Wilhelm Frick bookstore
| Wilhelm Frick Buchhandlung GmbH
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| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| Branch | Book and media industry, paper retail |
| Website | www.buchhandlung-frick.at |
The Wilhelm Frick company is a Viennese book publisher and former supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court . The address is at Graben 27 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt .
history
Beginnings until 1868
The origins of this Viennese bookstore go back to Johann Thomas Trattner , who was born around 1719 in Jahrmannsdorf near Güns . As an orphan, relatives gave him an apprenticeship at the S. Müller printing company in Wiener Neustadt , where he learned his trade and chose his motto: "Altius labore et favore", which means something like "Up through work and favor".
Trattner was a person who always strived for more. Through a reformation of the art of printing and always looking for privileges and monopolies, he created organizations that outlived his life. Shortly before his death, he ran seven bookstores, five book printers, 18 book losses and two paper mills. The Viennese printer was also able to print works by foreign-language authors, as this was made possible by Austrian laws and the financial policy of the time.
In 1751 Johann Trattner received the position of court book dealer from Maria Theresia and on January 28, 1752 he was given permission to open a bookshop himself, which soon became the first bookshop in town. After the loss of all of his children, Trattner left his entire fortune and property to his grandchildren Franziska and Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattner, who was born in 1776 and was designated as the successor to the business. As early as 1805 he sold the bookstore to Josef Kalefanz Tendler, who later passed it on to his son Franz.
The company was renamed several times in the following years: Tendler & Sohn, Tendler & Co, Tendler & Schäfer and finally again Tendler & Co. When Tendler's widow Dominica Veronica took over the bookstore in October 1854, the business flourished and the publishing house grew in importance . During this time, works by Anna Dorn, Luise Ebersberg and Franz Stelzhamer were in the publisher's directory.
On October 24, 1858, Sylvester Pötzelberger, who had been managing director and partner since 1855, and Carl Fromme, the authorized signatory, became the new owners of the bookstore. However, because of his health, Pötzelberger left the business at the end of 1861. Fromme kept the range at that time and promoted his own calendar publishing house. He sold the Tendler & Co Verlag to Carl Gerold's son. Carl Fromme bought the Winternitz book printing company a little later.
In 1868 Fromme sold to Julius Grosser, who went bankrupt through risky speculation. On October 26, 1868, Wilhelm Frick and Georg Paul Faesy bought the bookstore from Grosser's bankruptcy estate.
Faesy & Frick
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Wilhelm Johann Carl Frick (November 18, 1843 - November 8, 1886) was born in Charlottenthal near Güstrow in Mecklenburg . Without parents at an early age, he received a careful upbringing from his foster parents and then entered the Stillersche Hofbuchhandlung in Rostock as an apprentice . In 1864 he left his homeland and took a position as an assistant in the court bookshop of Credner in Prague , in which he stayed even when Credner's successor Satow bought the business.
Already during his apprenticeship he had taken over the editing of the "Stenographic Entertainment Gazette" .
In 1867 Frick moved to Vienna to work for the Tendler & Comp. to assume sole management of the range.
Georg Paul Faesy, born in Zurich in 1844 , died in Vienna in 1887, received his training as a bookseller at Schulteß in Zurich, Nuremberg , Leipzig and Prague. He had met Frick at Credner's in Prague.
When in 1868 - just one year after Frick's move to Vienna - the Tendler company had to close due to speculation by the publisher, the time had come for Frick to look for a field of independent activity. The union with GP Faesy gave him the opportunity to do this, with whom he opened a bookstore under the Faesy & Frick company at Graben 22 on October 26, 1868.
The publication of a larger specialist agricultural catalog and the establishment of an agricultural and forestry literature sheet, to which the publishing house of the "Mittheilungen des kk Ackerbau-Ministry" and a number of agricultural publications were linked, created a solid basis for the agricultural range. This branch soon expanded to an undreamt-of extent with customers all over Austria. As a second pillar, Faesy & Frick successfully specialized in foreign language (especially French, English and Italian) literature.
In 1872 the company was given the title of kuk court supplier. In the same year, the first »Illustrated Camp Catalog« , which was still new at the time, was published, compiled with skill and received with great acclaim .
In the years 1875-76 began the establishment of the magazine publisher: the Oesterreichische Landwirtschaftliche Wochenblatt , the Centralblatt for the entire forestry , the Vienna fruit and garden newspaper (later united with the organ of the horticultural society).
In 1886 Fricks Rundschau was founded , which was also very successful.
In 1875 the bookstore moved to larger premises in the newly built Graben 27. In 1877 and 1878, the company was given new, important publishing objects by taking over the Austrian world exhibition reports from Philadelphia and Paris .
Wilhelm Frick bookstore
In the summer of 1881 Frick took over the range on his own account, while Georg Paul Faesy, with whom he remained on friendly terms afterwards, looked for his own sphere of activity in the publishing house.
After Frick's death in 1886, the business passed to his widow, who had meanwhile taken on her brother-in-law, then authorized signatory Albert Köhler, as a partner. He managed the extensive business alone since Frick's death.
In 1935 Heinrich Fischer (1903 Vienna - 1977 London), who also acted as managing director, took over the bookstore and publishing house with the silent partner Alois Engländer (1907 Prague - 1996 Vienna). Prior to that, Fischer was a partner in the Berger & Fischer bookstore on Kohlmarkt. He immediately began a lively publishing activity, including one of the first “Coffeetable” books in the form of a monograph on the Vienna Philharmonic with a text by the important music critic Heinrich Kralik and later very popular humorous books with caricatures by Eugen Graf Ledebur and texts by Ferdinand Czernin. For example “The Hunting Bibles” and “This Salzburg”.
After the “Anschluss” in 1938, Frick was Aryanized due to the Jewish origin of the partners. Fischer had to emigrate to England and the English went to the USA. In 1946 Heinrich Weißhappel was appointed public administrator. The original owners Heinrich Fischer and Alois Engländer, who returned to Vienna, got their shares back. Fischer, who sold his stake to the English, had started a world career as an art dealer in London with the Marlborough Fine Art and Fischer Fine Art galleries, which represented well-known artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Henry Moore and also pioneered classical Austrian modernism (Klimt , Schiele) had earned merits in the Anglo-Saxon countries.
The Wilhelm Frick bookstore was registered on June 16, 1955 as "Wilhelm Frick Buchhandlung Gesellschaft mbH " and deleted on January 23, 2001. The original company was merged with the "Buchhandlung Alpenverlag Gesellschaft mbH" in accordance with the resolution of the general meeting on September 28, 2000. Afterwards the company name of the Alpenverlag was changed to "Wilhelm Frick Buchhandlung Gesellschaft mbH". The new company has existed since February 24, 1947 and is the sole property of the managing partner Wilhelm Sotsas, who also has direct and indirect shares in other companies or is their managing director (e.g. WISO Buchvertrieb Ges.mbH, SOWI Beteiligungs GmbH and the Salzburg bookstore Eduard Höllrigl , formerly Herm.Kerber Gesellschaft mbH). The registered office of the company is in 1230 Vienna, Heizwerkstraße 8.
In 2004, the Wilhelm Frick bookstore took over the traditional Georg Prachner bookstore, founded in 1785 on Vienna's Kärntner Strasse . In the years up to 2017, the Kärntner Strasse branch and the Keplerplatz branch in Vienna were closed. There are currently four branches in Vienna and another four in the federal states. In addition to the original books segment, the company now manages all segments of the modern book trade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company register excerpt for FN 97983v
- ↑ Company register excerpt for FN 41174a
- ↑ news.at - Prachner traditional bookstore is sold ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Börsenblatt for the German book trade and Austrian bookseller correspondence, 1886.
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4
- Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer . Volume 2. Berlin / Eberswalde 1903, pp. 267-268.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 31.7 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 11.1" E