Pre-1900 German Postcard Printers
Introduction
The listing is not meant to be complete. All firms listed (in alphabetical order) either were contract printers for customers abroad and/or publishers exporting own cards with imprints in diff. languages. Some big in topo cards others specialised in greeting/subject cards, few did both.
An asterisk (*) indicates that information on this firm was previously published in TPA.
Make sure to check also the TPA Articles Download section/the three sub categories. when searching for a particular business.
In case the issue in question is not in stock anymore, the data not found in download section, it could be made available to interested persons.
Names in red colour = link to own page / article available as pdf-file. The latter option still not fully up-to-date, however.
Another lists of companies active in post-1900 years found on next page. Not considered were names of "jobbers" (middlemen) working under own name, sometimes internationally, but had no own printing facilities. Some of them popular with collectors today.
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Early German Postcard Printers
Alphons Adolph, Passau *
AG für Kunstdruck, Dresden-Niedersedlitz *
Georg Alpers jun., Hannover
F. Baerwolff, Greifwald
Selmar Bayer, Berlin *
Berliner Kunstdruck- u. Verlagsanstalt vorm. A. u. C. Kaufmann, Berlin *
Berliner Phototyp. Institut (Rob. Prager), Berlin *
J.C. Berke & Co., Frankfurt a.M. *
Gerh. Bluemlein & Co., Frankfurt*
Bruckmann‘sche Buch- u. Kunstdruckerei, Munich
Heinr. & Aug. Bruening, Hanau a.M.
Bruno Buerger & Ottilie, Leipzig
Ed. Buettner & Co., Berlin *
Dietz’sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Coburg *
B. Dondorf, Frankfurt*
C. Aug. Droesse, Berlin
Erste Oberlausitzer Lichtdruck- u. Photograph. Kunstanstalt (Johannes Beyer), Zittau/Grottau *
Erste Schlesische Lichtdruck- u. Graph. Kunstanstalt, A. Fabian & Co., Breslau *
Aug. Finkenrath Soehne, Barmen *
(Paul) Finkenrath & Grasnick, Berlin (PFB) *
Frankfurter Lichtdruckanstalt Kumpf & Wiesbaden, Frankfurt *
August Frey, Frankfurt *
Ph. Frey & Co., Frankfurt *
Carl Garte, Leipzig *
Louis Glaser, Leipzig *
Graphische Gesellschaft, Berlin *
Greiner & Pfeifer, Stuttgart
Wilhelm Greve, Berlin *
W. Hagelberg, Berlin
Carl Otto Hayd, Munich *
Heymann & Schmidt, Berlin
Wilh. Hoffmann, Dresden *
Franz Humar, Munich
Illert & Ewald, Gr.-Steinheim *
Rob. Kathmann & Co., Leipzig *
Kornsand & Co., Frankfurt/M.
Knackstedt & Naether, Hamburg *
Louis Koch, Halberstadt *
Koch & Palm, Elberfeld *
Kretzschmar & Schatz, Meissen *
Kunstanstalt (vorm. G.W. Seitz) AG, Wandsbek *
Kunstanstalt u. Druckereien AG, Kaufbeuren and Munich
Lautz & Isenbeck, Darmstadt *
Carl Leykum, Munich
Lith.-artist. Anstalt München (vorm. Gebr. Obpacher), Muenchen *
Littauer & Boysen, Berlin *
Mehner & Maas, Leipzig *
Meissner & Buch, Leipzig *
Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, Steglitz-Berlin *
J.C. Metz, Frankfurt a.M. *
H. Meyer, Halberstadt *
J. Miesler, Berlin *
E. Nister, Nürnberg
Richard Oschatz, Chemnitz
Emil Pinkau & Co., Leipzig *
Paul Pittius, Berlin *
Regel & Krug, Leipzig *
Roemmler & Jonas, Dresden *
Adolf A. Rosenblatt, Frankfurt *
O. Schaefer & Scheibe Nachf., Berlin
Edgar Schmidt, Dresden *
Wilhelm Schütz, Eisenach
E.A. Schwerdtfeger & Co., Berlin *
Stengel & Co. / Stengel & Markert, Dresden *
Paul Süss AG ("Erika"), Dresden *
Karl O. Thomas, Berlin *
H. Volk, Heilbronn
Th. Wendisch, Berlin
Weylandt & Bauchwitz, Berlin
Wezel & Naumann, Leipzig *
Wolfrum & Hauptmann, Nuernberg
Max Victor, Cologne *
Zedler & Vogel, Darmstadt
Moritz Zobel, Dresden
Zoeke & Mittmeyer, Berlin
