Alfred Kröner Publishing House

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Alfred Kröner Publishing House
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1904
Seat Stuttgart
management Alfred Klemm
Branch Publishing
Website www.kroener-verlag.de

The Alfred Kröner Verlag is a German publishing house from Stuttgart .

history

Alfred Kröner Verlag was founded in Stuttgart in 1904 by Alfred Kröner , son of Adolf von Kröner . In 1907 the publishing house moved to Leipzig . In 1922 Wilhelm Klemm became managing director of the publishing house. During the time of National Socialism , Klemm was banned from working (1937). The company headquarters then became Stuttgart again. In 1950 Arno Klemm and Walter Kohrs took over the management. The literary historian Gero von Wilpert was chief editor of the house from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1989 the management of the publishing house was expanded to include Imma Klemm; In 2004 Elke Linsenmayer and Alfred Klemm took over responsibility. In 2019 the publisher received the German Publishing Award .

program

The publishing program includes over 500 titles. Above all, overall presentations, reference works and classics are published. The publisher's authors included a. Wilhelm Wundt , David Friedrich Strauss , Émile Durkheim , Friedrich Nietzsche (see Nietzsche edition ), Karl Heinemann , Ernst Haeckel , Karl Marx , Franco Volpi , Gero von Wilpert , Hadumod Bußmann , Johan Huizinga and Fritz Martini .

literature

  • Dagmar Olzog, Johannes Hacker (ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers . 14th edition, Verlag moderne industrie, Landsberg am Lech 2001, ISBN 3-478-38764-7 , p. 179.

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