Werner and Winter
The Werner and Winter GmbH , spelling and Werner & Winter , was a nationally renowned printing company in Frankfurt .
Werner & Winter specialized in the production of lithographs to illustrate mostly scientific works that were published by various publishers. She not only printed using stone, but also zincography and collotype printing, and even entire books herself.
history
The printing company was first mentioned in the Frankfurt address book in 1871. Around 1900 she was based in the north end of Frankfurt , at Fichardstrasse 5–7. Werner & Winter was a university printing company until the mid / late 1920s, printing publications from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University , the series of "Frankfurt University Speeches", numerous dissertations and other scientific works as well as various publications by the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . As early as 1874, Werner & Winter had also been producing the "communications from the protocols of the Great Mother Lodge of the Eclectic Freemasons' Association in Frankfurt am Main" and publications from other Frankfurt lodges.
An advertisement from Werner & Winter from 1920 lists the company's capabilities: "Letterpress, lithography, stone printing, zinc printing, photography, collotype printing, photo-lithography, microscopy, micro-photography, typesetting machine operation, three-color printing, drawings, drafts, clichés , Scientific boards and works, dissertations, shares, bonds , securities , illustrated catalogs, blackboards, printed matter for trade and commerce, posters, labels, ex libris ” .
In 1927 it merged with the Frankfurt-based printing and publishing house Hauserpresse R. Th. Hauser & Co. to form Hauserpresse Werner & Winter GmbH , which was taken over by Hans Schaefer a few years later (around 1930) and has since been under the name of Hauserpresse Hans Schaefer traded. In the in-house press Werner & Winter, for example, the prints of over 1,500 panels for the multi-volume encyclopedia “Butterflies of the World” by Adalbert Seitz , a work that dragged on for several years.
Georg Wilhelm Winter
Georg Wilhelm Winter (* 1844; † March 28, 1900 in Frankfurt), son of a brush manufacturer from Gießen an der Lahn, was the founder and technical director of the printing company . Winter was a long-time member of the administration and management of the Frankfurt Senckenberg Society . With his wife Elisabeth, geb. Lucae († April 1897), he had a son and three younger daughters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Winter
The son Friedrich Wilhelm Winter , also called Fritz Winter (born June 21, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main; † June 8, 1917 in Perthes-le-Châtelet ), attended the Adlerflycht-Schule ( secondary school ) in Frankfurt from 1885 to April 1894 and at the same time did training in my father's company. However, he was very interested in natural science and therefore also attended lectures in the Senckenberg Institutes in Frankfurt and on plastic anatomy (making anatomical casts) in the Städel Art Institute .
Shortly before graduating from high school, he dropped out of high school to take part in the German deep-sea expedition led by Carl Chun as a scientific draftsman and photographer in 1898/1899 . He later began studying natural sciences with Chun in Leipzig. After the death of his father, he had to break off his studies in order to support the family and took over the technical management of his father's print shop. In June 1904 he married Gertrud Adelheid von Moellendorff, the daughter of the former consul Otto Franz von Moellendorff (1848–1903), who was also active in the Senckenberg Society. From this marriage there are two daughters and finally a son.
At the same time, however, he continued his scientific studies, took courses and internships in organic and inorganic chemistry, mineralogy, geology, palaeontology, botany and zoology in the Senckenberg institutes. He was several times at zoological stations in the Mediterranean (1902, 1903 and 1905 in Rovigno / Istria, 1904 in Villefranche near Nice), where he researched mainly on unicellular organisms (former names: protista , protozoa , foraminifera , thalamophores) and also published a larger work , which was intended as a doctoral thesis. However, since he was not recognized for the required six semesters of study in Leipzig, but only two, he was not allowed to do a doctorate. In recognition of his scientific work and the achievements of the company he headed in the field of scientific and reproductive technology (Winter made many artistic blackboards about a wide variety of living beings, including fish, lice, flies and mushrooms), however, the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg appointed him on the 9th August 1912 (according to other information 1911) an honorary doctorate . During the First World War he served in the army on the western front in France from autumn 1916 and was seriously wounded by a grenade in Champagne in 1917 . Even on his deathbed, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class the day before his death .
Since 1900 Winter was a full member of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft , since 1905 (according to other information since 1901) a member of its administration (1911, 1912 and from 1915 to 1917 1st secretary), as well as a member of the board, among other things, involved in the founding of the University of Frankfurt ( He also signed the university founding contract in 1914), and as a member of the editorial board, consultant for the artistic equipment of the publications of the Senckenberg Society. On the occasion of its centenary on November 22, 1917, the Senckenberg Society accepted Friedrich Wilhelm Winter as a "permanent member". In addition, Winter was secretary of the " German Society for Applied Entomology ".
swell
- Obituary by E. Marx with reproduction of a curriculum vitae written by Friedrich Wilhelm Winter in: 49th report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society Frankfurt am Main. Volume 1/2, August 1919, pp. 126-131 (with photo by Friedrich Wilhelm Winter)
- Obituary in: The centenary of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society on November 22, 1917 (= 48th report by the Senckenberg Natural Research Society ). Pp. 250-252.
- Werner and Winter GmbH , Deutsche Fotothek Dresden and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
- In-house press , Deutsche Fotothek Dresden and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 50th report of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. H. 2, July 1920, outer back cover (after p. 142).