Bergmoser + Höller Verlag
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 6 ° 2 ′ 59.6 ″ E
| Bergmoser + Höller Verlag AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | Aachen - Richterich , Germany |
| management | Andreas Bergmoser, Peter Tiarks |
| Number of employees | approx. 70 |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.buhv.de |
| As of February 4, 2019 | |
Bergmoser + Höller is an independent Christian teaching material publisher and specialist magazine publisher based in Aachen . It was founded in 1970 by the publisher Josef Bergmoser and the journalist Karl Höller as a civil law company (GbR) and currently publishes more than 35 subscription publications with around 70 employees, not including the products of the two publishers Hutt Verlag and Ökotopia, which were taken over in 2012 Publisher .
Publishing history
Josef Bergmoser and Karl Höller laid the foundation stone of the publishing house on October 25, 1970 with the parish letter material service Image - the image of our parish . A year later, the young publishing house as a civil law society (GbR) took over the Sunday services, a service aid for Catholic priests, and thus opened a range of liturgical and pastoral publications based on the concept of practical help - in the following years also for Protestant pastors . Later, the publication of practical material services was also extended to the areas of school, preschool / kindergarten and work with the elderly.
Josef Bergmoser has dedicated himself exclusively to his own publishing house since 1973, while Karl Höller joined the program in 1982 as a full-time managing director. The GmbH, notarized in 1979 by the married couple Josef and Martha Bergmoser as well as Karl and Inge Höller, moved into a building on Karl-Friedrich-Strasse on the site of the former Carl-Friedrich mine in Aachen- Richterich . In 2001 the shareholders converted their GmbH into a stock corporation .
In addition, the establishment of three branches served to further support publishing tasks: Image Druck GmbH (1973), Bergmoser + Höller Agency for Communication Consulting and Social Marketing GmbH (1981) and graphodata AG (1987), an agency for all print preparation services and meanwhile also new media.
The generation change in the company's management began in 1995 when Andreas Bergmoser took over as commercial director in succession to his father. In 2003 Peter Enno Tiarks took over the program management from Karl Höller. The founders of the publishing house Josef Bergmoser and Karl Höller then switched to the supervisory board . In his office as chairman of the supervisory board, Höller was replaced on April 22, 2016 by the former managing director of the Handelsblatt publishing group in the specialist media division, Uwe Hoch, who has been a member of the supervisory board since 2005. Thomas Wirth, Professor of Online Media at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mosbach (DHBW Mosbach), has been a member of the Supervisory Board since April 2015. His work focuses on the topics of online media and innovation. Since April 2016, Simone Höller, producer of the TV and film production company FFP New Media GmbH, has also been a member of the supervisory board as an assessor.
At the end of 2010, the publisher and founder established the non-profit, independent Bergmoser + Höller Foundation .
On January 1, 2012, Bergmoser + Höller Verlag AG took over the business activities of the Stuttgarter Hutt Verlag from its founder and owner Stephan Hutt. The Hutt Verlag remained based in Stuttgart and will be continued as an imprint in the Bergmoser + Höller program.
On June 26, 2012, the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels announced the takeover of Ökotopia-Verlag by Bergmoser + Höller Verlag AG on July 1, 2012. As of January 1, 2019, Ökotopia Verlag has also been listed as an imprint of Bergmoser + Höller Verlag AG.
On January 1, 2019, Bergmoser + Höller AG founded Bergmoser + Höller Lern GmbH. Their subject matter is the development, organization, distribution and implementation of educational advice and training services.
Founder of the publishing house
Josef Bergmoser
Josef Bergmoser, who was born in the Sauerland on April 15, 1927 , came into the publishing industry through a commercial traineeship at the daily newspaper Westfalenpost in Hagen. In 1957 he joined the Kölnische Rundschau in Cologne . During this time Bergmoser was involved - inspired by the Second Vatican Council - in the Pater Leppich Circle and Action 365 and became a member of the Stephanus community with its pronounced lay spirituality. Bergmoser moved to Aachen as the head of advertising for Leben & Erziehing at the Volkspädagogischer Verlag, today's Einhardverlag, before finally switching to the papal work Missio in 1970 . There he built up the missio-aktuell publishing house and met Karl Höller, the founding secretary of the Catholic Media Council - media planning for developing countries. V. (Cameco). Josef Bergmoser died on December 1, 2017.
Karl R. Höller
Karl R. Höller was born on April 24, 1937 in Engelskirchen . He studied philosophy, theology, ethnology and missiology at the Philosophical-Theological University SVD St. Augustin . He gained his first journalistic experience in 1961 as a reporter for the Kölnische Rundschau / Siegkreis-Rundschau before he switched to the University of Münster . In addition to his studies, including journalism, Höller completed a traineeship in 1962 at the Münster diocese newspaper Kirche + Leben , where he worked as an editor until 1969. While still a doctoral student in journalism, he co-founded the journal Communicatio Socialis in 1968 - for journalism in church and world, which he edited for many years. After his work as the founding secretary of the Catholic Media Council (Cameco) based in Aachen, Höller moved to the international catholic mission organization missio in 1971 , where he remained as general secretary until 1982. He died in February 2020.
Bergmoser + Höller Foundation
At the end of 2010, the publishing director and the publisher's founder certified the private, non-profit and independent Bergmoser + Höller Foundation . The aim of the foundation is to identify innovative Christian - Catholic and Protestant - projects and initiatives that serve the effectiveness of the biblical message in society, to reward it and to support it financially. The award-winning initiatives will be accompanied by journalists in the following period in order to stimulate and encourage groups throughout the German-speaking area. The initial capital of the foundation was EUR 500,000 , the foundation assets were invested to EUR 1 million over the next five years. In addition, the foundation receives grants and donations from individuals and institutions.
The foundation is currently expanding its structures and is looking for partner institutions that will observe the initiatives at the community base in their work and discover new developments at an early stage. The current board of the foundation consists of Messrs. Andreas Bergmoser and Peter E. Tiarks.
Annunciation Price
The foundation's ecumenically oriented Annunciation Prize is endowed with EUR 5000 for the first, EUR 3000 for the second and EUR 2000 for the third prize and was awarded for the first time in 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bergmoser + Höller takes over Ökotopia. In: boersenblatt.net. June 26, 2012, accessed October 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Josef Bergmoser died at the age of 90. In: boersenblatt.net. December 6, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017.
- ^ Gregor von Fürstenberg : missio mourns Karl R. Höller. In: missio Aachen. February 20, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Committees / Board of Directors. In: buh-stiftung, accessed on April 21, 2020.
- ↑ FAQ's. Who can apply? In: buh-stiftung.de, accessed on April 21, 2020.
- ↑ FAQ's. What does the price of annunciation mean? In: buh-stiftung.de, accessed on April 21, 2020.
- ↑ Previous winners. (2012–2018) In: buh-stiftung, accessed on April 21, 2020. - The Church . No. 9, February 26, 2017, p. 9, column 4 (section People & Quotes ).