Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn
The mountain town Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn is one of the oldest publishers of Silesia . It was founded in 1732 in the Silesian capital Wroclaw and was based there until 1945. Bergstadtverlag was owned for exactly 30 years (01/01/1980 - 31/12/2009) by the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, founded in 1952 and recognized as a public foundation since 1975, with its headquarters in Würzburg and its current headquarters in Görlitz . From the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century the company was called Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn .
history
The printer, publisher and bookseller Johann Jacob Korn (1702–1756) founded a publishing company in 1732 and opened a bookstore in Breslau in 1732, where he published a. a. scientific works. On October 22, 1741, Korn received the newspaper privilege from the Prussian king and later sovereign and supreme duke of Silesia, Frederick II of Prussia, and founded the Privileged Silesian State, War and Peace Newspaper , later the Schlesische Zeitung , which first appeared on January 3 Published in 1742. He was also active for the Prussian king. The edicts, ordinances, patents and regulations issued by Friedrich II, which affected the Duchy of Silesia, were printed by the Korn publishing house.
After the death of his father (1756) Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (1739–1806 ) took over the company from his father in 1762 and called it Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn . In addition to German-language publications, this began to publish literature in Polish for the market in Poland and in other languages of Eastern Europe. In 1790 his son Johann Gottlieb Korn took over the company.
On April 1, 1914, Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn was established as a sub-division after the writer Paul Keller (1873–1932) switched to the Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn publishing house with his magazine “Die Bergstadt”.
After the expulsion of the Germans from Silesia after 1945, but probably before the confiscation of the property of the publishing house (including its printing works) in Wroclaw by the Polish state in September 1949, the publishing house settled under the direction of Joachim Friedrich Konrad Zeuschner (1904– 1979) first settled in Gera, then (from around 1950) in Munich. Only the “Bergstadtverlag” section of the Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn publishing house was continued. In 1974 JFK Zeuschner acquired the publishing house from the Bergmann-Korn community of heirs and continued to run it as the sole owner until his death in 1979.
On January 1st, 1980 the Bergstadtverlag was taken over by the “Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien” (based in Würzburg). On January 1, 2010, the publishing house was sold again by the foundation.
Today the Bergstadtverlag is located in Görlitz and mainly publishes literary and cultural-historical books, travel books and photo books.
Publications
Many long-standing journals and magazines were published by (Bergstadt-) Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn. Including:
- Schlesische Illustrierte Zeitung (previously illustrated weekly supplement of the Schlesische Zeitung )
- Silesian Provincial Gazettes
- Silesian newspaper
- Silesian Provincial Hymnbook
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Schmid: Greetings for the ceremony 50 years of the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 579-581.
