Doug Wilson on Nostr: I’ve know for a while that the German Linotype headquarters (Mergenthaler ...
I’ve know for a while that the German Linotype headquarters (Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik) building was in East Germany, but today I learned that it was *just barely* in East Berlin. By like, only a couple blocks!
See the maps that show the Berlin Wall in yellow and pink, which divided the city.
HISTORY: After WWII, Linotype moved their HQ down to Frankfurt to be next to D. Stempel, who had been making their brass matrices since 1900.
This is why Linotype was eventually in Frankfurt, then Eschborn, and finally Bad-Homburg before being acquired by Monotype Imaging in 2006 and moving the HQ back to Berlin in 2019.
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