Wilhelm Woellmer

Wilhelm Woellmer was the founder of the font foundry of the same name , in which many well-known Gothic fonts were developed.

Woellmer was initially a commercial employee at the Eduard Hänel type foundry . Woellmer founded his own company in Berlin in 1854 as a trading company for book printing utensils. Ten years later, in 1864, he added the type foundry to the business.

In 1883 the company was taken over by Siegmund Borchardt, a partner in a paper wholesaler. Borchardt's brother, Emil Borchardt , joined the company as a further partner in 1884. A brass line factory was built around 1888. In 1938 the last self-developed typeface appeared ("Gabriele" by Hans Möhring) and the company was dissolved. Some of the fonts went to the foundries Gebr. Klingspor , Genzsch & Heyse, Schriftguß KG and CE Weber.

Choice of well-known fonts

• Atlantis Grotesque - 1931
• Boldrini - 1902
• Drescher express writing - 1934 by Arno Drescher
• Goethe Fraktur 1905
• Jochheim German - 1934 Konrad Jochheim
• Jewel - 1908
• Lessing Antiqua 1908
• Mercedes Antiqua - 1904 by Heinrich Wieynck

swell

• List of artists from the Klingspor Museum Offenbach
• List of former McGill University type foundries, Canada ( September 15, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Friedrich Bauer: Chronicle of the type foundries in Germany and the German-speaking neighboring countries. Offenbach 1928