Bauer Made in Germany Proof press

I am helping to clean up a printshop and found buried under boxes this proof press. Only marking i could find was near the knob. ” Bauer made in Germany”. If anyone can help me identify this press I would appreciate it. I have some problems finding it on the web.
Thanks
Daan
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It may have been made by Koenig & Bauer AG only a guess on my part, They did make sheet feed letterpress machines so a proof press would seem logical. It seems to be hard finding out about german machines. I guess two world wars and having the crap blown out of the factories they where made in would not help. I took this from their website.

History
1926 - 1950
1928 Würzburg
Production starts on the Egli, a three-colour sheetfed gravure press.
1928 Frankenthal
The Europa, a new cylinder press available in 15 different formats, goes into production.
1929 Planeta
The Radebeul factory launches the Planeta-Quinta. (output 4,500 s/h.)
1931 Würzburg
Dr. Hans Bolza becomes managing director of Koenig & Bauer.
1932 Würzburg
KThe company adds two sheetfed gravure presses, the Frankonia and Tiepolo, plus a high-speed letterpress machine, the Rex, to its product range.
1932 Planeta
The Radebeul company launches the world’s first four-colour sheetfed offset press, the Planeta-Deca.
1932 Frankenthal
Shipment of the first 32-page newspaper press, to Ullstein, a Berlin publishing house.
1935 Planeta
The Planeta Super Quinta is upgraded to 6,000 s/h.
1945 Würzburg/Frankenthal/Planeta
The factories in Würzburg, Frankenthal and Radebeul are completely destroyed.
1945 Planeta
The manufacturing equipment is dismantled and Planeta Druckmaschinenwerk virtually ceases to exist.
1948 Planeta
On July 1 Planeta makes a fresh start under a new name, VEB Druckmaschinenwerk Planeta.

Thanks for this. I found the numbers on the press,
Year is 1964,
Number;1508.
Model; Super Royal Nr; 10
19 X 27
Bauer Presses Inc, New York
This is what Is on the press, and on the front; KORREX
Thanks for the information, Any idea what a machine like this would be worth, its in bad shape, stored for about 10 years and dirty.
Dont know if it works.
Thanks again
Daan

Good thing I said it was a guess was not even close with age or make. One for sale on this site should be some help as to what it is worth in working condition www.machineseeker.com/A701506.html

Bauer Presses Inc, New York was ac ompany that imported type and machines from Europe. Korrex is one of the most common proof presses on the Continent. Same kind of quality as the Vandercook. They sell for between 250 and 1000 Euros.

And I forgot this, Korrex presses were and are still build by Max Simmel in Stuttgart. They specialize is offset proofing presses and other equipment. But the company still exists. The presses came in different sizes and did bear the name of the German cities. Stuttgart (33 x 44 cm), Berlin, Hamburg etc. A lot of the private pres printers in the Netherlands print on these machines.

Thanks for the help in getting more info regarding this press. I added some pictures of the press. I guess the weight to be around 2000 Lb??
Thanks again.
Daan

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If you want to get more information about the press, you can ghave a look at the website of Drukwerk in de Marge, in the Netherlands. This weekend the renewed website will go up, and by clicking on ‘drukkers’ (printers), you will get a list of the active members. By clicking on their names, you will get a list of machines they possess and by clicking on for example “Korrex Stuttgart’, a lst of all the owners. E-mail them for more information, or better even, send a message to Sander Pinkse, the webmaster and he will include it on the site.

Chrisxprinter: most German factories were up and running again within five years after the end of WW II. Marshall aid and the wish of the American government not to have a repeat of history (bitterness over payments after WW I paved the way for Hitler) saw to this. German industry was thus able to supply Europe immediately with quality material. I owned a copy of National geographic from 1948, containing a reportage on the rise out of the ashes of Germany. The journalist was astonished to see the speed at which the country had recovered. Another important factor was that the USA wanted to keep Germany out of the influence of Communist Russia. It was in their own interest to rebuild the country, its infrastructures and its industry. Typefoundries were supplying again in 1946!

Thomas: Do you think Koenig & Bauer AG would have been manufacturing more than printing machines during the war and that is why they bombed. The company history from 1935-1945 shows no mile stones in press development.
Sorry for getting of the track of the original post.

Thomas

This is tangent but this might not be how it went down at first. Initially, postwar, the US and Roosevelt wanted to turn Germany into an agrarian based economy and did their best to prevent any industrialization. It was only after a plea from Churchill that doing this was like chaining Europe to a skeleton that the US relented. Roosevelt’s famous statement that German citizens were starving to death under post-war policy… so what.

Gerald

Thank you Gerald for this. Didn’t know that part of the (hi)story.

Thanks all for the info, and the history lesson, and the Dutch website looks good, I am Dutch so no problem reading the site and learning about the letterpress community in the old country.
Thanks all for the information you all gave me. Looking to sell the press as i have no experience and knowledge to restore a press like this.
greetings and Thanks again for all your help.
Daan de waal

Gerald,
I think you mean Truman, since Roosevelt died before the war ended and could not have made a “post-war” policy statement? What is your source for the statement?
Dave

Dave,
It was called »Morgenthau-Plan«.

Thanks, Max!
I should have read more before responding. I’m glad that the plan was revised after the war and that Germany was able to make items out of metal, like VWs! :-)

Hello Daan.
I have this same press, which I imported from the Netherlands four years ago. Mine is the 50cm x70cm “Berlin” Model II, number 3709, manufactured in Pforzheim Germany in 1967 by Max Simmel Maschinenfabrik. This company still supplies the parts for the press - I was even able to get from them the machine manual complete with exploded diagrams in order to identify some small parts, all of which they were able to supply as well as the tools. If it is determined that any parts are needed, do have the press’ new owner contact Peter Gafiuk ([email protected]) and Monika Blanc ([email protected]) at Max Simmel. They will be happy to supply any parts for the press restoration.
I’ve attached a few photos of my press, showing the cylinder and ink train, and then my restoration of the ink train showing three new forme rollers and the forme roller clutch mechanism and the vibrators’ worm gear mechanism. The press is superbly engineered and built, and well worth restoring. Mine was built to the Dutch height-to-paper .978”, so with appropriate stainless steel bedplates I use both Anglo-American and Didot types.
- Pierre Ranger
Atelier Locomotive

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