Steyrermühl group
The Steyrermühl Group was an important Austrian media group in the 19th and 20th centuries , which included paper manufacturing (in the Steyrermühl district of the Upper Austrian municipality of Laakirchen ) as well as printing companies, newspapers and book publishers.
history
The Steyrermühl paper and publishing company was a stock corporation founded in 1872 by August von Barber and Moritz Szeps to operate the paper manufacture, the printing trade and to carry out the publishing business, in particular for the publication of periodicals.
The Steyrermühl AG published, among other things, the highly profitable Neue Wiener Tagblatt and the Neue Wiener Abendblatt, which Szeps had brought into the company . From 1923 the group also edited the Tagblatt-Bibliothek , a successful book series.
Towards the end of the Danube Monarchy , Rudolf Sieghart , the head of the Bodencreditanstalt , succeeded in bringing the Steyrermühl concern under his personal influence. Especially in the 1920s, the group was controversial among social democrats because of Sieghart's clearly anti-Marxist policy and the support of the Heimwehr and the Christian Social Party. 1938 had Tagblatt from Steyrermühl to a Nazi , close by society be delivered. The Steyrermühl AG retired as a newspaper publisher.
After 1945, thanks to the benevolence of the Soviet occupying power, the KPÖ succeeded in leasing the modern printing operations of the "Ostmärkische Zeitungsverlag", which the Nazi company had taken over from the Steyrermühl concern in 1938 through "Aryanization", for its Globus concern. After an interim phase in which the two major banks, Österreichische Länderbank and Creditanstalt , which were nationalized at the time , were involved, the Steyrermühl group became 90 percent owned by the then trade union bank BAWAG .
In the course of the internationalization of paper production, the paper factory in Laakirchen , Upper Austria , came into German ownership in 1996 (see Haindl Papier , Papierfabrik Steyrermühl AG), then from 2001 into Finnish ownership (see UPM-Kymmene , Steyrermühl GmbH). In the course of several restructurings, part of the former industrial facilities was turned into a museum. The Steyrermühl paper-making museum is now housed in the historic factory halls of the Steyrermühl paper factory, where paper and pulp were produced from 1868 to 1988.
The Steyrermühl paper factory in an advertisement for the Austrian Illustrated Newspaper (Kaiser anniversary number, December 2, 1908)
literature
- Herbert Matis , Andreas Resch, Dieter Stiefel (ed.): Entrepreneurship in the field of tension between politics and society . Entrepreneurial activities from a historical perspective. Contributions collected in honor of Alice Teichova , Münster - Vienna Lit Verlag 2010.
- Franz Mathis : Big Business in Austria: Austrian Large Companies in Briefs , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1987, p. 302, ISBN 3-7028-0256-8 .
- Neues Wiener Tagblatt, special supplement to May 31, 1931, p. 75 ANNO
Web links
- Paper Museum website
- For takeover in 2001
- Eigner-Resch on the focus in: Entrepreneurship in the field of tension between politics and society
- From big business in Austria: large Austrian companies . Franz Mathis, p. 301 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938 , Böhlau, Vienna 1985, Volume 1, ISBN 3-205-07258-8 , ISBN 3-412-05585-9 .
- ^ Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria: Austrian Large Enterprises in Briefs , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1987, p. 302, ISBN 3-7028-0256-8 .