Woellmer Type Foundry

Wöllmer Type Foundry

Former type	Defunct
Industry	Type foundry
Founded	1854
Founder	Wilhelm Wöllmer
Defunct	1938
Headquarters	Germany
Key people	Wilhelm Wöllmer

The Wöllmer Type Foundry was founded by black-letter and script type designer Wilhelm Wöllmer. Wöllmer was first assistant in the commercial type foundry of Eduard Haenel. Wöllmer founded his own company in 1854 in Berlin as a commercial printing business. Ten years later, in 1864, he supplemented the business by opening a type foundry which remained in operation until 1938.

Typefaces

• Series 1-6 (1905)
• Atlantis Grotesk (1931)
• Attraktion (1925, Wöllmer)
• Barberina (1925, Wöllmer)
• Berliner Gothic (1910, Wöllmer)
• Berliner Gotisch (1909)
• Berolina (1930, Wöllmer)
• Boldrini (1902)
• Breite magere Kolonial (1911)
• Breite Magere Medieval (1894)
• Consul (1903)
• Deutsche Reichsfraktur (before 1925)
• Deutsche Reichs-Schrift (1915, Arthur Pestner)
• Drescher Eilschrift (1934, Arno Drescher)
• Empire Messing (1910s)
• Favorit (c. 1900)
• Fette Freihand Ornamente (1903)
• Fette Globus (1898)
• Fette Zabel Antiqua (Lucian Zabel)
• Freihand-Linien (1901)
• Freihand-Ornamente (1901)
• Gabriel (1938, Hans Möhring)
• Goethe Fraktur (1905)
• Halbfette Transita (1904)
• Jewel (1908)
• Jochheim Deutsch (1934, Konrad Jochheim)
• Kartenschrift Feodora (1925)
• Kartenschrift Gerda (1915)
• Kolonial (1904), also sold as Columbia by Amsterdam and as Buffalo by the H.C. Hansen Type Foundry of Boston.
• Lessing Antiqua (1908)
• Lessing Antiqua (1908)
• Mercedes (1904)
• Mercedes Antiqua (1904, Heinrich Wieynck)
• Reiher Grotesk (1904)
• Reuß-Schrift
• Römische Initialen
• Runde Buchgotisch (ca. 1900)
• Schattierte Grotesk
• Senats Antiqua (1920s)
• Siegfried (c. 1900)
• Uncial-Gotisch (c. 1900)
• Wöllmer Antiqua (1907, Wieynck)
• Wöllmer Fraktur (1937, Erich Meyer)
• Zabel Roman (1928-30, Zabel)