Publishing house JF Steinkopf

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The JF Steinkopf publishing house is a publishing house founded in Stuttgart in 1792 .

history

The beginnings of the publishing house go back to the privilege of running an antiquarian bookshop and publishing house, which Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg granted Johann Christoph Betulius (1728–1791) from the von Birken family in 1769 . On March 13, 1792, a grandson of Betulius, the master bookbinder Johann Friedrich Steinkopf (1771-1852), took over the business, which from now on was run as JF Steinkopf Verlag and to which in 1806 he still affiliated the book printing and printing concession acquired by Karl Jakob Klett . In 1815 the antiquarian bookshop was first transferred to JF Steinkopf's brother Ferdinand († 1828), which was taken over by Gustav Süskind, a nephew of JF Steinkopf, after his death.

The bookstore and printing company, which had initially continued to be run by the senior boss, was transferred in 1840 to JF Steinkopf's nephew Rudely Franz Louis Hänel (1808–1847), who had been a partner since 1834. After his unexpected death, Friedrich August Steinkopf (1824–1903), a son of Ferdinand Steinkopf, took over the publishing house in 1847.

In order to secure the management in the following years, Friedrich August Steinkopf first put his son Carl, then the two sons-in-law, Conrad Christian Weitbrecht (1847-1893) and Konrad Gustorff, and later his grandchildren and sons of Conrad Christian, Friedrich Weitbrecht ( 1874–1925) and Otto Carl Weitbrecht (1880–1936), each became partners in the company. After the death of Friedrich August Steinkopf, Friedrich Weitbrecht took over the management of the company and in 1922 reintegrated the antiquarian bookshop that had been outsourced over 100 years earlier. The Thienemann-Verlag was also added from 1911 , but was spun off again with Otto Carl Weitbrecht's departure from the Steinkopf-Verlag in 1916. After Friedrich Weitbrecht's death, his cousin Martin Weitbrecht (1883–1950), married to Emilie Steinkopf, and finally his nephew Walter Friedrich Weitbrecht (1905–1989) took over the publishing house from 1925. Since Carl Steinkopf and his son Otto had died in the meantime, the traditional family name only existed in the company name and the publishing house was actually run by the Weitbrecht family .

In 1972, the company was transferred as a GmbH under the name JF Steinkopf Druck und Buch GmbH Stuttgart to Ulrich Weitbrecht (* 1927), son of Martin Weitbrecht, with the three independently managed divisions of the bookstore, the printer and the antiquarian bookshop. In 1995 Steinkopf Druck was separated from Steinkopf Buchhandlung and Antiquariat and four years later the bookshop and secondhand shop, which is now managed by Frieder Weitbrecht (* 1944), are each separated as a GmbH. As early as 1996, the printing and publishing division was merged with the Friedrich Wittig publishing house from Hamburg into the Evangelische Presseverband Nord e. V. , later Evangelischer Presseverlag Nord GmbH .

In the early years of the company, the company was located at Holzstrasse 16 in Stuttgart and from 1875 at Marienstraße 11. In 2005, the company headquarters was relocated to Hermannstrasse 5 in Stuttgart.

range

First edition of the boy scout novel “Always ready” by the Swiss pastor and youth writer Niklaus Bolt, published in 1916, which sold 6 editions by 1934

The publisher, which to this day sees itself as the administrator of Swabian cultural assets and supports this with author readings and special campaigns, first attracted attention in 1792 with a new publisher's catalog and two years later with compulsory reading about the state's selection . Another major commission followed in 1815 with the bestsellers Daily Manual , a prayer collection by Johann Friedrich Starck and Friederike Luise Löffler's cookbook . The greatest printing and sales success, however, was the book Die Heilige und ihr Narr by Agnes Günther in 1912 with a circulation of 1.5 million copies.

The company's range includes primarily books on Protestant theology represented by Ludwig Hofacker , Julius Köstlin , Karl von Gerok and many others, as well as books on Württemberg regional studies and history, pedagogy, folk and youth literature as well as narrative literature and poetry such as by Johann Albrecht Bengel , Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , Johannes Baader , but also other mainly natural science books.

In addition to books, Steinkopf also published various magazines , including from 1831 the oldest German Sunday newspaper Der Christenbote , published by Prelate Gottlieb Friedrich von Weitbrecht , which was censored and banned by the National Socialists in 1944, or from 1836 to 1916 by Christian Gottlob Barth and others Employees published youth papers . The long-standing series publications also included the German Youth and People's Library , which appeared in 215 numbers between 1865 and 1908 or, from 1867–1907, The Christian Art Journal by Carl Grüneisen and David Koch.

literature

  • Ute Liebert: History of the Stuttgart children's and youth book publishers in the 19th century . Stuttgart 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Survey of the holdings of the State Church Archives Kiel , section 15.05.01, p. 33 on the website of the University of Hamburg
  2. ^ Evangelischer Presseverlag Nord GmbH