Gebr. Mann Verlag

The Gebr. Verlag is a scientific book publisher based in Berlin , of the disciplines of art history , architectural history and archeology specializes.

history

In 1890 the Gebr. Mann Verlag was founded as a printing company with an affiliated publishing house by the brothers Albert and Adolf Mann in Dresden . In 1917 Hermann Hartmann († 1947) acquired the company, in 1919 his older son Kurt Hartmann (* December 12, 1895; † January 1971) became a partner. In 1920 the publishing house moved to Berlin. In 1924, Hermann Hartmann's younger son, Otto Hartmann (* July 30, 1898, † November 11, 1951) became a partner. Under the direction of Kurt Hartmann, Gebr. Mann Verlag quickly became a respected specialist publisher for art history and archeology. In 1963 Heinz Peters (* 1920) became managing director.

In 1964 the Gebr. Mann Verlag founded a subsidiary together with the German Association for Art History, the German Publishing House for Art History . In 1976, Axel Springer AG bought Gebr. Mann Verlag and about twenty other art-scientific publishers, including a. the Dietrich Reimer Verlag . The two companies were merged under the name Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH.

In recent times the publisher has been cooperating with numerous scientific institutions, academies and universities. The Gebr. Mann-Verlag publishes, among other things, the yearbooks and other series of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , and extensive corpus and catalog works are also published. Hans-Robert Cram has been the manager since 2006.

literature

Fifty years Gebr. Mann, Brothers Hartmann, Berlin . Berlin 1967
Würffel, Reinhard: Lexicon of German publishers from A – Z. 1071 publishers from 1545–1945. 2800 publisher's signets. Berlin 1999.

Web links

Internet presence of the publisher

Footnotes

↑ There may be a connection to Hermann Beyer and Sons Verlag Langensalza. The educational publishing company "Hermann Beyer & Sons" in Langensalza was founded in 1857 by Heinrich Kaiser and Karl Hentschel as "Verlag-Comptoir von H. Kaiser and K. Hentschel" and taken over by Hermann Beyer in 1867, now "Verlags-Comptoir von Hermann Beyer" and, after he had his two sons Hermann junior in 1873. and Albin had taken on as a partner, from January 1, 1876 as "Hermann Beyer & Sons". When Hermann sen. died on February 3, 1877, the widow Friederike and then on January 1, 1879 his son-in-law Friedrich Mann, who had been close to the business for more than a decade, became partners. There is therefore also the company name “Beyer & Mann”, see About publishers in Langensalza . Albin Beyer died on September 1, 1880. His youngest brother Hugo took his place on July 1, 1885. On January 1, 1890, Friederike Beyer resigned from the business; on July 8, 1891 Hermann junior also left. through death. On April 1, 1895, the son of Friedrich Mann, Georg, was accepted as a partner. Up here to: Rudolf Schmidt, German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 1. Berlin / Eberswalde 1902. In 1903 Albert Mann also became a partner - this is possibly the same Albert Mann who founded the printing works in Dresden in 1890. The publisher name Beyer still exists today for educational small fonts and text editions. The connection between the two publisher names, Beyer and Mann, continued at that time: Goebbels ' speech at the 1933 NSDAP party congress, Racial Issues and World Propaganda , was published and distributed as a high-volume reprint in 1934 by "Hermann Beyer, Langensalza". The 2nd edition in 1937 appeared under the same publisher name in a series: Writings on Political Education, Volume 6 (of 12) and at the same time with the further title of Friedrich Mann's Pedagogical Magazine, Volume 1390.

[1] There may be a connection to Hermann Beyer and Sons Verlag Langensalza. The educational publishing company "Hermann Beyer & Sons" in Langensalza was founded in 1857 by Heinrich Kaiser and Karl Hentschel as "Verlag-Comptoir von H. Kaiser and K. Hentschel" and taken over by Hermann Beyer in 1867, now "Verlags-Comptoir von Hermann Beyer" and, after he had his two sons Hermann junior in 1873. and Albin had taken on as a partner, from January 1, 1876 as "Hermann Beyer & Sons". When Hermann sen. died on February 3, 1877, the widow Friederike and then on January 1, 1879 his son-in-law Friedrich Mann, who had been close to the business for more than a decade, became partners. There is therefore also the company name “Beyer & Mann”, see About publishers in Langensalza . Albin Beyer died on September 1, 1880. His youngest brother Hugo took his place on July 1, 1885. On January 1, 1890, Friederike Beyer resigned from the business; on July 8, 1891 Hermann junior also left. through death. On April 1, 1895, the son of Friedrich Mann, Georg, was accepted as a partner. Up here to: Rudolf Schmidt, German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 1. Berlin / Eberswalde 1902. In 1903 Albert Mann also became a partner - this is possibly the same Albert Mann who founded the printing works in Dresden in 1890. The publisher name Beyer still exists today for educational small fonts and text editions. The connection between the two publisher names, Beyer and Mann, continued at that time: Goebbels ' speech at the 1933 NSDAP party congress, Racial Issues and World Propaganda , was published and distributed as a high-volume reprint in 1934 by "Hermann Beyer, Langensalza". The 2nd edition in 1937 appeared under the same publisher name in a series: Writings on Political Education, Volume 6 (of 12) and at the same time with the further title of Friedrich Mann's Pedagogical Magazine, Volume 1390.