Carl Ernst Poeschel
Aeltestesbewahrt mit Treue, Freundlich aufgefasstes Neue. . . . —Goethe The destruction of the firm of Poeschel & Trepte in November 1943 and the death of Carl Ernst Poeschel five months later marked the end of a career which more than any other had helped to bring German printing back into the mainstream of a European tradition. [...]