Moritz Diesterweg publishing house
The Moritz Diesterweg publishing house is a publishing brand for educational media and is now part of the school book publishers of the Westermann Group in Braunschweig . The Diesterweg program includes textbooks and digital media for all types of schools. The focus is on primary school subjects and foreign languages.
history
The publishing house was founded in Frankfurt in 1873 by Moritz Diesterweg . Moritz was the youngest son of Adolph Diesterweg . In 1860 he bought the Jo bookstore . Chr. Hermann'sche assortment and commission bookstore on Zeil No. 15 in Frankfurt. His wife Auguste became an authorized signatory there. In the period that followed, Diesterweg increasingly concentrated on publishing books. Among other things, he included his father's books in the publishing program, thereby laying the foundations for the schoolbook program.
In 1873 the Diesterweg couple separated from the product range and continued the publishing house under the name Moritz Diesterweg with a focus on school books and education . Son Emil became a partner in the publishing house, but died in December 1905 at the age of 41. The company founder also died shortly afterwards.
The two widows sold the business, which employed four people, to the bookseller Erich Herbst. Under his leadership, the publishing house rose to join the ranks of the major publishing houses of the 20th century and had more than 100 employees. At that time, the publishing program focused on grammar schools and comprehensive schools, and there on the humanities subjects.
The Moritz Diesterweg Verlag archive was destroyed together with the publishing house during the Second World War. For the year 1937 (addendum: March 1938) there was a "joint directory of books" with the Otto Salle publishing house and the völkischer Armanen publishing house in its 7th edition, which suggests at least economic ties. The series Das Reich im Werden has been published since 1933 . Workbooks in the service of political education in the publishing house, 1934 Otto Höfler's habilitation thesis Cultic Secret Societies of the Teutons (Vol. 1).
In 1995 the then Schroedel Verlag acquired the Diesterweg Verlag. In 2002 Diesterweg was taken over by the Westermann Group together with Schroedel and has since been continued as an imprint .
Products
The building blocks series has been a concept for German and material lessons in primary schools since the mid-1980s. In addition, Diesterweg is also relocating the series Konfetti for beginners' lessons and Flex and Flo as well as Flex and Flora for math and German lessons.
literature
- Georg Jäger (Ed.): Verlag Moritz Diesterweg. Stages of a school book publisher from its foundation until today. 2 volumes, Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1993/2003.