG" on January 1, 2000. At this point in time, Wolfgang Lerchl held 100% of the shares in the company. By July 2000, a total of 12 million D-Marks had been invested in new printing technology within four months . In March, Wolfgang Lerchl introduced the modern computer to plate exposure process . From then on, Meißner Druckhaus AG printed fully electronically. In addition, for the first time, it offered its customers individual online calculations with an offer printout. In 2000 ten product groups were stored in the calculation database.

After no optimal material flow for an expanding print shop could be achieved in the multi-storey old building in downtown Meissen, the company moved to a modern production building in 2003 in the Naundorf industrial area (Friedrich-List-Straße 3), a few hundred meters from Koenig & Bauer with a production area of ​​2700 m². In 2004 the company was renamed "MDH Medien Druck Holding AG". In order to secure further market shares and to be able to meet the increasing demand for print products, extensive expansions of the production facility took place in the years 2005 and 2006 with the construction of two production halls as well as a data and communication center. Since then, the print shop has a production area of ​​10,000 m².

Unitedprint.com SE (print24)

Unitedprint.com SE production facility in Radebeul

The print shop has been called “Unitedprint.com SE ” since 2007 and has developed over the years into an international online print shop with locations in 21 countries in Europe and North America. The company, which is active in the web2print area, now produces 20 print products using the offset printing process , including flyers , posters, stickers, business cards and postcards, when ordered online .

In mid-December 2009, Unitedprint.com SE's internet portal print24.com entered the North American market. The company has been publishing an official customer magazine since 2018, which appears once a quarter.

Publishing works (selection)

  • Johann Heinrich Clauss: About the culture of the sheep and the production of the finest wool . (1836)
  • Friedrich Adolph Ebert : The cathedral to Meissen . With a foreword by Gustav Klemm . (1835) - Online
  • Gustav Flügel : History of the three hundred year jubilee of the Royal Saxon State School St. Afra in Meissen on July 2nd and 4th, 1843 . (1843) - Online
  • Helmuth Gröger: A thousand years of Meissen. Represented on behalf of the municipal authorities . (1929)
  • Johann Ludwig Rüling: History of the Reformation in Meissen in 1539 and the following years together with proving and explanatory notes. Also a contribution to the third jubilee of this memorable event . (1839)
  • A. Textor: Memories from the great panorama of the world and human life. A reader for all stands . 6 volumes (1830–34)

literature

  • Meißner Tageblatt (Ed.): 200 years of the newspaper in Meißen . Special edition of the Meißner Tageblatt. January 2002, p. 2 f., 8-9, 11-13, 18, 20-21 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klinkicht, Christian Ehregott. on the website of the German National Library. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
  2. ↑ From the beginning and the creed . In: Meißner Tageblatt (special edition), January 2002, pp. 3–4, 8.
  3. ↑ The company at its peak . In: Meißner Tageblatt (special edition), January 2002, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Margarete Rehm: Information and communication in the past and present. ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Information and communication in the past and present . Digital text book. Retrieved December 11, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ib.hu-berlin.de
  5. ↑ The tape to Meissen . In: Meißner Tageblatt (special edition), January 2002, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Rudolf Marschner: A factory tour 50 years ago . In: Meißner Tageblatt (special edition), January 2002, pp. 20–21.
  7. ↑ Meißner Druckhaus privatized . In: Meißner Stadtanzeiger. No. 5, 1992.
  8. ↑ State-of-the-art printing press went into operation . In: Saxon newspaper . Edition Dresden, January 30, 1997.
  9. ^ Works from Edition Lerchl in the catalog of the German National Library .
  10. ↑ The Bavarians are getting pressure from Meissen . In: Saxon newspaper . July 27, 2000. Local section Meißen
  11. ↑ Have Bavaria printer fear of Saxony . In: German printer . No. 20-25 May 2000.
  12. ↑ Information from the Unitedprint Internet portal print24.de . Retrieved December 14, 2009.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 59 "  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 25.5"  E