Record Group - 09.22 Book trade and printing trade

In the course of the 18th century, Leipzig developed into the central trade fair venue for the book trade. The "Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler zu Leipzig", founded in 1825, initially devoted itself to rationalising accounting at trade fairs, but increasingly also represented the interests of the profession. The number of manufacturing and distributing book trade companies (publishing book trade, intermediate book trade, assortment book trade) as well as the polygraphic trade (e.g. bookbinderies, printers) operating in Leipzig rose steadily; in the second half of the 19th century polygraphic mechanical engineering was added. In the course of the 19th century, many of these companies concentrated in the Graphic Quarter east of Leipzig's city centre. Until the beginning of the Second World War, a broad spectrum of companies active in the book trade and polygraphic trade developed in Saxony, for example nationally important scientific publishers such as B.G. Teubner and music publishers such as C.F. Peters in Leipzig or lithographic institutions such as Kunstanstalten May AG in Dresden. Above all, the destruction of the Leipzig Graphic Quarter in December 1943 and the German-German division after 1945 ended this supremacy.<br/><br/>After the "Referendum on the Expropriation of Nazi and War Criminals" of 30 June 1946, most publishing houses in Saxony were transferred to public ownership. They mostly kept their established company names. In the western occupation zones and in the Federal Republic of Germany, publishers of the same name were often established, so that parallel publishers existed. In October 1949, the newly founded Buchhaus Leipzig in Saxony took over the task of central book distribution. In July 1949 the order centre for the graphic arts industry was founded to mediate and control tasks to the graphic arts industry, in particular to organise and monitor reparations. From 1951 onwards, the renowned VEB Verlag der Kunst in Dresden dealt with book production and the edition of contemporary cultural-political pictures in the fields of fine arts, applied arts and art studies. In 1953 the foreign trade company Deutscher Buch-Export und -Import was established in Leipzig. Since the 1960s, the printing industry has been largely concentrated in large companies, including VEB Interdruck Graphischer Großbetrieb Leipzig and VEB Graphischer Großbetrieb Völkerfreundschaft in Dresden. <br/><br/>After the privatisation process that began in 1990 was completed, only a few of the formerly state-licensed publishing houses operating in the districts of Dresden, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt still exist.

Saxon State Archives (Archivtektonik) >> 09. economy

Es gilt die Sächsische Archivbenutzungsverordnung (SächsGVBl. Jg.2003, Bl.-Nr. 4 S. 79)

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