Wilhelm Girardet (Junior)
Wilhelm Girardet (born November 15, 1874 in Essen , † June 16, 1953 there ) was a German printer's owner and publisher .
Live and act
Wilhelm Girardet was the eldest son of the company's founder and Commerce Councilor Wilhelm Girardet . His brother Paul ran the company's Düsseldorf publishing house . His much younger brother Hellmut Girardet was a newspaper publisher.
He attended the Realgymnasium in Essen and reached the upper secondary level . This is followed by language and specialist training in Edinburgh , Lausanne and Zurich in order to start working in his father's company. In Zurich he was head of the local branch of the W. Girardet publishing house from 1899 to 1906.
After he returned to Essen, he was director and personally liable partner of the W. Girardet publishing house from 1906 until his death.
Girardet brought some innovations to the company. This included the rotogravure printing and later the multicolor copper rotogravure printing. This is how the print shop became a modern and efficient company. He also expanded the specialist book publisher. In doing so, he brought the company through the period of the First World War and high inflation , and later through the period of the onset of the global economic crisis and the co-ordination of the press by the National Socialists . Even after the Second World War , the existing and the reconstruction succeeded. In 1945 Wilhelm Girardet retired from active business, which at the time of his death in 1953 had around 1,400 employees. His son of the same name Wilhelm (1902–1996) took over the management of the business, his son Herbert became a personally liable partner and took over the management of the specialist magazine and specialist book publisher.
In addition, Wilhelm Girardet was until 1933 a commercial judge at the district court of Essen .
He was buried in Essen's southwest cemetery.
Honors
Wilhelm Girardet was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit .
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 117 .
- Fritz Pudor: Wilhelm Girardet; in: Life pictures from the Rheinisch-Westfälische industrial area born 1952–1954 . August Bagel Verlag, Düsseldorf 1957, p. 53 f .
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| SURNAME | Girardet, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German print shop owner and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1953 |
| Place of death | eat |