Wilhelm Kohlhammer

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Wilhelm Kohlhammer

Wilhelm Kohlhammer (born August 26, 1839 in Meimsheim near Heilbronn, † March 8, 1893 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher and printer.

Life

Wilhelm Kohlhammer, son of a farmer and shepherd, did an apprenticeship with a notary after primary school and then worked for a few years as a notary's assistant. At the beginning of 1866 he took over the "Rümelin'sche Buchdruckerei, Buchhandlung und Badeanstalt" from his mother-in-law. On April 30, 1866, in the trade change protocol of the Stuttgart municipality, he declared that he had taken over the printing works and bathing establishment founded in 1849 by his late father-in-law Gottlob Carl Rümelin . He immediately gave the printer the company name “W. Kohlhammer " .

His experience as a notary's assistant gave him the idea of ​​producing forms for standardized administrative processes and thus not only avoiding time-consuming paperwork, but also making a contribution to administrative legal security ( form publisher ).

In addition to printing forms, he became a publisher of service regulations and legal texts as well as legal works. The standardization of the law after the founding of the Reich in 1871 provided the opportunity for Württemberg implementation provisions. In connection with the state law also the regional studies developed, which he used as a publisher in collective works for the descriptions of the 64 Württemberg upper offices and the four volumes "The Kingdom of Württemberg".

In addition to book printing, he published calendars and magazines at an early stage.

Kohlhammer founded the " Neue Deutsches Familienblatt " in 1872 , which was printed on a rotary printing press from 1895 and was published in 1914 with an edition of 185,000 copies. Due to the success of the family paper, he acquired the publishing rights to the " Deutsche Feuerwehrzeitung " in 1882 .

After his sudden death in 1893, the publishing house was continued by his widow with the support of her brother Eugen Görlach.

His grave is in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .

literature

  • "Hundred Years of Kohlhammer 1866–1966" (Stuttgart 1966, publisher number: 79014)

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personal data
SURNAME Kohlhammer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Meimsheim near Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1893
Place of death Stuttgart